Make Your Academic Performane Highly NoticeablePosted by emerjoytvale on August 13th, 2010 DIFFERENTIAL STUDY IN THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS Differential Study on the Academic Performance of UB Nursing Students CHAPTER I ABSTRACT The College of Nursing in University of Bohol campus encompasses different kinds of students studying to become nurses in the future. Researchers conducted a differential study that was based on the affectation of the different factors to the academic performances of the nursing students on the said campus. Eighty respondents that were gathered through purposive and quota sampling represented the entire population. Researchers got 40 male students and 40 female students that were evenly subdivided by each year level. Needed data for the study was acquired through the used of ready-made questionnaires. Academic comparison was determined according to the average midterm grade of the respondents in the different subjects taken and was categorized to meet better differentiation. After data gathering, the data were tabulated, graphed, analyzed, and met the findings that majority of the female group and 4th year level group were better academic performer than others in UBCN. It was concluded that academic performances of nursing students were affected by their profiles and study habits. The researchers expected that the research study helped a lot to nursing students in determining the different factors affecting their struggle towards nursing profession. Differential Study on the Academic Performance of UB Nursing Students INTRODUCTION Academic performance needs assessment and interpretation for the completion of the research. Assessments on academic performance should result into more valid educational tools for school administration, clinical instructors, students, and parents if problems associated with their development and success in the nursing profession occurred. Need being responded by this study is the knowledge deficiency of nursing students regarding different factors that affect their own study. Many will benefit in the study especially the entire mass of nursing students in UB, the administration and the CIs. ?Every year many capable undergraduate students fail to attain their academic goals. Some of these students are unsuccessful in their attempts to enter graduate or professional schools. Others fail to achieve sufficient grades to remain in their undergraduate program. The most common "reason" that students offer for not following the plan is; I?m bright enough to get by without working until the last moment. Besides, I learn and retain information better if I wait until the night before the exam to prepare for it. This is a ridiculous attitude. In reality, you learn and retain information best when you study it throughout the term and review it before the exam. With repeated exposures to material, you develop what is known as a schema, or information organizer that aids memory and understanding. Consider for a moment the following situation: You have to know your way around a new city by next Saturday and no city maps are available to you. Would you what until Friday night to learn the city streets? Of course not. By driving around the city every day you would develop a street schema or map that would make your task much easier.? (Wright 1989) So now, let us wander on the land of possible factors that affect academe of each individual. Differential Study on the Academic Performance of UB Nursing Students RELATED LITERATURE Factors Related to the Academic Performance of Students in the Statistics Course in Psychology ?Many studies have examined the factors that influence academic performance in primary and secondary education as well as at university, with the purpose of enhancing learning at these stages and reducing drop-out rates. It is within this research framework that we want to emphasize the deficient performance of students enrolled on the statistics course in the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Barcelona. Consequently, this paper attempts to determine the factors that affect student performance in this subject by undertaking an analysis of a structural equation model and determining its stability over time. In order to accomplish our objective, we worked with two samples of students enrolled statistics classes. The first group comprised 211 students enrolled in the academic year 2000?2001, while the second comprised 287 students enrolled in the academic year 2001?2002. By administering a questionnaire, we obtained information concerning such variables as demographic data, previous academic record, information related to the subject and the degree of satisfaction with it, and the final mark obtained by the students in the subject. The parameters for each group of students were estimated separately and the goodness of fit of the proposed structural model was assessed. The data analysis showed a good fit with both databases, but the set of estimated parameters differed in the two academic years under consideration. (Guardia, et.al) Differential Study on the Academic Performance of UB Nursing Students RELATIONSHIP OF STUDY ATTITUDE AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS AT SECONDARY LEVEL IN PUNJAB ?The main purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship of studyattitude or the students with their academic-performance at secondary level. Study attitude is student s viewpoint about study and academic performance is academic achievement of students. The major objectives of the study were to correlate the studyattitude and academic-performance of students and to compare the study-attitudes of low and high achievers. All secondary school students of govt. boys and girls high schools in Punjab province who appeared in ninth grade examination of Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education 