Abstract
Background: Students are considered part of the capital of each country. Several factors can affect their educational status and, as a result, contribute to their academic failure. The current study seeks to investigate the relationship between students’ academic failure and the affecting factors with the Iranian Educational Ranking of Universities. Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study. The required sample size was calculated using Cochran’s formula. A researcher-made questionnaire with 5 parts was used to collect data. Kruskal Wallis and Spearman’s analysis of variance was used for analysis. The significance level was considered as 0.05. Results: A total of 1215 people participated; 13.7% of students had had an academic failure and 2.0% of them were on academic probation. There was a correlation between university RAD rank and academic failure (r = -0.098 and P = 0.0001) as well as student satisfaction (r = 0.264 – P = 0.0001). There was a significant difference between an academic drop and academic grade in three ranks of university (Pv= 0.0001), and, interestingly, having moved from Rank 1 to 3, having academic grade increases, and having academic failure decreases. Conclusion: According to the findings of this study, the higher ranked the college campus is on the RAD scale, the higher the academic failure rate. For annual assessment of universities, it is proposed that assessment of academic failure and grades be used as a benchmark.
Highlights
Students are human capital[1] and future of all countries.[2]
It should be noted that academic failure and its consequences waste expenditures in this field1.6,18 Universities vary widely in different regions,[19] and this can be seen in the rankings of medical sciences universities
The prevalence of academic failure is notable in academic ranks, and the academic educational failure in better ranks conveys the message that there are problems in the education system
Summary
Students are human capital[1] and future of all countries.[2]. Several factors affect students’ academic status[3] leading to academic burnout[4] and possibly academic failure.[5]. Academic failure can delay finding a job and lead to frustration, loss of morale, and result in a large cost.[6,7] According to the definition of the United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), academic failure means repetition of grades, early dropout, and lower educational quality.[8] Studies have provided different definitions of academic failure,[9,10,11] but all have mentioned educational failure. For annual assessment of universities, it is proposed that assessment of academic failure and grades be used as a benchmark
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