| dc.description | Education means the process of acquiring knowledge and developing the powers of
reasoning and judgment that helps decision making and facing chalanges in the real life.
According to UNESCO (1999), education is defined as organized and sustained
communication designed to learning. Infact its fundamental right of human being used to
cultivate human capabilities and opportunities for the well-being of the society that
people need. It‟s vital for the improving human development, economics sustainability,
institutionalizing the democratic system and above all for the making a peaceful society.
Without proper education no nation can progress and gain prosperity.
The future of a nation is secured only in the hands of educated people in today‟s
competitive world; there is no argument of avoiding the importance of education
realizing these. Bangladesh government has given priority on the development of this
sector that can be perceived easily through the consecutive national budget, the
government aided different educational programs and the govermnet‟s aided different
educational programs and government‟s new grants for schools colleges, madrasha and
universities. Parents have also clearly comprehended the importance of education in
order to faster the education in the society. School and educational institution play the
vital role of making up the basic frame work of education. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This study was undertaken to assess the factors affecting the academic performance of
secondary school students in northern Bangladesh. It was also aimed to investigate the
relationship between socio economic and other variables with academic performances of
the students this study. A two stage cluster sampling technique was used to achieve the
objectives of this study in Rangpur division of Bangladesh which covers 57 upazilas in
eight districts. For sampling purpose, this study covered 25% of the 57 Upizalas i.e. 14
Upizalas those were randomly selected from the whole (57). In the second stage two
secondary schools were selected randomly from each selected upazila. All the students of
class nine grade (IX), who completed class VII and class VIII grades in the same school
are included in the sample. Total numbers of sampled students were 1853 on secondary
school students. A set of questionnaires was distributed to the respective respondents and
objective oriented data were collected for this study. The data were analyzed using
descriptive analysis, statistics, t-test, F-test, Chi-square (χ
2
) test, Binary logistic
regression analysis and Pearson correlation analysis. It was observed that about 82%
students were in the age group 14-15 and 18% students had age group 16+, it seems the
maximum students were in the age group 14-15. About 54.5 % students were male and
45.5% students were female. About 29.7% respondent students achieved in class VIII
final exam with <= 3.99 GPA, 20.0% students of respondent students had GPA 4.00 -
4.49 and 50.3% respondent students had GPA 4.50 - 5.00 in JSC results. The chi-square
test results showed that most of the demographic variables are significantly associated
with academic performance at JSC (Grade VIII) level at either 0.01 or 0.05 level of
probability except for religion, prior achievements position in class 5. Correlation matrix
feedback also found significant demographic variables with academic performances. The
result indicated that the variables mother education, father education; monthly family
income, monthly expenditure and hours for daily study at home were positively
significant the academic results of the secondary school students.
ANOVA outcomes also found a significant difference among the demographic variables
with the academic performance at JSC (Grade VIII) level. The Binary logistic analysis
revealed that variables mother education, monthly family income, parents‟ residence,
school type and father occupation are the determinant variables for getting good
academic results. The factors like academic atmosphere at school, academic atmosphere
at home and education target level were significant identifying factors also for achieve
good academic results grade 8 (JSC results) students. This study recommends that
parents should provide the necessary academic material to the students, adequate home
resources and academic atmosphere at home for better quality academic achievements.
Also, parents, teachers and school authority should collaborate with each other, make
encouragement to the students or leaners to motivate the expectation of the students and
making good school environment to achieve high academic performances at secondary
level. | en_US |
