- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- The influence of student perceptions on academic performance, 2000
- Creator:
- Gunter, Randolph S.
- Date of Original:
- 2000-12-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- This study examined the influence of student perceptions of satisfaction with administrative leadership, parental involvement, and improvements in study habits on the academic performance of Upward Bound participants in grades nine through twelve. Furthermore, this study was designed to specify the role of student perceptions of satisfaction with administrative leadership, parental involvement and improvements in study habits in explaining academic performance by simultaneously controlling for the effects of eleven additional variables, which were categorized as demographic and programmatic variables. The study used the self-actualization conceptual framework which held that individuals are driven by a desire to achieve and fulfill an ultimate goal. Data were gathered from 9 Upward Bound Programs and 129 respondents in the Southeastern United States by using the Upward Bound Satisfaction Index. The data indicated that improvements in study habits was the only major study variable significantly related to academic performance. Collectively, satisfaction with administrative leadership, parental involvement and improvements in study habits were more important in explaining academic performance than the demographic control variables. However, the programmatic variables were more important in explaining academic performance than both the major study variables and the demographic control variables. Of all the variables found to be significantly related to academic performance, the strongest correlate was geographical setting. Implications of these findings center around how Upward Bound programs should focus at ention on programmatic attributes and improvements in study habits in order to improve the academic performance of Upward Bound participants.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:2000_gunter_randolph_s.pdf
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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