Abstract:
The purpose of the study is to examine the effect of extracurricular activities (ECA) on the education
of students of Daffodil International University (DIU) Bangladesh. To define the effect more
clearly we have disaggregated the extracurricular activities into several parts such as career
activities, cultural activities, and social work activities. A total of 280 students from different
faculties have been selected to collect data using a stratified random sampling method. The findings of
this study indicate that there is a negative but insignificant association between involvement in
overall extracurricular activities and academic achievement. But when we separately estimates
the models for different particular extracurricular activities we find that only the involvement in
social activities has a significant negative impact on academic performance as measured by
cumulative grade point average (CGPA) while other extracurricular.
