Cognitive ability, socioeconomic status, and school quality on academic performances of UP Diliman students
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2016-12
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This study aims to determine how well the marginalized students perform in the
University of the Philippines, Diliman considering the disadvantages they may
have encountered in their formal and informal education environment. A cross-
sectional dataset is used in the study which is composed of 3,702
undergraduate students of the graduating batch of 2014. This study analyzes
the influence of cognitive ability, school environment and socioeconomic
background on academic performance and derives their direct and indirect
effects to obtain their aggregate effect on academic performance. A Two-Stage
Least Squares Model is used to estimate the factors affecting academic
performance to omit the possible presence of multicollinearity. The result
shows that the main determinant of academic performance is his or her
cognitive ability. However, high school and socioeconomic background do not
have a significant effect on the academic performance of a UP Diliman student.
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cognitive ability, Socioeconomic status, school quality, academic prformances, UP Diliman