Predicting Students’ Academic Achievement in Biology by Their Academic Resilience and Its Dimensions

Izunna Shedrack Nwuba; Josephine Nwanneka Okoli

doi:10.59519/mper8101

Authors

Izunna Shedrack Nwuba Nnamdi Azikiwe University Author
Josephine Nwanneka Okoli Nnamdi Azikiwe University Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.59519/mper8101

Keywords:

Academic Achievement, Academic Resilience, Biology, Secondary School Students

Abstract

The quest to identify factors that could be influenced to drive academic excellence in a 21st century classroom fueled the study on predictive influence of academic resilience on secondary school students’ academic achievement in Biology, applying a predictive correlational research design. 1,198 High School Students, obtained using multistage sampling procedure, were the respondents. Academic Resilience Scale (ARS) and Students academic records were employed for data collection. The adapted instrument (ARS), when pilot tested for internal consistency using Cronbach Alpha, yielded a reliability coefficient value of 0.81. Regression analyses were utilized to analyze data. The results revealed among others that academic resilience caused 51.5% variance in students’ achievement in Biology, indicating that academic resilience significantly and positively contributed to secondary school students' achievement in Biology, with all the dimensions of academic resilience, individually and jointly, contributing to students’ achievement in biology, significantly. Considering the findings, it was recommended among others that education stakeholders should organize orientation programs and seminars in schools to educate students on strategies that can be employed to strengthen resilience in academic settings.

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