Developing a Risk Model to identify factors which critically affect Secondary School students’ performance in Mathematics.

Authors : Stylıanos TSAKİRTZİS, Ioannis GEORGAKOPOULOS

Pages : 63-72

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Publication Date : 2020-12-15

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :A concrete knowledge on Mathematics is essential on the ground that it constitutes to be a key-ingredient to a brilliant academic career. Though, a lot of students encounter insurmountable difficulties and as a consequence they fail their Mathematical courses. That holds true particularly on the case of secondary school students. Thereby, controlling the risk of students’ failure in Mathematics is of utmost importance. The paper demonstrates a risk model which identifies factors that critically affect secondary school students’ performance and prioritize them according to their contribution to the risk occurrence. The risk model has been built on the base of a binary logistics regression analysis on students’ behavioral engagement data. These data reflect students’ effort and involvement in the entire learning process. The risk model development process is presented in the context of a case study on a specific Mathematical course, delivered at a Greek private Secondary School insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(Gymnasium);. The binary logistics’ regression outcome has proved that students’ achievement on schoolwork and review packages are factors which critically affect the students’ performance in the respective course. It is also important to highlight that schoolwork completed appeared to have significant contribution to the risk occurrence, indicating that schoolwork completed could be regarded as a cardinal factor which critically affects students’ performance in the context of the respective study.
Keywords : risk factors, risk model, students achievement, engagement