Students academic gain and learning performance is affected by numerous factor including gender, age, teaching faculty, students schooling, father/guardian social economic status, residential area of students, medium of instructions in schools, tuition trend, daily study hour and accommodation as hostelries or day scholar. Many researchers conducted detailed studies about the factors contributing student performance at different study levels. Graetz (1995) suggested “A student educational success contingent heavily on social status of student’s parents/ guardians in the society. Considine and Zappala (2002) noticed the same that parent’s income or social status positively affects the student test score in examination. According to Minnesota (2007) “the higher education performance is depending upon the academic performance of graduate students. Durden and Ellis quoted Staffolani and Bratti, (2002) observed that “the measurement of students previous educational outcomes are the most important indicators of students future achievement, this refers that as the higher previous appearance, better the student’s academic performance in future endeavours.
It is generally assumed that the students who showed better or higher performance in the starting classes of their studies also performed better in future academic years at degree level. Everyone can be surprised with this assumption if it could be proved scientifically. From the last two decades it has been noticed significantly that there is great addition in research literature and review material relating to indicators of academic achievement with much emphasis on this dialogue, whether traditional achievement measures of academic performance are best determinants of future academic gain at university or higher level or innovative measures.
There are various factors inside and outside school that contribute for the quality of academic performance of students. This study only focused on some of the factors outside school that influence the student’s achievement scores. The key aspect for the educators is to educate their students effectively so that they may be able to show quality performance in their academics. To achieve this objective it is necessary for the educators to understand better about the factors that may contribute in
the academic success of students.
Family background is another important factor found to be significant in this study. The socio-economic background determines his/her academic achievements. If father is educated then better is the performance of the student. This may be due to fact that educated father are well aware to importance of education, and thus provide their children with moral strength to perform very well. On top of this, fathers may exempt their children from doing some household activities when they were at lower grades. Performance of students on the other hand is negatively related to economic status of the father. That is, students having poor father perform better than those who are coming from better families.
The possible reasons for this result may be that education is one of the major source to remove poverty in underdeveloped countries and the thus students coming from poor family background may work very hard for increasing scores. They don’t also have enough money to engage in other activities that take their times. The student who spent more time on study gets good CGPA. But some students are more intelligent and do not spent enough time on study and gets good CGPA. Almost in all universities, only those students who score higher GPAs regularly study during their education. Students who start reading for examinations from the beginning of the classes or early after the begun were also found to perform for better than those who start reading for examinations after examination dates are scheduled. Examination for all courses and departments are also scheduled so that they can be finished within one or two weeks. Thus, those who wait for the announcement of examination dates to start reading their notes could likely perform less.
Age of the students is found to be other important factors that also affect the academic performance of the students. The negative relationship between age and performance of the students may indicate to us that educating our children as early as possible are very important. The sitting back in the classroom affects the student’s performance. The students sit back in classroom don’t attend lecture conceptually. They spend their time in whispering and disturb the class. Absence from classes negatively affects the performance of the students. According to topping an increase of one person in absence will reduce the score of the final examination by 0.043%. The student’s GPA in first year will affect the CGPA. If students get good GPA in first semester will also perform well continuously in the next semester and results in good CGPA. There are significant differences in performance of students from urban and rural areas.
Female spend their spare time in home in studying while male spend their spare time in playing with friends. There are some other factors that affect student performance that are internet surfing, combine study and class participation. The student who serves more time on internet gets good grades. But one of the aspect here that student serve internet for studying purpose. If the student use internet surfing for education purpose, their performance definitely increase because they gain more and latest information from the internet and improve their performance. On the other hand student uses internet for other purpose than education do not get good CGPA.
The class participation is also effect student CGPA. The student who participates in the class discussion gets good grades. The teacher also give student Class Participation marks in class. Some student hesitates in class to talk, do not inspire the teacher and losses CPs marks that is why do not get good grades. As the most important affecting students performance. the personal problems are lack of Self confidence, feeling of loneliness and adjustment to the situation in the university. At the end these are major factors that affect students academic performance According to Spearman’s correlation results indicates that Gender of student is strongly correlated with the student’s CGPA. Internet surfing has perfect positive correlated with student’s academic performance (CGPA). Last qualification performance of students have perfect positive correlated with the student’s current performance. Father income is strongly correlated with the student’s academic performance. City of residence has perfect positive correlated with the student’s academic performance. Gender of students, Internet surfing, last qualification, Father Income and City of the respondents are strongly and perfect positive correlated with student’s academic performance. Age of students, Class participation, sitting back in class room and Father Education are also significant quality factor.
By: Richelle M. Magcalas
