摘要
Sometimes,people with interest in measuring quality of education take intoaccountlevel in academic performance and various associated factors.Usually,an aver-age academic performance is an accustomed way of assessment;however,this studyexamines on individual basis different factors that might have an impact on the acad-emic performance of undergraduate students.Data on the semester weighted averageof class of 2012 mathematics students were acquired from the Quality Assurance andPlanning Unit and the Examination Office of the Department of Mathematics,KwameNkrumah University of Science and Technology.The main factors considered for thisresearch were entry age,gender,entry aggregate,Ghana education service gradedlevel of senior high school attended and geographical location.The statistical methodconsidered was random effect.Since the interaction or variation around the slope washighly insignificant,the random intercept model was the better alternative ahead ofthe random intercept and slope model.Statistically,not all the parameter estimatesare significant at a=0.05 level of significance.It was observed that the differencein geographical location was not significant in the main effect model.Hence where astudent comes from has no influence on their academic performance.However,entryaggregate,entry age and gender were all significant.Nevertheless,the geographical location with regard to the Northern Belt was significant in the linear trend with astandard deviation of approximately 0.712.
基金
lt is a pleasure to thank Dr.Rev.William Obeng-Denteh,Department of Mathematics,Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and'Technology(KNUST)and also Mr.Kojo Ankar-Brewoo ofthe Quality Assurance and Planning Unit(QUAPU)for providing me with the data for my analysis.Mythanks also go to the Department of Mathematics,KNUST,for permitting me to carry out my research inthe department.I owe my deepest gratitude to my mother Miss Nancy Apagya-Bonney for supporting andfinancing me throughout my tertiary education.I thank my all Mr.Emmanuel Kwesi Sam,Aba Apagya-Bonney and family for all the kind words,finance and continuous encouragement that always pushed meto work harder.
