Factors Affecting the Academic Performance of Freshmen Students Major Ii English at Bestlink College of the Philippines

Abstract

Students’ academic gain and learning performance are affected by numerous factors including gender, age, socio-economic status, teacher factors, student factors, family factors, environmental factors, and psychological factors. A lot of studies have been conducted in the area of student achievement and these studies identify and analyze the number of factors that affect the academic performance of the student at school, college, and even at the university level. Their findings identify student's effort, previous schooling, parent’s educational background, family income, self-motivation of students, age of the student, learning preferences, and entry qualification as important factors that affect students’ academic performance in a different setting. This study used Descriptive method design. The survey used purposive sampling techniques to gather information about the factors affecting the academic performance of freshman students Major in English at Bestlink College of the Philippines. The data gathered were carefully analyzed, tallied, and tabulated. The results obtained from the tabulation were statistically treated using ranking, frequency, percentage, and mean. The researcher found out that the teacher assists their students in improving their academic performance by giving hands-on activities, instructional materials, reminders, and reporting that can be seen in the everyday discussion of a teacher. From the conducted study, the researcher found out the crafted guide to enrich the academic performance of the freshmen first-year college English major students. The teacher should develop intervention activities that may help students improve their academic performance. Students now are more interactive. They can easily understand the lesson if they are involved or they are the ones doing the task connected to the lesson. And today, they should not feel that they need to learn on their own. Instead, they should feel that someone is willing to be involved in his/her learning or growth as a student.