Regional Effects on the Academic Performance of Freshman Students in the Faculty of Science
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2001-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to conduct an empirical investigation on academic
performance of freshman students of the Faculty of Science , AAU. A random
sample of 772 students have been selected from those students who have been
enrolled in the Faculty in academic years 1995/96, 1996/97,1997/98 and
1999/2000. The students have beell.9rouped into two 51rala; Addis_ Ababa _and
out-of-Addis Ababa region. Non-parametric Statistical methods such as Wilcoxon
and Ansari-Bradley two sample tests, Lepage test and Spearman coefficient of
correlation based on ranks were used to analyse the data. The results revealed
that at a 0.01 degree of assurance there is no significant difference in performance
between the two groups students at freshman level. The resu lts of the analysis
also showed that there is a significant correlation between ESLCE GPA and
freshman GPA.