Statistical survey of factors affecting students' academic performance of the university, A.B.U, students, Nigeria

Abstract

In this study, we investigated the Factors Affecting students Academic Performance in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. The twelve faculties in the institution were used for the research. A sample of undergraduate students served as the subjects. Descriptive statistics and Chi-square were used to analyse the research questions. The results show that lecturers-student relationship does not influence students academic performance but management-student relationship, student-student (peer) relationship and availability of facilities influences students academic performance. In line with these, recommendations were made which hopefully will help to cope with the effect of management-student relationship, student-student (peer) relationship and availability of facilities that influence students academic performance. The recommendations include: management organizing students-conference, acknowledging student accomplishment by the management, management should endeavour to regulate the number of students being admitted and provide prompt feedback to students requests.