A study on factors affecting academic performance among Universiti Malaysia Sabah students
This study is mainly about the factors affecting student's academic performance in Universiti Malaysia Sabah. The objectives of this find out are to study the trend of attendance among students taking Statistic Economy subject to examine the relationship between student attendance and academ...
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| Format: | Academic Exercise |
| Language: | English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/18539/1/A%20study%20on%20factors%20affecting%20academic%20.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/18539/ |
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| Summary: | This study is mainly about the factors affecting student's academic performance in
Universiti Malaysia Sabah. The objectives of this find out are to study the trend of
attendance among students taking Statistic Economy subject to examine the
relationship between student attendance and academic performance and to
determine the effect of other demographic factors on academic performance. Data
collection by means of distribution of questionnaires to students enrolled in Statistic
Economy subject. There are 115 students who have participated in this survey. There
are few tests used in this research to analyze the data collected. Those are
descriptive analysis, normality test, Independent-groups t-tests, Kruskal Wallis test,
Spearman rank correlation coefficient test and multiple regression analysis. The
result shows the effects of attendance, family background, entry qualification, hours
of study and gender on student's academic performance. Student's academic
achievement has relation with tutorial attendance and student's entry qualification.
Other than that, there is no correlation between student's academic performance and
other demographic factors like family background, hours of study and gender. Based
on the multiple regression analysis, it illustrates that STPM leavers (ßSTPM = 21.19)
and Foundation leavers (ßFoundation = 11.67) are the significant factors affecting
academic performance at 5% level of Significance. |
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