The Effect of Extra-curricular Activities on Education of Students of Daffodil International University

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.