The Correlation Between Students' Success and Students' Age

AuthorBesarta Zhaku-Kondri
PositionPrimary school Nuri Mazari-Dollogozha, Struga, Macedonia
Pages239-245
ISSN 2410-759X Balkan Journal of Interdisciplinary Research Vol 1 No 1
Acces online at www.iipccl.org IIPCCL Publishing, Tirana-Albania May 2015
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e Correlation Between Students’ Success and Students’ Age
Besarta Zhaku-Kondri, PhD Candidate
Primary school Nuri Mazari-Dollogozha, Struga, Macedonia
Abstract
Education is a huge process, which is created as a whole based on the harmony of the parts. It
consists of dierent parts. Assessment is an important part of the process of teaching and learning.
Grades are used as an evidence to show students work done every day at school to achieve success.
But not all the students achieve the same success. It depends on dierent factors. is study will
deal just with one of the factors that could aect the students’ success. Students age is the factor
that will be discussed in this study. e aim of this study is to test if their exit a correlation between
students’ success and their age. Moreover, to see what kind of correlation exists between the two
variables, students’ success and their age. To achieve this aim a study will take place in the primary
school, Nuri Mazari, Dollogozhda, Struga. In the study will participate 115 students. All the
participants are Albanian students who study English as a foreign language. English is one of their
school subjects. Students’ nal grades in English language will be taken into consideration as data
for this study. Students’ success will be compared with their age. ey are not the same grade; they
are sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth grade students.
Keywords: Students’ Success, Students’ Age, English Language, Primary School.
Introduction
Students’ success is an important part of teaching and learning process. e main
objective of school authorities is to organize everything as good as possible to ensure
students’ success. ere are a lot of factors that could aect the students’ success. Internal
and external factors indicate students’ success. Students age could be one of those factors.
e existence of a possible correlation between students’ success and their age is the main
aim of this study.
Literature Review
Assessment is an impotant part of teaching and learning process. Grades that teachers
give to their students are evidence about their work that students do everyday during the
lessons. Moreove, they show their success at school. e control of students’ knowledge
has always been a part of the educational process in schools from antiquity to nowadays
schools (Kraja, 2006, p. 316). Students’ success is an important factor in student life.
Besides the eect that it has in school work, it also aects the student life aer school.
Moreover, success helps students have strong self-esteem, as he says “success can lead to
greater condence in academic and social situations, instead of embarrassment’ (Jensen,
2003, p. 3). According to Weeden, Winter, & Broadfoot (2002) “Pupils identied three
reasons for success in school – eort, ability and opportunity to learn” p. 51. However,
(Seidman, 2012) says that “ If a student’s background, both academic and social, and
a colledge’s characteristics, are similar, there is a likelihood of student success” p. 268.
Furthermore, Simpson (2012) says that “there are may thing that can increase student

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