Determinants of Students Tertiary Level Academic Performance in Ethiopia “A Case in University of Gondar”

Abstract

This study is conducted to investigate the determinants of students’ academic performance in university of Gondar using logstic regression approach. For the successful accomplishment of the research, primary data collected from 112 sampled students has been analyzed using both descriptive and econometrics methods. With this regard if there is a unit increment in students effort measured in number of hour spend in studying, there is corresponding rise of CGPA by 0.093 holding other explanatory variables. From the study result it is observed students who actually spend more of their time in studying score higher than those who do not, this is consistent with our initial hypothesis. The other variable which explains the academic performance of the students is gender where the proportion is in favor of male students. The study indicates that male students have more chance of scoring than females students. Variables like monthly income, age, home town and access to computer have no significant effect on the dependent variable in our study.

Keywords: Logit model, Students’ academic performance, University of Gondar

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-22-04

Publication date:August 31^st 2020