Factors Affecting Students’ Academic Performance: A review

Abstract

Students' Academic Performance is vital for assessing a student's standing within a university. It makes it possible for academic staff, educational administrators, and decision-makers to precisely evaluate students taking various courses throughout a semester. Additionally, it served as a cautionary tale for the students to assess their performance level and make subsequent improvements. According to official statistics in Oman, the number of students who don't graduate on time and college dropouts rise dramatically yearly. These problems hindered Oman's higher education mission. All stakeholders in Oman's higher education system must pay attention to these statistics. The main objective of our paper is to identify what factors most influence students' academic performance. Systematic literature review is used as the technique to identify the factors. This paper presents a comprehensive review of the factors affecting student academic performance. The results revealed that low entry grades, family support, accommodation, student gender, previous assessment grade, student internal assessment grade, GPA, and students' e-learning activity are the most significant factors influencing students' academic performance. This finding would be helpful for other researchers interested in academic performance issues such as modeling the predicting students’ academic performance.