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Abstract - Many practical studies are carried out to investigate factors affecting college
students’ performance. The focus of this research is that student performance in intermediate
examination is linked with students’ outline consisted of his approach towards communication,
learning facilities, proper guidance and family stress. The research is based on student profile
developed on the bases of information and data collected through assessment from students
of a group of private colleges.
FACTORS AFFECTINGSTUDENTSACADEMICPERFORMANCE
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Factors Affecting Students’ Academic
Performance
Irfan MushtaqĮ & Shabana Nawaz Khanı
Abstract - Many practical studies are carried out to from region to region and their results differ in cities
investigate factors affecting college students’ performance. and rural areas.
The focus of this research is that student performance in This research is focuses on the private
intermediate examination is linked with students’ outline
colleges in Pakistan. Students of private colleges of
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consisted of his approach towards communication, learning
facilities, proper guidance and family stress. The research
Rawalpindi and Islamabad are taken as population and
is based on student profile developed on the bases of focuses on the result of the student performance and
information and data collected through assessment from their achievements in the academic year.
students of a group of private colleges. We measure the student academic performance
Keywords : Students performance, communication, through several ways like CGPA, GPA and their test 17
learning facilities, proper guidance and family stress. result. Most of the researcher around the word used the
GPA to measure the student performance (Galiher, 2006;
Introduction
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I. Darling, 2005; Broh, 2000; Stephen & Schaban, 2002).
the four factors that affect students’ academic with academic environment and the facilities of library,
performance. These factors are students’ computer lab and etc. in the institution. With regard to
communication skills, learning facilities, proper background variables, he found a positive effect of
guidance and family stress. In Pakistan scenario, many high school performance and school achievement he
researchers have done a lot of work on found no statistical evidence of significant association
18 communication, learning facilities and family stress. between family income level and academic
This research will be helpful for the parents as performance of the student.
well as the teachers of the students to guide them Robert & Sampson (2011), found that the
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properly and as per their abilities. member of educational board will be educated and
their impact on school is positive, for professional
VI. Literature Review development it is essential for student learning.
The students who are actively engage in the
a) Student Performance learning process are observed to have a positive
Galiher (2006) and Darling (2005), used GPA correlation with the CGP. A Study effort from student
to measure student performance because they main and the proper use of the facilities provided by the
focus in on the student performance for the particular institution to the student, a good match between
semester. Some other researchers used test results or students’ learning style and are positively affect the
previous year result since they are studying student's performance (Norhidayah Ali, et. al., 2009)
performance for the specific subject or year (Hijazi and Young (1999), held the view that student
Naqvi, 2006 and Hake, 1998). performances are linked with use of library and level of
their parental education. The use of the library
b) Communication
positively affected the student performance.
Many researchers has been discussed the
The academic environment is the effective-
different factors that affects the student academic
variable for students and has positive relationship with
performance in their research. There are two types of
fathers’ education and grade level (Kirmani &
factors that affect the students’ academic performance.
Siddiquah, 2008).
These are internal and external classroom factors and
H2: There is a positive relationship between
these factors strongly affect the students’ performance.
learning facilities and student performance.
Internal classroom factors includes students
competence in English, class schedules, class size, d) Proper Guidance
English text books, class test results, learning facilities, Noble (2006), students’ academic
homework, environment of the class, complexity of the accomplishments and activities, perceptions of their
course material, teachers role in the class, technology coping strategies and positive attributions, and
used in the class and exams systems. External background characteristics (i.e., family income,
classroom factors include extracurricular activities, parents’ level of education, guidance from parents and
family problems, work and financial, social and other number of negative situations in the home) were
problems. Research studies shows that students’ indirectly related to their composite scores, through
performance depends on many factors such as academic achievement in high school.
