The effect of social, familial and educational factors of academic failure from the perspective of Ramsar Campus students

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Experts believe that one of the best ways to create and maintain a good education system is to train efficient and professional people. Academic failure occurs when there is a significant gap between potential and actual ability of individuals in their academic activities and academic progress. Therefore, increasing the quality of the education system is considered to be the most influential factor in developing countries. Therefore, in this study we aimed to investigate the effect of social, family and educational factors on academic drop of Ramsar campus students. METHODS: This is a cross sectional descriptive anaiytical study. Based on cochrains formula, 306 students were selected by random sampling and completed questionnaires.The statistical population includes all students of 91-94 pharmacy and medical students who are studying on the campus of mazandaran university of medical science Ramsar in academic year 2016. That includes the total number of students with and without academic decline. FINDINGS: In this study, 61 medical and pharmacy students with a mean age of 24.14±1.6 years had a mean interest in major, marital status, good income in medical and pharmaceutical fields (32.8 % ,46.3%, 49.2%, respectively). Also, lack of parental follow-up, parental differences, type of residence, divorce and parental differences, parental death, parental illness (32.8%, 37 .7 % ,31.1%, 36.1%, 62.3% and 41% respectively) were effective in students' academic decline CONCLUSION: : In our study, social, family, and educational factors have been effective factors in students' academic decline in Ramsar Campus. KEY WORDS: Academic drop, Social, Family, Educational, students' viewpoints