A Study of Undergraduate Students' Performance in Nigeria

dc.creator	A.A. Akinrefon
dc.creator	A.O. Adejumo
dc.date	2012-12-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:30:29Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:30:29Z
dc.identifier	1313-1958
dc.identifier	1313-9118
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/add9247f79da4df6aadccdbfeda49e59
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/22296
dc.description	This research work was carried out to assess undergraduate students’ performance in their first year and their final year in order to ascertain which of them gives the student’s true ability in his/her chosen field of study and also to investigate the effect of some variables on their final grade. The Conditional Symmetry model is used in investigating the level of agreement that exist between the students’ performance in their entry year and that of their final year in the University while the multinomial logit regression is used in assessing the influence of such variables as Age, Mode of entry, Gender, First, Second, and Third year GPAs on their Final CGPA. The tau estimate from the Conditional Symmetry model showed, in all the various cross classified data, that their first year performance rated the students’ performance better than their final year performance while the multinomial logit showed that the estimated odds of the student making a first/second class (up-per division) as against a second class (lower division) is higher in their first year than in the final year.
dc.language	Bulgarian
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	University of Sofia
dc.relation	http://bjsep.org/getfile.php?id=121
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1313-1958
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1313-9118
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND
dc.source	Bulgarian Journal of Science and Education Policy , Vol 6, Iss 2, Pp 273-291 (2012)
dc.subject	Undergraduate
dc.subject	Performance
dc.subject	Conditional symmetry
dc.subject	Multinomial logit
dc.subject	Grade Point Average (GPA)
dc.subject	Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA)
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	A Study of Undergraduate Students' Performance in Nigeria
dc.type	article