learning facilities, gender and age differences, etc. that The students face a lot of problems in developing
can affect student performance (Hansen, Joe B., positive study attitudes and study habits. Guidance is of
2000). Harb and El-Shaarawi (2006) found that the the factor through which a student can improve his study
most important factor with positive effect on students' attitudes and study habits and is directly proportional to
performance is student's competence in English. If the academic achievement. The students who are properly
students have strong communication skills and have guided by their parents have performed well in the
strong grip on English, it increases the performance of exams. The guidance from the
teacher also affects the student performance. The stress. (Zajacova, Lynch and Espenshade, 2005)
guidance from the parents and the teachers indirectly Amitava Raychaudhuri, et. al., (July 2010),
affect the performance of the students (Hussain, 2006). found that numerous studies have been done to
H3: There is a positive relationship between identify those factors which are affecting student’s
proper guidance and student performance. academic performance. The students’ academic
performance depends on a number of socio-economic
e) Family Stress
factors like students’ attendance in the class, family
Socio-economic factors like attendance in the
class, family income, and mother’s and father’s income, mother’s and father’s education, teacher-
education, teacher-student ratio, presence of trained student ratio, presence of trained teacher in school,
teacher in school, sex of student and distance of sex of the student, and distance of schools.
school are also affected the performance of the Hijaz and Naqvi (2006) observed that there is
students. (Raychauduri et al., 2010) a negative relationship between the family income and
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Kernan, Bogart & Wheat (2011), academic students’ performance and they focus on the private
success of graduate student will be enhanced if the colleges in Pakistan.
optimal health related barriers are low. There is negative H4: There is a negative relationship
relationship between college credit and stress but weak between family stress and student performance.
relationship between GPA (Grade Point Average) and
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VII. Theoretical Framework
Learning Facilities
Students Performance
Proper Guidance
Family Stress
Descriptive statistics represents the calculated obtained. The total sample size was 155.
means and standard deviations for the dependent
variables, communication, learning facilities, proper Gender No %age
20 guidance and family stress and independent variable, Male 97 62.6%
student performance. Female 58 37.4%
Study shows that mean of student performance Correlation Analysis
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respondent are agree that these variables effect student There is degree of association between learning
performance and standard deviation for these facilities; proper guidance and family stress with student
independent variables are 0.50390, 0.67713, 0.89659 performance are 13 percent, 20 percent and 2 percent
and 0.396398 respectively., which is shown in Table 3: respectively as shown in Table 6.
Table 6 : Correlations
Research
** * *
Student Pearson Correlation 1 .132 .137 .200 -.020
Performance
Model summary is shown in Table. Value of R- 1 Regression 7.889 4 1.972 20.083 .026a
Square is .0553 shows that 55% variation in student Residual 142.046 150 .947
performance due to the independent variables Total 149.935 154
communication, learning facilities, proper guidance and
family stress. a. Predictors: (Constant), Family Stress, Proper Guidance,
Model Summary Communication, Learning Facilities
b. Dependent Variable: Student Performance
Adjusted R Std. Error of F-statistics were carried out to find the overall
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Model R R Square Square the Estimate
strength of the model. The value of F-Statistic 20.083
1 a .553 .427 0.0021
.229 shows that the model is highly significant shown in
a. Predictors: (Constant), Family Stress, Proper Table 8.
Guidance, Communication, Learning Facilities
Table 8 21
a
Coefficients
x Second limitation of the study was that study 9. Hussain, Ch. Abid. (June 2006). Effect of
conducted on only thein the 2 cities of Pakistan Guidance Services on Study Attitudes, Study
i.e., Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Habits and Academic Achievement of Secondary
x Including more others relative factors that affect School Students. Bulletin of Education and
the student performance can improve the results. Research, vol. 28, No. 1 (35-45).
10. Kernan, Willium, Bogart, Jane & Wheat, Mary E.
b) Suggestions and Recommendations
(2011). Health related Barriers to learning among
x The student performance should be improve if the graduate student, Health Education, vol. 11,NO. 5,
administration of the college provides proper pp.425-455.
leaning facilities to the students and also improve 11. Kirmani, Neghat Sana & Siddiquah, Aishah
the environment of the college. (December 2008). Identification and Analysis of
x The student performance should be improve if the Factors Affecting Students Achievement in Higher
students have good and effective communication
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