A Study of Performance of Teacher and Non-Teacher Streams Graduates with Reference to Natural Sciences I: A Test about the Location

Abstract

Empirical results of the academic performance of four batches
of graduates· from the natural science streams of the Faculty of Science.
Addis Ababa University are provided. A non·parametric statistical analysis
based on the ranks of achievement of graduates in the major subject
areas as wefl as in overa/l performance was conducted. The purpose of the
undertaking was to see if students from the teacher and non-teacher
streams performed differently. The results revealed against the commonly
held bias, that there is no significant difference in the performance of the
two categories of students in spite of the fact that those who were
streamlined into the non-teacher programmes performed better than the
other group at the end of their freshman year. This was true for all batches
who graduated in July 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998.