The Academic Achievement of Secondary Students in Bangladesh: Assessing the Role of Socioeconomic Status, School Attributes, and Academic Activities

Table 1

Stepwise multivariate regression predicting academic achievement considering four separate sets of variables.

Predictors	Standardized β coefficients	SE	Level of significance
Personal attributes (model I)
Religion	−0.100	0.071
Sex	0.075	0.053
R^2		0.016
F		8.454
Socioeconomic status (model II)
SES	0.289	0.009
R^2		0.083
F		94.651
School attributes (model III)
Teacher-student ratio	0.354	0.003
Performance	0.124	0.066
Education system	−0.149	0.077
R^2		0.086
F		32.439
Academic activities (model IV)
Self-regulation	0.089	0.003
Communication	0.077	0.007
R^2		0.021
F		11.363

SE: standard error. .