Analysis of the factors affecting the students’ failure at higher education.

In

recent years, the global developments in the

education systems and the acceleration of the communication era have

considerably triggered the improvement of the education and training programs

and tolls. It has been begun to use versatile education tolls and measurements

instead of one-way those. However, the

effects of the general failures in primary and secondary educations have been

considerably percieved in higher education. In order to explore the reasons of

these negative factors, they could be grouped three categoies such as the

student-oriented factors (i.e. the students’ socioeconomic, indivitual,

pysicological variables), the variable based on the convenience of the

classrooms and education tools (physical

environment) and the variables focused on

the academicians and the measurement techniques used by them. The primary data

used to analyze the negative effects including these factors were obtained from

the 150 students training at the collage of Agriculture of Ataturk University in

2010-2011. The principle component analysis (PCA)

was used to obtain the main factors affecting the students’ failure. According

to the results of the study, the factors affecting on the students’ failure in

higher education were listed in order to be the challenges of the conceptual

and communicative motivation, the lack of ability to study the rational course,

the wrong choise of the working area and the concern for the future, the lack

of the physical facilities at the faculty, the negative sensory impulses, the

incorrect measurement techniques deviating from the objectives of the course

outputs, the lack of the aplication realeted to the main course, and the lack

of the cognitive and behavioral communication. According to the results of the

study, the education planning and polycies based on the factors minimizing the

effects of the variables preventing the students’ success, and motivating their

success could be improved and applicated.