Bangladesh e-Journal of Sociology. Volume 7, Number 2. July 2010

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Factors Affecting Students’ Academic Performance: A case study in Agartala Municipal Council Area
Amitava Raychaudhuri*, Manojit Debnath**, Saswata Sen*** and Braja Gopal Majumder****

Abstract: Number of empirical studies has been done to determine the factors affecting school students’ performance in the elementary level. The basic objective of the present study is that students’ performance in annual examination is associated with students’ attendance in the class, family income, mother’s and father’s education, teacher-student ratio, presence of trained teacher in school, sex of the student, and distance of schools. The study is based on primary data. The required information was collected through random sample survey of the student in the government and government aided schools and their households. By applying regression analysis it was found that factors like students’ attendance, Mother’s education & presence of trained teacher in the school have a positive impact of students’ academic performance.

1. Introduction: The main objectives of education, as S.K. Paul et al. held are to bring “changes not only in the amount of knowledge but also for achieving abilities to do something, to think and to acquire habits, skills and attitudes which characterize on individual who is socially accepted and adjusted”. Keeping these in view SARVA SHIKSHA ABHIYAN was launched in 2001 with the objective of implementing scheme of ensuring Education to children up to eleven years of age by 2007 and up to fourteen years of age by 2010.

Since interest in schooling as E.A.Hanushek (1996) held comes from a policy perspective which depends on several sources, schooling is perceived as an important determinant of individual productivity and learning. Thus schooling is considered as an instrument for