A Study of Academic Achievement of School Students having illiterate and literate parents

Malkeet Kaur

doi:10.24297/jssr.v1i1.3051

Abstract

The study aims to study the academic achievement of school students having illiterate and literate parents. The sample of the study comprised of 100 school students from Hoshiarpur district of Punjab. The findings indicated that students having literate parents scored higher than the students having illiterate parents.

Highlights

In the changing scenario, highly successful persons in academics are considered to be responsible to bring and maintain advancement of the society. Salami (2010) opined that academic success is the major goal of the college students for it has always been used as the main basis to judge the potentialities and capabilities and as a means for selection for educational advancement and employment. Krishnan (1977) conducted a study on non-intellectual factors and their influence on academic achievement
The findings revealed that educational standard of parents had significant effect on the academic achievement of arts and science students at the college level
The findings revealed that parental education was positively and significantly associated with academic achievement of their children

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Highly successful persons in academics are considered to be responsible to bring and maintain advancement of the society. Salami (2010) opined that academic success is the major goal of the college students for it has always been used as the main basis to judge the potentialities and capabilities and as a means for selection for educational advancement and employment. Krishnan (1977) conducted a study on non-intellectual factors and their influence on academic achievement. The results indicated that parents’ educational status had significant influence on the academic achievement of their children. The findings revealed that educational standard of parents had significant effect on the academic achievement of arts and science students at the college level. Bhatnagar and Sharma (1992) carried out a research to investigate the relationship between education of parents and academic achievement of students on a sample of 85 school students of semi-rural settings in Rajasthan. The results indicated that academic achievement of the girls was influenced by parental education levels. The results indicated that family variables including parental education had significant relationship with the achievement of their children By reviewing these researches the investigation reaches to the point that academic achievement, serve as means to satisfy one’s needs and derives with the desired success. The investigator aims to study academic achievement of school students having literate and illiterate parents

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