A statistical analysis of factors influencing performances of the college students

Many studies are carried out to explore factors affecting students’ performance (academic achievement). The purpose of this study is to identify the factors which are more important and also influencing the student's performances at College in chennai. A set of questionnaire was distributed to the respective respondents. Several factors that being discussed in this study are measures student's performances such as, parent age, parent education, student's relationship with staffs, academic assessment, family income, motivation, effort taken by the students, anxiety of the students. The data is analyzed using reliability testing, Pearson correlation, regression analysis and factor analysis of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Zimmer and Fuller (1996) in their survey article of the factors affecting students ’performance in statistics found that statistics anxiety and attitude, and computer experience are linked to students ’performance in statistics courses.