Abstract

The study aims to identify the evaluation level of academic underperformance causes from the perspective of hindrance students at Al-Ahliyya Amman University (AAU), and the relation between these causes and other variables: sex, type of faculty and students’ academic year. To achieve this purpose, the analytical descriptive methodology was used, and a questionnaire which consisted of three domains of causes of academic underperformance was prepared. These domains were: the educational (academic) domain, students personality and social relationships, and family and economic status. For this reason a sample of (133) male and female students was chosen by the intentional method. The study showed that the level of causes behind academic underperformance of Al-Ahliyya Amman University (AAU) students according to total tool was moderate; likewise, students individual assessments of these causes for each domain of the tool were moderate. The domain concerning educational (academic) difficulties came in the first rank, difficulties concerning students personality and social relationships came second, and difficulties related to family and economic status came in the third rank. There were significant statistical differences of the sex variable, the significance was in favor of females; there were significant statistical differences of the faculty variable (sciences/arts), the significance was in favor of the students in scientific faculties’ and there were significant statistical differences of the academic year variable, the significance was in favor of first and second year students.