An Empirical Analysis of the Influential Factors of College Students' Academic Performance

Abstract

Based on the scores of selected undergraduates with two kinds of educational system in an ordinary university, with the help of variance analysis and multiple regression, the effects of different factors and their interaction on the total scores and the scores of moral, intellectual and physical courses are studied by using the ideas of discovering (the difference of students' scores in different categories), verifying (the effect of influential factors and their interaction on students' scores) and analyzing (trends and causes of scores changed based on different factors ). The key results are as follows: (1) College students' scores are significantly correlated with time, gender, birthplace, starting point for admission and their interaction, but the influence of different factors on each course is diverse. (2) The scores of female students are higher than those of male students, especially public courses; in addition to public courses, the scores of technical-school-source students are higher than those of high-school-source students, especially moral courses; students with high entrance score remain excellent in college, especially specialized courses. (3) The students in the 1st and 2nd years have the lowest academic performance, the reason of which are that many students failed; the grades of specialized course determine the total grades. (4) Curriculum classification plays a key role in studying influential factors of college students' scores. The research can provide reference for practical teaching work.