Abstract
Poor academic performance of students is not the only concern for parents and teachers, but also a concern for the country as a whole. This paper makes an attempt to identify the cause(s) of poor academic achievement. This paper presents a method of identifying the most influencing factor on academic performance. The proposed method capable of using qualitative ratings as input for the factors considered and find the correlation of each factor with academic performance, and finally rank the influences of the factors on performance to sort out the most influencing one. The study was carried out on the academic performance of 189 students of B.Tech for five academic semesters. The results indicate the degree influences of various factors on performance, with the most influencing one being the academic ability of students.
Highlights
Good academic performance is very important for developing country like India [1, 2]
In the following the influence of various factors on the academic achievement of students are analysis
The paper has demonstrated the connection between academic performance and various factors, and shown how different factors influence on the performance, and the effect of the factors are ranked to arrived at the most influencing one
Summary
Good academic performance is very important for developing country like India [1, 2]. By understanding the cause of poor academic performance, the concerned authority can take appropriate decision to improve academic performance or achievement of students [3]. The majority of the literature is, based on surveys [4, 5, 6] and self-reports, methods which have well-known systematic biases that lead to limitations on conclusions and generality as well as being costly to implement. Academic performance by a student is the result of various contributing factors. Literature lists multiple factors that affect academic performance of students. Academic performance is a complex equation with multiple angles. Effect of various factors on academic performance of students can not be denied
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