A Study On Factors Affecting Academic Achievement Of Students At Bole Senior Secondary School

This study was designed to find alit the most important variables that affect thernacademic achievements of students at Bole Senior Secondwy School. The samplernconsisted of one hundred and twenty four students of which twenty four were assigned tornthe holdout sample and the remaining one hundred were used as the analysis sample. irntests and discriminant analysis were used to analyze the data. The results of x2 testsrnindicated that nine of the twenty variables significantly affect the achievements ofrnstudents. Due to the presence of significant correlations among the variables seven of therntwenty variables which affect the achievements of students significantly were selected byrnusing stepwise discriminant analysis. The combined effect of the seven variables onrnachievement was sllmmarized in one canonical discriminant jill1ction and the jimction wasrneffective in classifYing 79% of the holdout sample correctly. Among the selectedrnvariables, "sex" has the largest influence in determining the jimctioll. Based on thernresults, some conclusions are made

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