Factors Affecting the Student Success: A Survey Study

Abstract

The primary purpose of the study was to examine the factors affecting students’ success in mathematics. The researcher used a descriptive survey was implemented in order to collect data from the sampled group to complete the study. Eighty students from two schools participated and completed the questionnaire. The researchers analysed the questionnaire data using mean and frequency by performing SPSS 16.0 setting 0.05 level of significance, whereas, the interview data were managed and analyzed using computer program NVivo 12 plus. The findings of the study explored that work load and motivation were highly correlated. Furthermore, teaching methods and home background were not correlated. In addition to this the researcher found that motivation and prior knowledge in mathematics had highly influenced on students’ final grade. Moreover, peer interaction had valuable proportion of contribution to the final achievement of students in mathematics. However, some certain aspects and components of adopted model need to be upgraded in terms of the context of educational setting. Thus, it is important to take into account students success in mathematics in order to implement different model based learning for mathematics teaching and learning and to have comprehensible understanding of the factors that benefit and hinder the academic progress of an individual’s education.