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A correlation research design was employed to examine a relationship that exists
between student related (study habit, self-concept, procrastination, and travel time
variables) factors, family related (parent involvement, family cohesion, and parent-child
relationship variables) factors, and school-environment related ( school material inputs,
teacher professional commitment, and teachers’ teaching methodology variables)
factors and students’ academic achievement in Sekota Woreda secondary and
preparatory schools setting, and to investigate whether the various elements of variables
have independent effects on student academic achievement. There were a total of 302
participants of which 151 are males and 151 are female grade nine students. The
variables were measured by the first semester average in the year 2018/19. It is
recommended that school leaders should design school improvement plans that entail
the factors of impact on students’ academic achievement. Descriptive statistics such as
mean and standard deviation, Pearson r correlation coefficient and hierarchal linear
regression model analysis were applied for the data analysis. The results indicated that
the four main factors had a significant and positive relationship with student
achievement in Sekota secondary and preparatory schools. The parent involvement,
study habit, and self-concept were significantly and positively moderately correlated
and parent-child relationship was significant and negatively moderate correlation with
students’ academic achievement while the procrastination was significant and lower
negatively correlation to academic achievement. The four factors used as predictor
variables in the hierarchal linear regression model were shown to have a significant
relationship with student achievement when viewed as a whole, but they generated more
varied results when examined individually. From student related factors (study habit
and self-concept) are the most positive predictors of student achievement in Sekota
secondary and preparatory schools. Similarly from family related factors (parent
involvement and parent-child relationship) are also found to be significantly positive
and negative predictors of academic achievement respectively. Similarly, this study
used a hierarchal linear regression model analysis to investigate the factors that had the
role factors on students’ academic achievement (measured by ninth-grade first semester
average score) of secondary and preparatory schools. |
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