By Siti Hajar Baharin, Razifah Othman & Nurhafizah Azizan
ABSTRACT
S
tudents are main assets of universities. For this reason,
a quality of excellent achievement of student becomes
one of a crucial aspect in order to be a world-class university. Thus, students have to place the greatest effort
on their academic to obtain a good grade to be a
great leader and manpower for the country. However,
many students have been stranded due to the failure in
the final examination due to some factors. Thus, this
study will be conducted to identify the most influencing
factors that lead to the failure and inferior of achievement. A questionnaire of 21 items distributed to all undergraduates’ students at UiTM Johor branch as respective respondents. Several factors affecting students’ academic achievement discussed in this research consist
of family characteristic and self-efficacy. In addition, the
Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of each respondent will be collected at the end of the semester.
The data will be analyzed using exploratory factor analysis and Pearson correlation of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). At the end of this research, highest
and lowest factors influencing the students’ achievement in their academic will be identified.
and school characteristics may influence students’
mathematics achievement in Nepal. By examining previous studies which have been published international
review, it was found that there were many studies on
educational achievement using multilevel regression
analysis, structural equational model and principal component analysis as stated by Demir, Kilic and Depren
(2009). However, this study used multiple regression analysis and ANOVA to prove the hypothesis test and relationship between the variable.
PROBLEM STATEMENT
Academic achievement is one of the factors that are
contributing to standards of higher education institutions.
The quality of students’ achievement and the number of
students graduate remains at top priority for administrator and educators in Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM).
However, the high failure rates in every semester lead to
the reducing the throughput of the University. There are
many factors could act as barrier and catalyst to students achieving a high CGPA that reflects their overall
academic performance. One of the factors that have
been identified is family characteristics. It also stated by
Pangeni (2014) which family plays a crucial role in shaping children’s educational experiences and academic
Keywords: Family Characteristics, Self-Efficacy, Interest, achievement in every society. Besides, self-efficacy
somehow will enable students to work harder, to persist,
Academic Achievement.
persevere, and seek help so they can complete a task
INTRODUCTION
as stated by Otunuku and Brown (2007).
Quality improvement of human resources closely related
to the quality of education as it associated with the high
learning achievement. According to Chapman et al.
(2005) \