Evaluation of students’ Engagement and Academic Achievement at University Level

Ghazanfar Ali, Syeda Zunaira Fatima, Ashfaque Ahmad Shah

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The effectiveness of an educational organization depends highly on the performance of its students and teachers. This study was intended the relationship of academic engagement with academic achievement of university students. Purpose were to explore student engagement of physical and social sciences students of university of Sargodha, compare the student engagement of physical and social sciences student of university of Sargodha, Determining the relationship of student engagement and academic achievement in physical and social sciences student at university of Sargodha. A questionnaire was adapted for measuring students’ academic engagement indicators from National survey of student engagement (NSSE, 2019). Total 400 respondent of social sciences and physical sciences student in different departments of university of Sargodha were selected as sample of the study. Questionnaire was administered on the sample of the study. Data were analyze through SPSS. Descriptive statistics mean and standard deviation were calculated to find out the differences between the academic indicators. There was no significant difference found in the Academic challenge, Experience with faculty, Campus environment, and Overall engagement with respect to gender. There was no significant difference found in the academic engagement of students of faculty of physical sciences and faculty social sciences. A positive relationship was found between student engagement and academic achievement of students.


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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21015/vtess.v9i4.789

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