Factors
affecting students' Academic performance.
Some factors have been explained as contributing to the level student’s
academic performances in school and colleges. According
to Asuquo
(2013), some of the factors affecting students' academic performance are
explained below:
(a) Types of school: The type of school a child attends is very important in
influencing educational outcomes, research in the* "US" according to
Asuquo (2013) has found that socio economic status influences educational
attain more context tends to affect the strength of the relationship between
socio-economic status and educational outcomes. Students from independent
private schools are more likely to achieve higher end of school scores.
Students that attend private schools are
academically sound than students from public schools because they
have good qualified teachers, good infrastructures and conducive environment in
the school although these factors are indirectly linked to the effect of socio-economic
status on the academic performance of the students.
(b) Environment: This is also one of the factors that affect student’s academic
performance. The environment in which, students lives or are brought up also
influences their academic performance. Ti should be noted however that some
students from low social-
economic background may
be higher academic achieves
while others from higher social-economic background may be low achieves because
some of them abuse the opportunities. It is believed that what a child eat,
how and where
he lives greatly
affect his physical' development, a child success or
failure to a considerable extent depend on the type of environment he/ she
lives.
(c) Educational
background of parents: This affect students
academic performance in the sense that students whose parent have highly
educational standard perform very well because their parents were so concern
and conscious about their children academic performance since they have gone
through these processes, they also encourage and motivate them to work very
hard so that they can emulate them and even have higher educational standard
than them; they also create time to check their books and provide additional
help them through extra moral lesson while students from low or non-
educational background might not know the effect of it, in some instance those
with low educational background might, misuse their opportunity during their
time and will not want that to happen to their children.
(d) Truancy:
This is related to poor educational performances, it is a high level of
unexplained absence among students, and truancy can be seen both as an
educational outcome and as casual factor in explaining educational
performance. High level of unexplained
absence from school has been found to' be
associated with poor
child upbringing and
poor performance in schools. Also truancy has been found to be associated with
students from middle
and high socio-economic status due to nonchalant
attitude on the part of the parents towards the academic performance of their
children.
(e) Parental awareness: this is also one
of the factors affecting academic performance of students ins secondary
schools, parental psychologists believes that, most modern parents recognize the importance of education as a preparation
for successful living. They therefore willingly make reasonable sacrifice to
educate their children because they believes that education is more than any
assets and therefore encourage their children to read in order to develop their
physical, academic, intellectual and social qualities. In agreement with"
the above views, Odimegwu (2013) identifies and explains factors affecting
students academic performance as follows:
(a) Students-
Related factors: There are some reasons for poor
performance that are specific or related to the students and not related to
external factors. For example, bullying: The evolution of technology and social
media communication has in some counties if not most, made it easier than ever
for young people to be exposed to environments that can make bullying
unbearable and even more threatening than ever before. Self motivation, earning
disability is students-centered and may create an obstacle to reaching certain
academic standards. Motivation also can play a factor in poor performance. A
student may be fully capable of earning high, grades but might simply not care
enough about education to exert the effort needed for better academic
performance. Issues of motivation could be placed upon the parents or even the
school, but sometimes a child simply does not enjoy learning.
(b) Teachers
related factors: according to Odimegwu (2013), 
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