Title: Viewpoints of the lecturers’ and students’ at Rehabilitation College of Semnan University of Medical Sciences on the factors influencing students’ academic achievement in 2012-2013 academic year
Abstract: Introduction:Academic achievement has been one of the effi
ciency indexes of every educational system
that is influenced by many factors. This study has
been conducted with the aim of surveying the views of
Lecturers’ and students at Rehabilitation College of Se
mnan University of Medical Sciences on the factors
influencing students’ academic achievement.
Materials and Methods:In the current study, which is a cross-sectional descriptive-analytic one, a
census method was employed and it was conducted
in the academic years of 2012 and 2013. The
participants of the study were 130 sophomore and higher level university students majoring in physiotherapy, occupational therapy speech therapy
at Bsc level and as many as 40 Lecturers at the
Rehabilitation College of Semnan University. For th
e purpose of data collection, a 25-item self-developed
questionnaire on Likert scale was developed a
nd its reliability and validity was confirmed.
Results: Among the five areas surveyed in the study based
on the perspective of Lecturers and students,
factors related to student (4.43±0.49) and (4.17±0.52)
received the highest scores. Meanwhile, the lecturers
assigned the lowest score to family factors (3.53± 0.53) and students scored facilities of the educational environment the lowest (3.84±0.90). A comparison of the views revealed that there is a significant difference between the lecturers and students’ perspectives on student (p=0.007), family (p=0/017) and socioeconomic factors (p=0.001). Like lecturers, the students perceived future job opportunity of the field, interest in the field and self-confidence as
effective factors on academic achievement.
Conclusion:Considering learners and factors closely rela
ted to them as well as preparing grounds for
increasing learners’ motivation, confidence and interest
in the field have appreciable influence on learners’
academic achievement.
Keywords
: Attitude, Faculty, Students, Academic achievem
ent, Educational status, Semnan university of
medical sciences
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-10
Language: en
Type: article
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