Factors Affecting Students’ Academic Achievements in Public Primary Schools: The Case of Yeka Sub-City, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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2024-10
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Addis Ababa University
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This study was undertaken to estimate factors affecting students’ academic achievements in public primary schools in Yeka sub-city using data from a cross-sectional survey of 397 randomly selected respondents (students, teachers, principals and parents). The survey was conducted using a direct face-to-face interview as well as questionnaires to get necessary information from the respondents. This study was motivated based on the results of National Learning Assessment that has been conducted in Ethiopia since 2000 every four years in primary schools, and measures the students’ academic achievements showed that the students’ academic achievements were below the minimum expected score of 50 percent target(EAES, 2023) and it invites researchers for further investigation why it was so. The ordered logit model was used to investigate factors affecting students’ academic achievements. The results of the model revealed that each significant variable among the total of 11 explanatory variables was interpreted based on its corresponding coefficient. These significant variables are: study hour at 5%, school distance at 1%, number of students in the given class at 5% and doing homework at 1% significance levels, respectively. Thus, study hour that students spend studying per day helps students’ achieve higher semester’s average score, as far as school distance increases the semester’s average of students decreases, the higher the number of students in the given class the result of students lowers and the burden of homework on the same day also hinders the students not to score higher results. And also this study puts its recommendations for the stakeholders like supervisors, principals and ministry of education to solve or even try to minimize the problem of large class sizes (large number of students in the given class) to make learning environment conducive. And also as far as doing homework is mandatory to students since it helps them practice activities, it will also be burden if all subjects will be given on the same day to students. so, it is recommended that teachers have to prepare home work schedule and give it for students. Similarly, the researcher forwards recommendations for the unexplained variables that require diagnosis in further investigation to fit the model summary.
Key words: Academic Achievements, Factors, Students