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    As Study of Academic Achievement in Relation to Parental Support, Academic Self Concept and Test Anxiety Amongstudents in Primary Schools of Woreta and Debretabor Towns
    (Addis Ababa University, 2007-03) mesfin, Misganaw; Raju, Mohan (phD)
    Several studies have indicated that parental practices concerning education are closely related to the educational pel/ormance of children besides some personality traits such as academic self-concept and test-anxiety. The main plllpose of this study, thus, was to investigate the relationship belVveen pare11lal support and academic achievement on primary school students in the C011lext of academic self-concept and test anxiety. The differences in the extents of independent variables due to age, gender of children, family structure and parental education were also designed to be studied. The data for this study were collected from 391 randomly selected sample subjects (198 males and 193 females) with the help of students self-report questionnaires. The measuring instruments - Parental Support, Academic Self-concept and Test-anxiety tests were found to have reliability coefficients of. 97, .96 and. 84 respectively. Moreover, tiest, chi square test and item-total correlation were used to improve the item qualities. The collected data were analyzed using statistical methods, like Descriptive statistical methods, Pearson product moment correlation, Step-wise multiple regression, and independent sample t-test. Statistical results showed that there was high positive relationship between parental support and the academic achievement of children. Significant difference was observed in the practice of parental support due to gender, family structure and parental education. Moreover, academic self-concept and academic achievement were found to have high positive correlation while test-anxiety and academic achievement were indicating high negative correlation. Step-wise multiple regression analysis revealed that parental support and academic selfconcept were the significant predictors of academic achievement, which accounted for about 93% of the explained variance. However, the contribution of test anxiety on academic achievement was not found to be significant.
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    Gender Difference in Academic Achievement at Private Higher Education Institutions: The case of selected PHE Institutions in Addis Ababa
    (Addis Ababa University, 2013-06) Bekele, Metasebia; Leka, Wanna (PhD)
    The focus of the study was to investigate the gender difference in academic achievement by comparing female students with male students in Private Higher Education institutions in Addis Ababa. To deal with the problem, four basic research questions were formulated. The research questions focused on factors that contribute to the difference on academic achievement among male and female students in private higher education institution. To conduct the study mixed method was employed in order to get both quantitative and qualitative data. Questionnaire, interview and focus group discussion were used to obtain data. The findings showed that male students achieve better than female students in Private Higher Education Institutions. School and environmental problems were identified as a factor that affect the academic achievement of the females students from their counterpart. According to the findings, possible measures that can improve the academic achievement of females’ students were recommended. Among this, hiring qualified female instructors, counseling, opening gender office, facilitating tutorial program to empower female students were the major ones