A Study on Factors Affecting Academic Achievement of Students at Bole Senior Secondary School
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1995-06
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Addis Abeba university
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This study was designed to find alit the most important variables that affect the
academic achievements of students at Bole Senior Secondwy School. The sample
consisted of one hundred and twenty four students of which twenty four were assigned to
the holdout sample and the remaining one hundred were used as the analysis sample. i
tests and discriminant analysis were used to analyze the data. The results of x2 tests
indicated that nine of the twenty variables significantly affect the achievements of
students. Due to the presence of significant correlations among the variables seven of the
twenty variables which affect the achievements of students significantly were selected by
using stepwise discriminant analysis. The combined effect of the seven variables on
achievement was sllmmarized in one canonical discriminant jill1ction and the jimction was
effective in classifYing 79% of the holdout sample correctly. Among the selected
variables, "sex" has the largest influence in determining the jimctioll. Based on the
results, some conclusions are made
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Affecting Academic Achievement