An Assessment of Factors that Affecting Academic Performances of Students’: The Case of Assosa General Secondary and Preparatory School, Ethiopia

Abstract

The principal objective of this study is to analyze factors that affecting academic performances of students’ in Assosa general secondary and preparatory School. This helps to raise a better understanding on the factors that influencing the students’ academic performances. The factors subject to analysis include  various factors  which have been  investigated and  found  to  have  either direct  or  indirect  effects  on  the  students’  academic performance. These are include school environmental factors (like availability of physical facilities, availability of teaching and learning materials), teacher related factors (like teacher qualification, teachers’ working conditions and interests), home environmental factors (like parents and community attitudes towards education), students’ characteristics (like students attitude and motivation, students’ discipline), and lack of good ethics. Besides, the research is conducted based on qualitative methodology especially deep interview, Focus group discussion and document analysis.

Keywords: Factors, Academic Performances, Students’, Secondary and preparatory School, Ethiopia.