i UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS ERASMUS UNVERSITY ROTTERDAM HO CHI MINH CITY INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES VIETNAM THE NETHERLANDS VIETNAM – THE NETHERLANDS PROGRAMME FOR M A IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DETERMIN[.]
UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY VIETNAM ERASMUS UNVERSITY ROTTERDAM INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES THE NETHERLANDS VIETNAM – THE NETHERLANDS PROGRAMME FOR M.A IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DETERMINANTS OF STUDENT’S ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF MEKONG RIVER DELTA BY TRAN CHI NGUYEN MASTER OF ARTS IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY, NOVEMBER 2016 i LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY VIETNAM THE NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES THE HAGUE VIETNAM - NETHERLANDS PROGRAMME FOR M.A IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DETERMINANTS OF STUDENT’S ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF MEKONG RIVER DELTA A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS By TRAN CHI NGUYEN Academic Supervisor: DR PHAM KHANH NAM HO CHI MINH CITY, NOVEMBER 2016 ii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com DECLARATION This is to guarantee that the complete contents of this thesis (Determinants of student’s academic performance: The case of Mekong River Delta) which are drafted by me and the thesis includes my knowledge and my literature reviews This thesis has not already been submitted for any degree and it only submitted for only for degree of Master of Art in Development Economic to Vietnam - The Netherlands Program I take full responsibility for the whole contents that I wrote TRAN CHI NGUYEN iii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would to thank the dedicated assistance and supports of my supervisor, Dr PHẠM KHÁNH NAM, during thesis time The valuable comments and advices play a key role in order to help to finish my thesis Besides, I sincerely thank all lecturers - officers in Vietnam – Netherlands Program, especially Prof NGUYỄN TRỌNG HOÀI and Dr TRƯƠNG ĐĂNG THỤY, for their dedicated instruction, for all the knowledge from lectures and the supporting for my thesis during the course I also would like to thank my classmates, especially Mr ĐẠT ANH, and my friend Ms THIÊN KIM, who has helped and supported me to complete my work Finally, I wish lecturer team all the best and hope they will achieve many success in future path iv LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ABBREVIATION GSO: General statistics offices UNESCO: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization OLS: Ordinary Least Square VIF: Variance Inflation Factor EPF: Education Production Function VHLSS: Vietnamese Household Living Standard Survey GPA: Grade Point Average IV: Instrumental-Variable BLUE: Best Linear Unbiased Estimator IQ : intelligence quotient EQ : emotional quotient v LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ABSTRACT This paper focus on examines factors that influence student academic performance in Mekong River Delta, Vietnam Basing on a survey that is conducted by the author in 2015, 297 students of Can Tho University have filtered to examine The Education production function of Bowles is applied and identified by a model includes eight variables, which are related academic performance of student The OLS estimation results show that out of variables are chosen have significant influence on learning outcomes of student and the rest variables have no significant effect on student academic performance in this study Hence, from the estimation results of this thesis, the suitable policies will be suggested in order to improve learning outcomes of student who experienced under performance group vi LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com TABLE CONTENTS CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Problem statements 1.2 Research objectives 1.3 Research questions 1.5 Research scope 1.6 Structure of the thesis CHAPTER II: LITERATURE REVIEWS 2.1 Review of key concepts 2.2Review of theory 2.3Review of Empirical studies 2.3.1 Effect of family backgrounds on student academic performance 2.3.2 Effect of demographic factors on student academic performance .11 2.3.3 Effect of geographic factors on student academic performance .13 2.3.4 Effect of self-motivation of student on their academic performance 14 2.4Conceptual framework 15 CHAPTER III: DATA ANALYSIS AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 16 3.1 Model specification 16 3.1.1 Model specification 16 vii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com 3.1.2 Measurement of variables .17 3.1.2.1 The dependent variable 17 3.1.2.2 The independent variables .18 3.1.3 Regression models 22 3.2 Data .24 3.2.1 Data source .24 3.2.2 Sampling strategy .24 CHAPTER IV: EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION 26 4.1 Overview of education system in Vietnam and Mekong river delta 26 4.2 Data description .27 4.3 Regression results .33 4.3.1 Results .33 4.3.2 Test 37 4.3.2.1 Testing for goodness of fit 38 4.3.2.2 Testing for Heteroscedasticity 38 4.3.2.3 Testing for multicollinearity .39 4.3.2.4 Testing for normality .40 4.4 Discussion 41 CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS 43 viii LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com 5.1 Conclusion 43 5.2 Policy implications 44 5.3 Research limitations and suggestion for further studies 45 References 47 Appendix 54 ix LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com APPENDIX Appendix 1: Matrix of correlation between variables 54 Appendix 2: Wald’s test of overall significant of the model 54 Appendix 3: Heteroscedasticity test 55 Appendix 4: Multicollinearity test 55 Appendix 5: Skewness/Kurtosis test of residuals and National exam score 55 Appendix 6: PCA result .56 Appendix 7: OLS estimation result 57 Appendix 8: Questionnaire .58 x LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ... is to guarantee that the complete contents of this thesis (Determinants of student’s academic performance: The case of Mekong River Delta) which are drafted by me and the thesis includes my knowledge... ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF MEKONG RIVER DELTA A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS IN DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS By TRAN CHI NGUYEN Academic. .. for the low education level region such as Mekong River Delta In fact, there are a few researches examine about the case of Mekong River Delta This thesis is the first research which examines the