Academic Performance and Perspectives on Professional Values

This research was carried out quantitatively under the post-positivist research design. The data were collected by using structured questionnaire and were statistically analyzed and interpreted with the help of SPSS software.The scholarship students were found to have performed better in learning than the fee-paying students. Their educational performances were measured in terms frequency of library visit, frequency of reading course related article, the duration of time paid by the students for self-study (independent variable) and the marks obtained by them (dependent variable) in the first and the second year of nursing courses. The scholarship students exceeded the fee-paying students in all these part of educational performance. Similarly, the scholarship students belonging to the lower age group were found to have performed better in learning than those who belonged to older age group. The students from Janajati were found to have performed better than those from Brahmin/Chhetri and Dalits. In the same way, the scholarship nursing students whose fathers were literate and SLC (now SEE) graduate and mothers were homemakers and literate performed better in nursing education