Reliability Measures of Academic Performance

Abstract

One of the factors that determines the class of the degree that a student has after academic programme is the first year result. This is a general claim and was investigated in this study. Data used for the investigation were the results of graduating students in the Faculty of Science in University of Ilorin, Nigeria in 2012. The data were analysed with R GUI, although a program was written for the tau statistic since it is not available in it. The aim was to study the proportion of students that will graduate with the classification of degree they started with. The objectives are to predict future occurrences for students and study the trend of performance for students. Agreement index of tau statistic was used to determine agreement level of first year results with final year results. Department of Physics had the lowest agreement. Even at that, it was significantly high.