The study of relation between students support services and distance students’ academic achievement

This study investigated the relationship between students support services and its component with academic achievement in distance education. The population of this study consisted of Tehran province Payame Noor University’ students in 2008-9 academic years. The 1098 participants selected from print based population through cluster sampling and 172 participants selected from web based population through random sampling according the share of tow population. Formula for accounting the number of samples was Cochran's formula. Data accumulated by 52 scale questionnaire (α = 0.93) from print based participants through fill up paper questionnaire and from web based participants through fill up electronically questionnaire. The method of research was correlation. Analyzing of gathered data via Pearson correlation showed that: relations between students support services and its components with academic achievement were statistically significant.