A Path Model For Analyzıng Undergraduate Students’ Achıevement

The academic success of the students is seen as an important outcome of the academic associations. The factors that are related with the students success is being searched for the last three decades. There are numerous factors can be said that affect students’ achievement. In this study we investigate the variables that affect the academic success among the freshmen and sophomores of School of Transportation & Logistics in Istanbul University. We developed a model to research the variables that affects students’ achievement by using the path analyses. In proposed students’ achievement model, we accept the achievement criteria as grades in social and quantitative courses and analyzed if their high school’s achievement is affecting their undergraduate achievement. Also we search for their high school achievements and their demographic factors such as age, sex and besides economic status on their undergraduate achievement.

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