The Impact of Mathematics on Academic Performance of Students in TVET Institutions in Ghana.

Abstract

The poor performance of students in tertiary institutions should be a concern not only to the administrators and educators, but also to industry players. Mathematics affects many aspects of life and it is impossible to escape from the application of mathematics. The paper seeks to investigate the significance of Mathematics in the academic performance of students. The objectives are to find the factors that affect the learning of mathematics and to determine the significance of Mathematics in academic performance of students. The research design adopted was quantitative in nature and content analysis was sued to study a total of 158 graduates from 2002 to 2013 graduation years from eight departments of Cape Coast Polytechnic now. Pearson correlation and simple linear regression analysis were applied to identify the relationship pattern between mathematics and English language and the class they obtained. Mathematics affected the academic performance of the students. Also it is worth noting that when a student passed English language that did not necessarily improved the academic performance of the student it had 0.633 as significance value which is higher than 0.05.