Abstract

The study attempted to assess the relationships between gender level of goal orientation academic self efficacy and academic performance in Woldia college of teachers education The study employed quantitative approach which followed correlation design in volving two instruments tocollect data questionnaires goal orientation scale and general academic self efficacy scale and document analysis students cumulative GPA Participants of this study were 482 second and third year students at Woldia College of Teachers Education in the academic year of 2016 2017 using stratified and simple random sampling techniques To answer the research questions on the study mean scores standard deviation pearson correlation and also inferencial statistics such as t-test and multiple regression were used to analyze the data The result of the study showed that there was statistically significant gender difference in students general self efficacy and academic achievement In case of this the mean score of male students academic self efficacy and CGPA were significantly higher than female counter parts Gender has an independent significant effect on students academic achievement Moreover the study implied that students with high goal orientation and general academic self efficacy are likely to get better academic achievement in the college Regarding to the relationship between gender and goal orientation results of correlation analysis indicated no significant relationship between students gender and goal orientation and no statistically significant relationship between students gender and general academic self efficacy was obtained in correlation analysis though gender alone has a significant contribution to students academic achievement The results of correlation analysis of the present study revealed that there were statistically significant relationship between goal orientation and general academic self efficacy Further more there was statistically significan