Discussion
Looking at the above Table 6, it is observed that, gender of students’
contributes significantly to the model. Where as medium of instruction along with type
and location of schools are found to be insignificant in explaining the satisfactory
results in matriculation.
Now in particular, the performances of female students are 3.157 times higher
than that of the performance of male students. On the other hand for medium of
instruction, it can be seen that, the performance of English medium schools are 0.883
times better than that of the Bengali medium schools.
Also from the above table, type of schools (i.e., girls’ and boys’ schools) as a
whole is insignificant factor with p value 0.429 corresponding to examination scores.
Hence, it is observed that, performance of girls’ and boys’ schools are 0.475 and 0.946
times better than the co-educational schools respectively. Similarly, the performances
of urban students are 0.731 times better than the rural students.
Looking at the length of confidence interval of estimated odds, we find that
location of school is estimated with 95% confidence having shortest interval length.
Comparison of odds ratios of total marks obtained in higher secondary and
matriculation examination for the respective set of independent variables: