FACTORS AFFECTING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN RELATION WITH SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECONOMIC FACTORS IN DINAJPUR
Date
2014-12
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HAJEE MOHAMMAD DANESH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY, DINAJPUR.
Abstract
The present study was undertaken to identify the university level academic performance of
students in relation to the socio-demographic, economic and other academic environments, as
well as to make conclusions for the improvement of academic performances. The study was
carried out on the students of Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University
(HSTU), Dinajpur keeping in view of its multi-disciplinary, multi-pattern degree, meritorious
enrolled students at the largest technical university of the North West region of the country.
The number of sampled students for this study was 226, consisted of 128 male and 98 female
students selected from the 434 students of Level-4 Semester-I of the year 2013 among the
eight degree offering disciplines of undergraduate students.
Description
Bangladesh is the eighth largest nation in the world with a population of about 151.41 million
on a land of 147570 sq. km in developing countries of the world (BBS, 2011). It has huge
possible for rapid development in the new world economy. The people of the country are
ambitious, hard working, very mindful of democratic norms and the value of education,
mainly higher education. Poverty is the major obstruction of pursuing quality education in
this country. Academic performance, socio-demographic and economic is the most vital
considerations among students at university level. The academic performance can be
illustrated by grade point average (GPA). There are still some differences in performance
among the students. Several studies identified internal and external factors associated with
academic performance.
Keywords
REVIEW OF LITERATURE, Study population and sampling design, Individual, friends and family characteristics of student’s being studied