Predictors of Science Performance of Senior High School Students

Abstract

Given the worldwide interest in improving students’ academic performance, it is important to inspect the variables that influence student performance. Based on this premise, the study examined the effect of sex, academic strand, goal orientation, and self-efficacy on science achievement. To achieve this aim, the researcher used the descriptive causal methodology of research, and the selected sample size was 193 senior high school students from three academic strands different by using a stratified random sampling technique. The researcher used (SPSS) to analyze the collected data, statistical tests such as: mean, SD, multiple regression, analysis of variance, and T-test. Study findings indicated that the goal orientation of both the male and female senior high school students in all academic strands considered was Mastery Oriented., both the male and female students have a neutral science self-efficacy in general, male students tend to have a higher mean score in the science achievement test than the female student and sex and academic strand is a predictor of science achievement.