Vol. 4, Issue 9, Part D (2018)

Abstract
Academic achievement is a performance outcome that depicts the degree to which a student or teacher has accomplished certain specific goals that were the focus of activities in instructional environments, most notably in educational institutions such as schools, colleges, and universities. Academic achievement measures the extent to which a student or teacher has accomplished certain specific goals. School systems primarily define cognitive goals that either apply across multiple subject areas (for example, critical thinking) or include the understanding in a specific intellectual domain (for example, literacy, science, history, or numeracy) and acquisition of knowledge. These cognitive goals can either apply across multiple subject areas (for example, critical thinking), or they can include both. Therefore, academic success need to be seen as a multidimensional variable that encompasses several fields of education.