Students perception toward education environment factors that influence academic performance

Abstract

Many studies have been conducted on the education environment but very few research works are available on students’ perception on the education environment toward academic performance. This necessitates this research work, to examine the key education environment factors that influence academic performance. Education environment is where students of all categories pursue the academic goals of their desires; therefore it should provide the appropriate conditions needed to influence students’ aims. The researcher concentrated on the Internal and External Education Environment Factors, as the main factors according to various findings from previous researchers. Internal factors are those within the institution that have a direct influence on the students, while the external factors are those outside the institution but can affect the students if not properly controlled. The research was done at Freetown Polytechnic College in Sierra Leone, with a sample size of 150 students chosen using a basic random selection procedure. Two objectives and two hypotheses were generated. The primary data was collected using a structured Google questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used to analyse the data.