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Utilization of Ordinal Logistic Regression to Predict the Effect of Selected Variables Affecting Students Achievement
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Abstract
The difficulty that leads to failure of students to attain a good higher performance in Nigeria University lately can?t be overstressed. Regardless of the benefit connected to student?s performance, academic analysts have shown in their different papers that there is a decline in understudies? achievement. Explores had additionally demonstrated that there are great deal of components dependable for this pattern. Utilizing the information gotten from a questionnaire from understudies of Federal University of Lafia. Sex, Communication skills, Guidance, Proximity of student to school, Learning facilities, Pear group, Lack of learning materials and Family stress of understudies are inspected to the components that seem contribute to understudies? execution. Ordinal Logistic Regression (Proportional chance Model) is utilized to show the information and the output uncover that sex, communication, proximity to school, Peer group, Learning Facilities of understudies isn?t a determinant component of last review (grade)that understudies may accomplished at graduation. This paper finds that there is break even chance for both male and female understudies to graduate from University with best class of degree. Hence, it in addition settled that the elevated chance of graduating with best Class of degree is gotten by understudies? who are giving proper guidance. Most of these students are giving a well proper care both academically, and financially which contribute to their high performances in their various departments. It has also seen that the model for family stress has the elevated clarification for the variations in the CGPA (last grade of scholars). Hence apolicy should be recommended to encourage students with various understanding of different disciplines to study at their own course of interest and government?s strategy on schooling ought to be centered on the two sexual orientations rather than exceptional consideration generally given to female understudies.
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How to cite this paper
@article{1711074,
author = {Bello Abdullahi A., Ahmed Ibrahim, Adehi M.U., Nweze Obini},
title = {Utilization of Ordinal Logistic Regression to Predict the Effect of Selected Variables Affecting Students Achievement},
journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
year = {2025},
volume = {9},
number = {4},
pages = {84-91},
issn = {2456-8880},
url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1711074.pdf},
abstract = {The difficulty that leads to failure of students to attain a good higher performance in Nigeria University lately can?t be overstressed. Regardless of the benefit connected to student?s performance, academic analysts have shown in their different papers that there is a decline in understudies? achievement. Explores had additionally demonstrated that there are great deal of components dependable for this pattern. Utilizing the information gotten from a questionnaire from understudies of Federal University of Lafia. Sex, Communication skills, Guidance, Proximity of student to school, Learning facilities, Pear group, Lack of learning materials and Family stress of understudies are inspected to the components that seem contribute to understudies? execution. Ordinal Logistic Regression (Proportional chance Model) is utilized to show the information and the output uncover that sex, communication, proximity to school, Peer group, Learning Facilities of understudies isn?t a determinant component of last review (grade)that understudies may accomplished at graduation. This paper finds that there is break even chance for both male and female understudies to graduate from University with best class of degree. Hence, it in addition settled that the elevated chance of graduating with best Class of degree is gotten by understudies? who are giving proper guidance. Most of these students are giving a well proper care both academically, and financially which contribute to their high performances in their various departments. It has also seen that the model for family stress has the elevated clarification for the variations in the CGPA (last grade of scholars). Hence apolicy should be recommended to encourage students with various understanding of different disciplines to study at their own course of interest and government?s strategy on schooling ought to be centered on the two sexual orientations rather than exceptional consideration generally given to female understudies.},
month = {October},
}