Student Achievement: The Implication Of Academic Achievement In Education

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Academic achievement has been variously defined: as level of proficiency attained in academic work or as formally acquired knowledge in school subjects which is often represented by percentage of marks obtained by students in examinations (Kohli, 1975). Researches have shown that besides being the criteria of promotion into the next class, academic achievement is an index of all future success in life. Superior achievers in the academic world generally tend to maintain their level, of achievement in the occupational field also. Moreover, Reis, Hahn and Barkowski(1984) reported that academic achievement also has a significant effect on self-evaluation of learners. To reach the goal of excellence in the academic sphere, and to optimize academic achievement to a maximum, a review of correlates of academic achievement and its implications for educationists and policy makers would be meaningful.

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Teaching is an intimate contact between a more mature personality and a less mature one. The more mature one is a teacher and less mature is a student and it is designed to further the education of the latter. He further stated that the teaching might be characterized as an activity aimed at the achievement of bearing and practiced in such names as to respect the student's intellectual integrity and capacity for independent judgment. He described the roles and behaviors of a teacher who is mainly responsible for instruction. The teacher is engaged more and more today in the implementation of new educational procedures taking advantage of all the resources of modern educational devices and methods. He is an educator and a counselor who tries to develop his pupils' abilities and

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