2003 were taken as population of the students. The province was divided in to three zones: Northern Punjab, Central Punjab, and Southern Punjab. Two districts from each zone were selected randomly. The lists of schools located in the selected districts were obtained from the office of educational management and information system, Punjab Lahore. The schools were divided into rural and urban girls: schools and rural and urban boys' schools. One school was selected randomly from each of the above categories. In this way, twenty-four schools were selected. From each school, all students appearing in ninth grade examination 2003 were included in the sample. The variable of study-attitude was measured through the scores obtained by the students on study-attitude scale (SAS) consisting of 36 items. The items were divided into eight categories namely attitude toward self, regularity, examination, perseverance, teacher, subjects, school, and parents'-authority. The study-attitude scale was standardized by checking the validity and reliability of the scale. Items were dropped based on weak correlation with total score and low discriminatory power. The variable of Differential Study on the Academic Performance of UB Nursing Students academic performance was measured through marks obtained by the students in the Board Examination held in March 2003. The academic-performance scores were correlated with study-attitude scores and it was found that study attitude was positively related to the academic performance. The study attitude scores of females were more closely related with academic performance as compared to males; similarly study attitude scores of rural students are more closely related with academic performance as compared to urban students. Furthermore, mean scores of low and high academic-achievers were compared and it was found that high achievers and low achievers differ in their study attitude and female, male and rural, urban students also differ in their study attitude.? (Sarwar 2004) ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE: TIME ALLOTTED ?Today's college students are less prepared for college-level work than their predecessors are. Once they get to college, they tend to spend fewer hours studying while spending more hours working, some even full time (D. T. Smart, C. A. Kelley, & J. S. Conant, 1999). In this study, the authors examined the effect of both time spent studying and time spent working on academic performance. The authors further evaluated the interaction of motivation and ability with study time and its effect on academic performance. The results suggested that non-ability variables like motivation and study time significantly interact with ability to influence academic performance.? (http://www.highbeam.com/l) Differential Study on the Academic Performance of UB Nursing Students THEORITICAL BACKGROUND NURSING THEORY SCIENCE OF UNITARY BEINGS by Martha Rogers ?Nursing is a learned profession: a science and art. The uniqueness of nursing is identified in the phenomena of concerned. Within the viewpoint of science of unitary human beings, the person is a unified whole and seen as being greater than and different from the sum of the parts.? (Delaune 2006) These assumptions give basis that every individual has different aspects maybe different from others that could affect human activity such as raising academic performance. EDUCATOR?S THEORY SOME SUGGESTION FOR IMPROVING YOUR ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE ?Every year many capable undergraduate students fail to attain their academic goals. Some of these students are unsuccessful in their attempts to enter graduate or professional schools. Others fail to achieve sufficient grades to remain in their undergraduate program. The majority of these students have at least one thing in common-they did not acquire proper work strategies in their first two university years. I urge you to read this handout. A disadvantage to the "last minute" technique is that you leave yourself no time to clarify confusing points in the lecture or text material. So, if you hear students brag about having aced exams without working, pity them. A good number of such students end up wandering through the halls of graduate, law or medical schools muttering, "Why am I flunking out? I?ve started to work hard." Hard? Maybe. Efficiently? No. Many other students appreciate the soundness of the aforementioned plan but are unable to follow it for more than a few weeks. As they fall behind in their Differential Study on the Academic Performance of UB Nursing Students work they become increasingly frustrated, tired and anxious. Inevitably, their concentration begins to wane and their performance declines. What steps can such people take to increase their chances of sticking to the plan? Here are a few ideas that I have found useful. 1) It is quite likely that you will feel fresh during the months of July, August and September. If it is at all possible, try and find out then what text books will be used in your upcoming courses. With a little effort, you should be able to buy and read part of these books before classes start. Many people find course material more interesting when they are not reading it under pressure. 2)Staying fresh is vital. You can?t concentrate well if you are anxious or tired. One way to reduce anxiety and increase stamina is to exercise regularly. If you can?t or won?t exercise, you must eat and sleep well. One way to increase the quality of your sleep is to stop working 45 minutes before you go to bed. Just relax at this time. Some people find that they feel tired after eating supper. If you are one of these people, consider resting for a half hour after supper. If you work on a project when you are tired or may become frustrated with it. If this happens, you may start to dread having to return to it in the future. I find I need a 20 minute break after 90 minutes of work. If I can, I lie down and close my eyes. It?s important to not think about your work during your breaks. It's also important to not "binge work" (i.e., work five, six or more hours without a real break). It often takes one to three days to recover from such efforts. 