Student Academic Performance Linked with The Social and Economic Development of a Country

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The social and economic development of the country is directly linked with student academic performance. Educational institutes play important role in the development of nations in every field. Higher education is one of the most important tools for research that is so much productive for each and every field. The students’ performance plays an important role in producing the best quality graduates who will become great leader and manpower for the country thus responsible for the country’s economic and social development (Ali et.al, 2009).. In Pakistan, the numbers of both private and public sector universities are playing their role in promotion of higher education. In Pakistan there are four education sectors included public, private, military and virtual universities. All universities of Pakistan recognize by HEC organization. The HEC facilitated the development of higher educational system in the country with main purpose of upgrading the universities and colleges in the country to be main focus on the high learning of education, research, and development.

In university level there have more facilities rather than college level, in universality level master and PhD programs are studied, few years ago maximum universities of Pakistan also introducing the HONS (4 year) program. So in the universities some identified the factors that influencing academic performance of students. All those factors that face the students in universities those are written here one by one social, psychological, economic, environmental and personal all these factors influence the academic performance of the students. These all factors vary person to person and country to country, for example in Pakistan the students face different problems in educational institutions rather than other countries.

In Pakistan from last few years the government trying to improve the literacy rate and education so that’s why most of the educational institution in Pakistan improving the educational level through skilled full peoples best technologies and giving more facilities to students and also teachers. That’s a reason the researcher find out such factors that influencing student’s academic performance especially in university level students, this level is so much important for future of every student.

Mostly previous study of student’s academic performance conducting on such issues like Communication, Family stress, Proper guidance, Learning facilities, Socio Economic Status of the student intake, Rural/Urban location, gender difference, teacher’s education and teaching style, class environment. These all issues are different in rural and urban areas.

This research is focuses on the public universities in Lahore one of the biggest city of Pakistan. Students of government universities of Lahore are taken as population and focuses on the result of the student academic performance.

In this study the researcher will measure the student academic performance through different ways like CGPA, GPA and their test result. Some of the researcher around the word used the GPA of the students to measure the student academic performance (Darling, 2005; Broh, 2000; Stephen & Schaban, 2002). They used GPA to measure student performance in particular semester. Some other researcher, they measure student performance through the result of particular subject or the previous year result (Hijazi & Naqvi, 2006).

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