Higher Education Learner’s Academic Performance Is Affected by Multiple Factors.
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Higher education learner’s academic performance is affected by multiple factors. Discus 50[marks]
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Student academic performance is one of the major determinants in assessing the quality of Education. Students at higher education are mature enough to mention the influential and hindering factors towards their academic performance. Identifying factors that influence students’ learning and thus academic perfomance continues to be an important objective of educators at all levels (Carrotte, 1999).
Analysis revealed that certain elements contribute towards student’s academic performances, which are categorized into six major factors: Academic, Personal, Media, Facilities, Guidance Services and Organizational Climate.
Academic Factor
Academic factors are those factors affecting student academic performance pertaining to content, methodology, assessment system, teaching learning environment and attending educational events.
Students’ attitude towards a particular subject has a positive relation with achievement (Bos & Kuiper, 1999). Cognitive as academic performances, motivational factors, teaching methodology and classroom-contextual factors exercise a significant influence. Cognitive factors including cognitive capabilities, previous knowledge, and, to some extent, subject-specific self-concept are important for student academic performance (Von Rhöneck, Grob, Schnaitmann, & Völker, 1998).
Personal Factor
Personal factors include the elements which are subjected to individual traits, abilities, psychosocial conditions and opportunities and constraints affecting their academic performance.
Various factors affect student academic performance at higher education level like personal confidence and a feeling of competence in learning; hopeful but realistic projection into the future occupational roles and social roles; emotional stability; temperamental tendency towards introversion; relative independence from teachers and a tacit
Higher education learner’s academic performance is affected by multiple factors. Discus 50[marks]
Answer
Student academic performance is one of the major determinants in assessing the quality of Education. Students at higher education are mature enough to mention the influential and hindering factors towards their academic performance. Identifying factors that influence students’ learning and thus academic perfomance continues to be an important objective of educators at all levels (Carrotte, 1999).
Analysis revealed that certain elements contribute towards student’s academic performances, which are categorized into six major factors: Academic, Personal, Media, Facilities, Guidance Services and Organizational Climate.
Academic Factor
Academic factors are those factors affecting student academic performance pertaining to content, methodology, assessment system, teaching learning environment and attending educational events.
Students’ attitude towards a particular subject has a positive relation with achievement (Bos & Kuiper, 1999). Cognitive as academic performances, motivational factors, teaching methodology and classroom-contextual factors exercise a significant influence. Cognitive factors including cognitive capabilities, previous knowledge, and, to some extent, subject-specific self-concept are important for student academic performance (Von Rhöneck, Grob, Schnaitmann, & Völker, 1998).
Personal Factor
Personal factors include the elements which are subjected to individual traits, abilities, psychosocial conditions and opportunities and constraints affecting their academic performance.
Various factors affect student academic performance at higher education level like personal confidence and a feeling of competence in learning; hopeful but realistic projection into the future occupational roles and social roles; emotional stability; temperamental tendency towards introversion; relative independence from teachers and a tacit
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