STATISTICAL STUDY OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS OF FEDERAL UNIVERSITY KASHERE, GOMBE STATE, NIGERIA
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.56892/bima.v2i02.102Keywords:
Agreement coefficient, First year result, Final year result, Kappa Statistic.Abstract
The aim of this research is to perform some statistical analysis on first year and final year
results of Students of Faculty of Science, Federal University Kashere. Some descriptive
statistics were computed and Cohen’sKappa Statistic was used to investigate whether the
final-year result can be predicted using the first year result of the students. The proposed
reliability index gave a value of 0.49 which is considered to be a moderate agreement
coefficient. This means that the first year results of the students can be used to predict their
final year results fairly accurately. Sixty eight percent (68%) of students retained their first
year academic classification on completion of their studies in the University; twenty three
percent (23%) improved their first year result on completion while nine percent (9%)
regressed.