3) Adopt the attitude that school is a job. Plan on working eight hours a day. If you adopt this attitude from day one, You won?t start to view classes and study sessions as Differential Study on the Academic Performance of UB Nursing Students infringements on your free time. Try to remind yourself that law, medical and graduate students work 60-90 hours per week. It is also helpful to consider that people who join corporations (often as an alternative to attending university)are often expected to put in five hours of night or weekend work each week. 4) After you've reviewed that day's lecture notes (or that week's text readings) write out any points that you find confusing. Remember that difficulties will often arise simply because you have forgotten terms or concepts that you covered in your introductory course. Keep your introductory text handy. It?s amazing how much information you can glean from a second reading of this book. If your introductory text does not help you with your problem check the library for a book that covers the same material as your text. If this does not help you be sure to ask your professor. 5) If you miss a class, borrow notes from two people, not one person. Also, seek out tow people who are skilled at note taking. Clearly, if one person has recorded something that is not meaningful to you, the other person?s notes may help. 6) Get to know your classmates. If you can discuss course material with someone who is at your level of sophistication you?ll gain a richer understanding of the field. Your classmates may also be able to help you clarify certain concerns you may have regarding the course requirements. 7) Generate a list of everything you have to remember to do. Carry it with you at all times. Update it regularly. Make up work schedules also. Note that it is important to allow yourself twice as much time as you think you?ll need to complete assignments Differential Study on the Academic Performance of UB Nursing Students and prepare for exams. Why? Students rarely plan on (a) getting sick, (b) having friends or relatives request their time to help with crises, (c) being unable to find resource material at a moment?s notice, (d) neighbours having loud parties at in opportune times, etc. Moreover, if you follow my advice you?ll avoid falling into this cycle: having one of the aformentioned events interfere with your work, blaming external factors for your poor performance, deciding that your efforts are always in vain, or giving up. 8) Exams-pretend that you are the professor for a particular course and that you have to generate fair questions that cover the important lecture and text information. If you take the time to do this you?ll be surprised at how easy it is to anticipate exam questions. When writing the exam remember to read the questions through 3 or 4 times. Write so as not to be misunderstood. Remember that examples cannot substitute for definitions or explanations. 9) Papers-Have your papers written at least two weeks before they are due. Then hide them for five or six days. Then re-read them with a very critical eye. I guarantee that you won?t like what you see. Fortunately, you?ll have time to write more drafts. If you do not know how to write, purchase and read, "Elements of Style", by Strunk and White or something similar. 10) Go to computing services and ask someone for information on work processinghandbooks, courses, etc. making changes to papers is no trouble at all if you put your papers on a computer. Computer basics are very easy to learn.? (Wright 1989) Differential Study on the Academic Performance of UB Nursing Student CONCLUSION After the study analysis and interpretation, researchers concluded that there were a greater number of female nursing students who are academically better than the male nursing students. In terms of year level in the course of Bachelor of Science in Nursing in University of Bohol, 4th year students are more intelligent than the lower levels. It was also found out that there was a greater number of good academic performer in fourth year than the other level, maybe because the low performers are already been expelled. Researchers also concluded that most of those who live in a boarding house and those who stay with in one kilometer away from school are better academic performers than the others. Academic performance of nursing students was not affected by having or not having a boyfriend or girlfriend. Majority of those who had allowance of 750-1000 pesos a week were good academic performers. Academic performances were correlated with academic performances and were found out that many of those who studied just before the exam or the night before the exam and those who study everyday were better academic performer than the others were. Those who have 1-3 hours of study were also found out that they are better academic performer than the others. Those who study from 9-12 pm were also better academic performer than others. Many nursing students perceived that the term exams were difficult and many said that the minor subjects are easy. Alternate hypothesis has been proven. There is significant difference between the academic performances of male nursing students to female one. There is a relationship between the profiles of nursing students to their academic performance. There is a relationship between the study habits of nursing students to their academic performance. There is a variety of impact between the personal perception of nursing students to the administration, instructors, and subjects taken. Differential Study on the