Relationship Between Maritime Students’ Attitude towards School Related Factors and Academic Performance

Academic performance is considered one of the important measures of student progress ineducational institutions. Therefore, identifying to some extent the factors that might affect this performancewas explored on this study using the school-related variables. The study aims to determine the correlation between the academic performance of Maritime students and attitude towards school-related factors inters of teachers, other students, the way classes are handled, instructional materials and facilities. Descriptive type of research method was utilized in the study with 165 Maritime students as respondents. Results revealed that the Maritime students have high positive attitude primarily in the school facilities followed by Instructional materials and other students while the least variables towards teachers and the way classes are handled. The variables related to teaching and learning process are positively correlated with the academic performance which signifies that those Maritime students with higher positive attitude towards teachers, the way classes are handled and instructional materials have also higher academic performance.

Keywords: academic performance, maritime students, instructional materials