“…The internal factors, also known as psychological factors, which are identified as reasons in general for students' poor performance, include students' perceptions, attitudes, and motivations (Reis & McCoach, 2000). Besides these, low self-esteem (Whitmore, 1980), negative attitude toward school (McCall, Evahn, & Kratzer, 1992), negative peer influence (Clasen & Clasen, 1995;Weiner, 1992), and low self-motivation and self-regulation (Borkowski & Thorpe, 1994) also have been identified by the researchers associated with the poor performance of students. Lin, LaCounte, and Eder (1988) mention in their article that a study of American Indian higher education identified the reasons for academic poor performance as poor high school preparation, financial problems, poor study habits, and other ''individually'' based factors.…”