Pre-enrollment factors and academic performance of first-year science students at a Nigerian university: a multivariate analysis |
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Authors: | Abimbola S Young |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics, University of Benin, PMB 1154 Benin City, Nigeria |
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Abstract: | Multi-group discriminant analysis is used to identify the pre-enrollment demographic and academic factors which best separate out the success classes in the first-year examinations of science students at a Nigerian university. Each science-based faculty is separately analysed to control for faculty differences in all the variables used. The pre-eminent predictor of success is performance in the specialist subjects of the university s matriculation examination. Other variables selected for use in the discriminant functions depend on the faculty group. Misallocation rates are generally low and, exept for one faculty group, discrimination is uni-dimensional. |
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