Literature Review: Factors That Affect Academic Performance

CHAPTER 2

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

Factors that Affect Academic Performance

Several studies have been conducted to find out students’ academic performance (Applegate and Daly, 2006; Cho and Chung, 2012; Krashen, 2005; Malik and Singh, 2016; Ali and Haider, 2013). The findings of the research studies focused that student performances are affected by different factors such as peer pressure, the family background and home environment, and the student’s preferred learning style.

Most academics observed that a child’s associate could impact his or her performance. Social influence looks at how individual thoughts, actions and feelings are influenced by social groups (Aronson, 2010). The desire to be wanted and acknowledged by everyone could

It is believed that learning styles play a small role on academic performance. Although the effect is small, it is accepted that learning preferences can help students enhance their own learning and so encourage self-directed learning. As stated by Rebecca Ezekiel, an accomplished English adviser and learning professional, learning styles have scholarly and personal impacts on the student. In academics, learning styles could lessen the anxiety and disappointment of the struggles in learning. It also expands the student’s existing learning and studying strategies. These could also help improve the child’s well-being. Having a learning preference could increase their self-confidence, improve their self-image, and give them insights strengths, weaknesses and habits. Knowing the students’ learning style is not meant to limit them, but to expand them – by helping them to work, learn and live more

According to Live Oak High School, honors’ classes are “demanding, advanced high school level classes”. This simply states that students of the stated class will be given additional lessons and tasks such as requirements and assessments. Students will truly have to be hardworking if they want to achieve good grades and at the same time fully understand the lessons their teachers taught them. This clarifies that students outside of the honors’ class will experience lesser struggles with their academic performances. In short, honors’ class will make students to truly do their best because they will be given more work to be done than those of the regular classes.

Sources:

What are Honors Courses? (n.d.). Retrieved November 10, 2017, from https://www.greatvaluecolleges.net/faq/what-are-honors-courses/

Intelligence. (n.d.). Retrieved November 10, 2017, from http://www.assessmentpsychology.com/intelligence.htm

Nugent, P. M. (2013, April 28). PRESSURE. Retrieved November 10, 2017, from https://psychologydictionary.org/pressure/

T.C. Williams High School Analysis – http://www.acpsk12.org/theogony/2010-2011/2010/11/12/outlook-ap-vs-honors-vs-general-education/

Live Oak High School –