Factors affecting academic performance of graduate students at NEGST

Abstract

This study reports an attempt to find out some of the factors affecting the academic performance of graduate students at the Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology IN.E.G.S.TI. In order to achieve this purpose an extensive review of the related 11terature was scrutinized. These dealt with the following areas 1) The effect of lack of finance on academic performance. 2) The effect of age on academic performance. 3) The effect of language proficiency effect of family performance. 5) The on academic performance. 4) The responsibilities on academic effect of academic aspirations on academic performance. B) The effect of student-faculty interactions on academic performance. The data collection involved the use of a questionnaire with both close-ended and open-ended questions. Some of the close-ended questions were developed using the Liker t: Scale of Summated Rating to determine the opinion of the respondents. The questionnaire was administered directly by the researcher to twenty-seven graduate students. The research sought to investigate some of the factors affecting the academic performance of graduate students at N.E.G.S.T. The test of the difference between the means ~f two independent Sample groups was used as a statistical instrument to test hypotheses.