REGIONAL DIFFERENCES EFFECT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF FRESHMAN STUDENTS IN ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY, SIDIST KILO

Abstract

The utmost desire of any student i) a good performance. But
there are different hindrances that students in universities and colleges face
to perform as they wish. One amongst these is the effect of the region to
which one belong to. To study this effect, University students are classified as
Addis Ababa and Out-of Addis Ababa region. This article uses a suitable
statistical method to investigate the effect of a regional factor on the overall
performance of students. It also investigates the performance difference
between the two groups in the English language. The MANOVA results in a
significant regional difference effect in the performance of the two groups.
Especially in the English language, the difference persisted until the second
semester. To minimize this gap, some recorrtmendations are given at the end
of the paper.