GROWING AGE AND STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS: A DISCIPLINE -BASED CROSS SECTIONAL COMPARISON AT POST GRADUATE LEVEL

Abstract

Teaching learning process has always been affected by different components including the physical as well as the chronological the present study was an effort to identify the effects of growing age on the achievement of students in the different subject areas. To conduct this study post graduate level of education was selected as at this level there are students with the different age groups for pursuing the MPhil and PhD degrees. The population of this study comprised of all the empire level students studying at University of Okara in different subject areas during academic sessions 2019-2021 and 2020-2022. Randomly selected 283 students of the two academic sessions who were the sample of this study. These students fall into different age groups ranging from 21 years to 60 years.
 As far as the data of the research study is a concern there were two type of data used in the research including the students average cumulative grade point (CGP) and ages in years. The students’ academic performance results were obtained from the controller of examination University of Okara whereas the ages of these students were checked from the registrar office of University of Okara. The analysis of the data is reported in the foregoing chapter i.e. Chapter 4 of this study. The findings of thereof are reported in the upcoming section.