Factors Related with Academic Achievement of High School Students in Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia

Abstract

The current study investigated several factors related to academic achievement among high school students in Ratanakiri province, Cambodia. The purposes of this study were; 1) to explore the relationship between authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, parental support, self-efficacy, academic confidence, academic effort, study attitude, teacher educational expectations, peers aspirations, values of education and academic achievement 2) to find out what factors affecting academic achievement among high school students in Ratanakiri province, Cambodia. This research utilized the questionnaire as a form of data collection. We applied a cluster random sampling technique to choose two out of several public high schools in Ratanakiri province and a convenience sampling technique to select the sample.235 respondents between 15-20 years old were chosen to join the study. Pearson's r correlation was used to examine the relationship between the eleven determinants variables and academic achievement. Multiple linear regressions were used to find the effective power of each determinant variable on academic achievement. This study demonstrates a positive significant correlation between students' values on education and academic achievement but negative significant relationships between authoritative style, permissive style, self-efficacy, parental support, with academic achievement. Among the 11 determinate variables, our result show that4 determinants namely value of education, self-efficacy, teacher educational expectations, and parental support, are able to effect on academic achievement. Among those, self-efficacy had the most affective power on academic achievement.