Evaluating the Impact of Advanced Educational Infrastructure on Academic Performance in District Charsadda

Abstract

The Performance of the Schools in district Charsadda was studied with the help of secondary data. Gender of school, location, medium of instruction, library in school, building own, basic facilities that is computer lab, science lab, electricity, toilet, office, playground and total number of students in school found as statistically significant. The data was used to compute the School Performance Index (SPI), Percentage of Passing Students (PPS) and Percentage of First Division (PFD) of the students in the schools of district Charsadda. The SPI, PPS and PFD were computed for the government high and higher secondary schools for male and female in district Charssadda. The included factors like gender wise distribution, location wise, level of school, medium of instruction and nature of construction of schools were considered. The factors like gender of school, location, medium of instruction, library in school, building own, and availability of facilities like computer lab, science lab, electricity, toilet, playground office and total number of students in school found as statistically significant for SPI. The regression modeling of PPS and PFD showed factors like location, level of school, library in school, availability of facilities like computer lab, science lab, playground, the total number of students in 9th class, the total number of students in 10th class, the total number of teachers in school, the number of non-teaching staff, total number of SST General, SST-Science, CT-General and Physical education teacher found as statistically significant. The output of logistic regression showed the availability of library in school, science lab and computer lab found as statistically significant factors for the satisfactory performance of male schools in district. Also, the logistic regression model for female schools in district Charsadda showed the availability of library in school, science lab and computer lab found as statistically significant factors for the satisfactory performance. The logistic regression for male and female government schools in district Charsadda found statistically significant.