Attributions of Academic Performance among Third Year and Fourth Year Biology Major Students

Nick John B Solar

doi:10.4172/2161-0487.1000210

Abstract

This is a non-experimental, cross sectional comparative study aimed to determine the attributions of academic performance of third year and fourth year biology major students in the College of Education of West Visayas State University in Philippines. The academic performance of the students were measured in terms of test, projects, workbooks, and laboratory experiments, class participation, and attendance. The researcher made closed-form questionnaire checklist that was categorized in terms of the ability, the effort, luck or the task difficulty was use to evaluate the attribution in academic performance of the students. In order to determine if there were significant difference in the attribution of the students when they were taken according to their year level, the mean frequency, mean percentage, Mann-Whitney U-test, two-sampled test set at 0.05 level of significance were employed. The result of the study revealed that the Third Year biology major students attributed their academic performance to effort which was shown to have the highest percentage attribution and luck which was shown to have the least percentage attribution in the overall rank. The result revealed further, that there was a significant difference in the attributions of academic performance for third year and fourth year biology major students in terms of test, while the results for projects, workbooks and laboratory experiment and class participation and attendance categories was found out to have a significant difference in the attribution for the academic performance of the third and fourth year biology major students.

Highlights

The academic achievements of the students are believed to be greatly influence by the probability and causes of their success and failure [1,2]
It attempted to determine what do students attribute their academic performance as measured by test, projects, workbooks, laboratory experiments, class participation, and attendance when classified by year level and when taken as an entire group; and test the difference in the attribution when the students were taken according to their year level
The Biology major students on their third and fourth years rely on their best efforts and abilities in the accomplishment of their academic tasks

Summary

Introduction

The academic achievements of the students are believed to be greatly influence by the probability and causes of their success and failure [1,2]. Mahboudi M [4] suggested that “Causal Attribution” is being one of the motivation theories manipulating the realization of decisions. In this process, the individuals try to decide on the causal factors of an event or consequence. The individuals try to decide on the causal factors of an event or consequence This individual’s response to a certain event is dependent on their interpretation of that event. He added that, facilitating events prediction and control, the attributions explain the sensations, attitudes and behaviours and affect emotions and manipulate individual’s function

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