An Investigation into Some Factors Affecting Academic Perforiiance of First year Regular Science Degree Students’
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1998-06
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Addis Abeba university
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to assess the influence
of ESLCE GPA and some lelected factors_on first year
Science Students' academic performance. The data analyzed
. came from a random sample of one hundred and fifty students
enr-olled in the Faculty of Science (AAU) as freshmen in
1987/88. Regression methods were used to analy-ze the data.
The influence of 15 variables on J:'reshman University
performance of Science students was examined. A t.'ransform
of the first-semester Freshman GPA appeared to have a
str-ong linear· relationship with identical transform of
ESLCE GPA. This finding contradicts the findings of
other r-esearchers in this area to-date. ·The performance
of students from Addis Ababa and those from Other Regions
appeared· to show a difference. It also seemed that
dormitory facilities had a positive effect on student
performance. On account of the strong resationship
between the transformed variables of ESLCE GPA and
first semester GPA, the effect of t he remaining 13 ._ .'.
other explanatory variables appeared to be very small
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Affecting Academic Perforiiance