Academic Performance of UB Nursing Students RECOMMENDATIONS What steps can nursing students take to increase their chances of being an excellent academic performer? Here are a few ideas that we have found useful. Try to relocate yourself near to school so that stress on distance will be minimized. Have your stomach full every time you are in school. Increase your allowance but don?t make it too much. If you are employed, concentrate more on your study. Make a study habit. Make it to be regular. Best for it is to study every before exam and everyday, every 9-12 pm and for 1-3 hours. Read your books. Collect a foundation of questions and answers about nursing. ??Staying fresh is vital. You can?t concentrate well if you are anxious or tired. One way to reduce anxiety and increase stamina is to exercise regularly. If you can?t or won?t exercise, you must eat and sleep well. One way to increase the quality of your sleep is to stop working 45 minutes before you go to bed. Just relax at this time.? (Wright 1989) Adopt the attitude that school is a job. Plan to work eight hours a day. ?After you have reviewed that day's lecture notes (or that week's text readings) write out any points that you find confusing. Remember that difficulties will often arise simply because you have forgotten terms or Differential Study on the Academic Performance of UB Nursing Students concepts that you covered in your introductory course. Keep your introductory text handy.? (Wright 1989) ?If you miss a class, borrow notes from two people, not one person. Also, seek out tow people who are skilled at note taking.? (Wright 1989) ?Get to know your classmates. If you can discuss course material with someone who is at your level of sophistication you?ll gain a richer understanding of the field.? (Wright 1989) ?Generate a list of everything you have to remember to do. Carry it with you at all times. Update it regularly. Make up work schedules also. Note that it is important to allow yourself twice as much time as you think you?ll need to complete assignments and prepare for exams.? (Wright 1989) ?Exams-pretend that you are the professor for a particular course and that you have to generate fair questions that cover the important lecture and text information. If you take the time to do this you?ll be surprised at how easy it is to anticipate exam questions. When writing the exam remember to read the questions through 3 or 4 times. Write so as not to be misunderstood. Remember that examples cannot substitute for definitions or explanations.? (Wright 1989) ?Papers-Have your papers written at least two weeks before they are due. Then hide them for five or six days. Then re-read them with a very critical eye. I guarantee that you won?t like what you see.? (Wright 1989) Search for new information at net. Differential Study on the Academic Performance of UB Nursing Students GLOSSARY Academic performance ? grade obtain by respondents in response to their study in the course of nursing. Average academic performer--respondents who have a midterm average of 2.0 -2.5 in the nursing and minor subjects in UB Convenience sampling (sometimes known as grab or opportunity sampling) is a type of non-probability sampling which involves the sample being drawn from that part of the population which is close to hand. Frequency- is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit Good academic performer-respondents who have a midterm average of 1.0-2.0 in the nursing and minor subjects in UB Low academic performer-respondents who have a midterm average of 2.5 and above in the nursing and minor subjects in UB Mean score- total score in a category divided by total possible weight Percentage - is a way of expressing a number as a fraction of 100 (per cent meaning "per hundred"). It is often denoted using the percent sign, "%". Percentages are used to express how large/small one quantity is, relative to another quantity. Personal perception - an analysis of an experiment about people "learning" to see certain objects in a certain way and how perception is an individual thing for everyone. Study habits ? students apply these habits to all of their classes in order to be successful, because successful students have good study habits. Profile - may refer to: a person?s personal feelings thoughts and or characteristics. the person who he is. Quota sampling- the population is first segmented into mutually exclusive sub-groups, just as in stratified sampling. Then judgment is used to select the subjects or units from each segment based on a specified proportion Respondents -One who responds: as a : one who maintains a thesis in reply b (1) : one who answers in various legal proceedings (as in equity cases Score- denotes the certain frequency that is multiplied by given weight Weight- constant numbers representing the degree of importance of a category(3, 2, 1) Differential Study on the Academic Performance of UB Nursing Students BIBLIOGRAPHY Books and Articles Delaune, Sue C., FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING, Theories for the New World of Nursing: Martha Rogers, pp. 43-44 Copyright 2006 Gu?rdia, Joan et.al, FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN THE STATISTICS COURSE IN PSYCHOLOGY Sarwar, Muhammad, RELATIONSHIP OF STUDY ATTITUDE AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS AT SECONDARY LEVEL IN PUNJAB. PhD thesis, University of Arid Agriculture, Rawalp, Copyright (2004) Vitor, Marie Madilyn, STUDENTS? MATHEMATICS PERFORMANCE AND ITEM ANALYSIS, REGIONAL ACHIEVEMENT TEST, DANAO HIGH SCHOOL, DANAO, BOHOL Copyright 2003 Wright E. SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVING YOUR ACADEMIC GRADE, Copyright 1989 Internet http://spingerlink.com/ http://eprints.hec.gov.pk/323/ http://www.highbeam.com/l) Differential Study on the Academic Performance of UB Nursing Students APPENDICES Like it? Share it! More by this author |