GROUP 1: FACTORS AFFECTING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE DURING PRE-CLINICAL AND CLINICAL YEARS: AUDIOLOGY AND SPEECH SCIENCES STUDENTS

Members:Chee Khai Ching A123220Speech /3Lim Ya Qin A123889 Speech/3Goh Choon May A123480 Audio/3Nurzila bt. Omar A122865 Audio/3Sakinah Che Ross A124136 Audio/3Fatimah Sh. Mohd A124189 Speech/3Tan Mon Ping A123543 Speech/3Siti Sarah Omar Mohd Azam A123703 Audio/3

INTRODUCTION There are internal and external factors that can

affect the academic performance of the students during pre-clinical and clinical years.

Researcher found that students who attend classes regularly obtained greater CGPA compared to those who absent from class.

This is supported by the Marburger (2001) who concluded that students who missed class on a given date were significantly more likely to respond incorrectly to questions which are in relation to material covered that day than were students who were present.

Students who are actively engage in learning process are observed to have greater CGPA (Ali et al., 2009).

According to Sansgiry and Sail, (2006), strategies of studying can contribute to the academic performance of the students.

According to Mouzan et al. (1991), the older students poor performance were generally affected to financial problems and family responsibilities which may cause major stress or tension that affect academic performances.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

Is there any difference between the factors affecting academic performance during pre-clinical and clinical years of Audiology and Speech Sciences students?

Is there any difference between academic performance during pre-clinical and clinical years of Audiology and Speech Sciences students ?

HYPOTHESIS

There is a difference between the factors affecting academic performance during pre-clinical and clinical years of Audiology and Speech Sciences students.

There is a difference between academic performance during pre-clinical and clinical years of Audiology and Speech Sciences students

GENERAL OBJECTIVE

1. To determine the factor that affects the academic performance most during pre-clinical and clinical years of Audiology and Speech Sciences students.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

1. To compare academic performance during pre-clinical and clinical years of Audiology and Speech Sciences students

2. To compare factors that affecting academic performance during pre-clinical and clinical years of Audiology and Speech Sciences students

METHODOLOGY

Study design Retrospective cohort study Questionnaires are distributed to the

selected undergraduates from Audiology and Speech Sciences Department.

o Target population All students from Audiology and Speech

Sciences Department in National University Malaysia (UKM).

METHODOLOGY Sampling method: Purposive sampling

o Sampling frame:• Name list of all third year and fourth year

Audiology and Speech Sciences students which can be obtained from Audiology and Speech Sciences Department.

Sample unit A student either third year or fourth year

from Audiology and Speech Sciences Department

METHODOLOGY Sample size: Total subject: 45 students.(20: third year

students , 25 students from fourth year students) n0 =Z2p(1-p)/e2

= (1.6452)(0.5)(0.5)/(0.12)= 67

n = n0/1+ [(n0-1)/N]

=67/1+[(67-1)/139]= 45

N=amount of total population

Z= Z-scorep=estimated proportion of an attribute that is present in the populatione= confidence interval

Inclusion criteria: All the third year and fourth year Audiology and

Speech Sciences Students Exclusion criteria:

Audiology and Speech Sciences students who withdraw from the courses.

Data Collection - The questionnaire will be distributed and it will be

collected on the same week.

VARIABLES

Independent variables: Factors that affecting academic performance (Stress,

time management, class attendance and learning style)

Dependent variables: Academic performance of Audiology and Speech

Sciences students during pre-clinical and clinical years.

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

Academic performance of pre-clinical years will be defined as average of Purata Nilai Gred Semester (PNGS) from first year until second year first semester.

Academic performance of clinical years will be defined as average of PNGS from second year second semester until third year first semester.

2010 2011

December January February

Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8

First Discussion : Outline of the research (Introduction, research question, objective, methodology and Gantt Chart)

Survey and literature review

Second Discussion : Draft proposal

Submit draft proposal to Pn Haniza

Preparation in refining the proposal and presentation slides

Presentation of the proposal

2011February March

Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14Presentation of the proposal and questionnaires

3rd Discussion : Develop Questionnaires and conduct pilot study

Distribution of questionnaire to subjects

Data collection

4th Discussion : Analysis of data using SPSS

5th Discussion : Interpretation of results

Writing reports

Compilation of reports

Proof-reading of the reports

Submission of reports