Abstract
Context: Identification of the effect of valid factors on students' academic performance is of great importance to student counseling and policy making. Aims: This study was carried out to find the predictors of academic performance of 2 nd year undergraduate medical students of a renowned Medical College of Kolkata. Materials and Methods: This cross sectional study was carried out in a tertiary care teaching hospital of Kolkata. The information on factors like attendance percentage, sex, place of residence, previous academic performance of the entire batch of 2 nd year students was collected from the departments' academic records and through personal interview. The association of the above mentioned factors with students' academic performance was determined through statistical analysis using t-test and multiple linear regression modeling and the results were reported. Results: Academic performance is found to be weakly correlated with attendance. Better academic grade was observed for the group with high attendance percentage compared to the other with low attendance percentage ( P P P st year's coursework in their first attempt ( P Conclusion: All the factors studied in this paper which includes attendance, sex, place of residence and previous academic performance serve as predictors in understanding students' performance. Among the above mentioned, the attendance of the students is an important factor that has to be monitored and regulated through corrective actions to improve the performance of the class.
Highlights
Students pursuing medicine often face a number of social, academic, and emotional stresses, during the course of their study
This study was carried out to find the predictors of academic performance of 2nd year undergraduate medical students of a renowned Medical College of Kolkata
One of the recent studies show that poor performers in the early years of medical school become unsuccessful doctors[1] and are at an increased risk for subsequent professional misconduct.[2]
Summary
Students pursuing medicine often face a number of social, academic, and emotional stresses, during the course of their study. It is a natural tendency to assume that missing classes frequently results in poor academic performances. The literature review in this area suggests that students with higher attendance perform better than students who miss class regularly.[4] more recent studies suggest that a student’s academic performance don’t entirely depend on attendance and on several other influencing factors.[5,6,7] While the effect of absenteeism, gender and previous academic performance on students’ academic grade is well-established among students of other professional courses and foreign medical students,[6,7,8,9] the effect of the same on the grades of India medicos received little attention in the literature. The influence of place of residence on a student’s academic performance was not discussed in detail in
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