A CHI SQUARE APPROACH TO DETERMINE THE EFFECT OF STUDENTS’ RESIDENCE ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

This paper focused on residential effect on students’ academic performance. This discussion may twist or elaborate on this concept towards asking questions such as; does students’ residential type impair or encourage study? The contingency table, the chi square and the P-hat techniques are applied to answer the research question based on hypothesis testing. The analysis based on the above methods revealed that students’ resident has both positive and negative effect on students’ academic performance. The finding further indicated that students within the university campus have reading appetite than students residing in mixed residential areas. Although, further investigation revealed that reading culture is highly noticeable for both categories of students during examination but on ordinary times, students on university hall of residence has reading appetite than their counterpart off campus, the contrary is also true. On the other hand, this depends on individual priority and motivation. The researchers in their view intuitively observed that students’ academic performance is individual based but not perfectly on residential type but on life style, association and self-priority.