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Analysis of the Determinants of Academic Achievement of Primary Education: A Case Study on Grade Eight Students at Lay Gayint Wereda in Amhara Regional State

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Background: Ethiopia is one of the countries which placed education at the center of its strategies for development and democratization, with strong policies promoting quality of educational provision and rapid expansion of educational opportunity to previously underserved populations (AUC, 2005; TGE, 1994). Objective: The core objective behind this study is to identify key factors affecting output indicator of primary education quality at Lay Gayint Woreda in South Gondar zone. That is to identify factors which affect output indicator of quality of primary education, the determinant indicators on outcome variable, to select the most important variables that are related to output indicator of quality of primary education in Lay Gayint Woreda. Methods: In this study multiple linear regression model, factor analysis or principal component analysis was used. Conclusion: This study used regression analysis and factor/ principal component analysis and the following results were obtained. From the selected variables the most significance factors are counseling office, job satisfaction of teachers, way of monitoring and evaluation, school leadership and library service, sex, work load at home, time taken to arrive in the school and preschool attendance, schools input and leadership factors and teachers activity have a significance effect on the school output. The variables supportive books at home, head of house hold educational level, house hold size, age of the student, number of students in class, teachers academic qualification, exam condition, laboratory service, availability duplicating machine, toilet and water service in school had not significance effect on the output of schools.

Published in Science Journal of Education (Volume 2, Issue 4)
DOI 10.11648/j.sjedu.20140204.15
Page(s) 131-136
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Keywords

Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Regression Analysis

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    Yibeltal Arega, Tewodros Getinet, Hailemariam Abebe. Analysis of the Determinants of Academic Achievement of Primary Education: A Case Study on Grade Eight Students at Lay Gayint Wereda in Amhara Regional State. Sci J Educ. 2014;2(4):131-136. doi: 10.11648/j.sjedu.20140204.15

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  • Department of Statistics, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

  • Department of Statistics, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

  • Department of Mathematics, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

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