An Assessment of Self Confidence as A Determinant of Students Academic Achievements in The University of Bamenda

Yekpu Eleen Ndze
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Yekpu Eleen Ndze: University of Bamenda, Cameroon

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2022, vol. 6, issue 12, 544-549

Abstract: This study sets out to study self confidence as a determinant of students Academic achievements in the University of Bamenda. Building self confidence is salient as far as success in academics is concerned. Low academic achievements are indicators of internal inefficiency which could equally affect external efficiency adversely. Low academic achievements could to a certain extent be attributed to lapses in self confidence building by students. This to a large extent could adversely influence students’ self efficacy in academics. Within the context of this study, 412 students were selected to constitute the sample of the study. The purposive sampling technique was adopted and the main instrument for data collection was the questionnaire. The tool for data analysis was the spearman rank correlation and the following results were obtained: for the hypothesis one, it was found that goal setting significantly influences students academic achievement by 73.9%(p-value

Date: 2022
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