PATTERN RECOGNITION ON THE FACTORS OF ACADEMIC
FAILURE OF
STUDENTS’
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1. INTRODUCTION
In life there is always a success and
failure. Whether one succeeds or fails there
is always a reason for having been such.
Students often experience those things while
studying.
Many students that enter Pangasinan
State University came from families that
have different socioeconomic status. This
gives the different educational needs. A
research shows that children from low social
economic status (SES) households and
communities develop academic skills slower
than children from higher SES groups
(Morgan, Farkas, Hillemeier, & Maczuga,
2009).
Educational system is considered the
most influential factor in developing
countries; this is because students achieve a
position as a result of their academic
success. On the other hand, academic failure
among students also occurs. The impact of
college failure can cause lasting damage to
self-esteem, and the consequences can
influence an inter lifetime, (Pitcher, 2006).
According to the 2016 Annual
Poverty Indicators Survey (APIS), the
country has about 3.8 million out-of-school
children and youth or about 10 percent of
the 39 million Filipinos with age range six to
24 years old. Out-of-school children and
youth refers to family members six to 14
years old who are not attending formal
school; and family members 15 to 24 years
old who are currently out of school, not
gainfully employed, and have not finished
college or post-secondary course. Also it
was stated that the most common reasons
among OSCYs for not attending school were
marriage or family matters (42.3 percent),
high cost of education or financial concerns
(20.2 percent), and lack of personal interest
(19.7 percent).
Continuous academic failure leads
students to dropout. In the Philippines, the
dropout rates revealed an alarming 83.7
percent, meaning the country is producing
2.13 million college dropouts annually. In
this case, the Philippine government must, in
the next education generation or the next 14
years be able to reverse the current situation
from 80 percent of college students enrolled
in private schools and 20 percent in state
universities and colleges (SUCs) to 20
percent, private colleges, and 80 percent
SUCs (Manila Bulletin, 2012).
From these read data this implies that
there are many factors that affect students’