Academic performance of students in different type of schools: an exploratory study based on demographic factors, a case study in Kota Bharu / Nor Fatihah Binti Abd Razak ...[et al.]

Abd Razak, Nor Fatihah and Norshahidi, Nur Dalila and Che Yusof, Nur Syaliza Hanim and Abdul Malik, Mohd Azry (2018) Academic performance of students in different type of schools: an exploratory study based on demographic factors, a case study in Kota Bharu / Nor Fatihah Binti Abd Razak ...[et al.]. Journal of Mathematics and Computating Science, 4 (2). pp. 21-26. ISSN 0128: 0767

Official URL: http://jmcs.com.my/index.php/jmcs

Abstract

In Malaysia, there are several debates among society regarding the different academic performance between coeducational and single-gender school. Students from single-gender schools seem to perform better compared to students from coeducational schools by referring to their examination results. Since, there are less study conducted pertaining to this issue, this study was conducted to identify the influence factors of academic performance of students from single-gender and coeducational schools in Kota Bharu, Kelantan. This study was using secondary data where sample size was 414 samples. The Two Independent Sample T-test and Kruskal Wallis test were applied to examine the objectives. As a conclusion, there are significant difference in academic performance of students between single gender and coeducational schools. Meanwhile, the academic performance for male students (single gender) much better compared to mixed gender (coeducational). Female students in single gender schools excel in their academic performances compared to male students (single gender) and mixed (coeducational). This study recommend to add more variables related to the study and increase the number of samples or schools involved.

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Item Type:

Article

Creators:

Creators	Email / ID. Num
Abd Razak, Nor Fatihah	nfatih570@kelantan.uitm.edu.my
Norshahidi, Nur Dalila	dalila664@kelantan.uitm.edu.my
Che Yusof, Nur Syaliza Hanim	syaliza648@kelantan.edu.my
Abdul Malik, Mohd Azry	UNSPECIFIED

Subjects:

L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > Teaching (Principles and practice) > Computer network resources. Internet in education. Web-based instruction
L Education > LC Special aspects of education > Education of special classes of persons

Divisions:

Universiti Teknologi MARA, Kelantan > Machang Campus > Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences

Journal or Publication Title:

Journal of Mathematics and Computating Science

Journal:

UiTM Journal > Journal of Mathematics and Computing Science (JMCS)

ISSN:

0128: 0767

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