Analysing the impact of poor teaching on student performance

Abstract

Teaching is a process of knowledge dissemination from teacher to the student. Superior teaching stimulate student to study and perform at least as expected. Poor teaching demotivate them which catalyse the process of diminishing interest on the topic. Some recent study indicate that proper knowledge dissemination impacts student satisfaction. However, the co-relation between teaching effectiveness and final grade is still not clearly mentioned in literature. This study proposes a quantifiable measure that indicates the degradation with respect to expected performance of a student. It also investigates the probable relationship of poor performance by both teacher and student. The scope is limited to theoretical courses of traditional classroom-based education. The analysis is based on nearly 0.2 million real transaction records obtained from an academic institute of national importance in India. The result of association mining suggests that performance degradation is inversely related to teaching quality. The trend is similar for all categories of student.