Abstract
The overall purpose of this study was to assess heads, teachers, student-affairs officers and students’ views about factors influencing university students’ academic achievement and strategies taken to improve their achievement at Debre Markos University where found in Debre Markos city of East Gojjam province, Ethiopia. In this study, a case study design in accordance with the qualitative research method was used. The purpose of the case study is to draw conclusions about a particular case. The working group of this study contained 1-head, 1-teacher, 1-students’ affair official and 3-students. The researchers developed a semi-structured interview form and ensured its validity by giving two academicians who were experts on the topic and then the pilot study was conducted. As a result, firstly, participants reported university, teachers, language, families and student-related factors as the major factors influencing university students’ academic achievement. Secondly, students reported that they were revising past sheet papers and drawing up plans and so on to improve their academic achievement. The head, teacher and students’ affair official, however, reported they were giving counseling, training services, complex tasks to improve students’ academic achievement.
Highlights
The overall purpose of this study was to assess heads, teachers, student-affairs officers and students’ views about factors influencing university students’ academic achievement and strategies taken to improve their achievement at Debre Markos University where found in Debre Markos city of East Gojjam province, Ethiopia
This study examined a number of circumstances and causes that contributes to poor academic achievement of the students
From Debre Markos University’s colleges, only College of Natural and Computational has been selected as target of the study since the number of drop out students is high as compared with other colleges (Debre Markos University Registrar office 2016/17 academic year report)
Summary
The overall purpose of this study was to assess heads, teachers, student-affairs officers and students’ views about factors influencing university students’ academic achievement and strategies taken to improve their achievement at Debre Markos University where found in Debre Markos city of East Gojjam province, Ethiopia. In order to apply the seven vectors of Chickering’s student development theory that contains developing competence, managing emotions, moving through autonomy toward interdependence, developing mature interpersonal relationships, establishing identity, developing purpose and developing integrity on university students, Ortiz (1999), for example, found that living away from home increases leadership and interpersonal skills and cultural awareness of students. The study conducted by Mersha and his colleagues (2009) mentioned fear of failure, economic factors and being placed in the departments they are not interested, lack of support from teachers, their entrance exam as factors
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