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Factors influencing non-academic achievements of the Bangladeshi students- An online questionnaire based study


 Introduction

Non-academic achievements are equally prioritized along with academic achievements throughout the world and similarly in Bangladesh. But there are no literature addressing which factors are influencing student’s non-academic achievements. As a result, this study was conducted in order to find which factors are influencing student’s academic achievements.
Methods

The data for the study was collected through an online google form. The link of the google form was shared through different social networking sites and the responses were completely voluntary. The non-academic achievement score was the response variable of the study which was calculated from the different criterion of the non-academic achievements. Residence, parent’s socio-economic status and encourages or not were inspected as the potential factors influencing non-academic achievements. Regression model was built between response and explanatory variables using backward elimination technique to select which factors are influencing non-academic achievements.
Results

Among the potential factors final model suggests that only father’s education level, parent’s total monthly income and whether parent’s encourage to extra-curricular activities or not were found as responsible factors influencing student’s non-academic achievements.
Conclusion

As the factors- father’s educational status, parent’s monthly total income- are beyond the control so what all the parents can do is to encourage their children to do extra-curricular activities as this may lead to more non-academic achievements in the life of their children. Initiative should be taken to build awareness among the parents so that they can understand the importance of non-academic achievements as well as encouraging their children to do extra-curricular activities.