A Study of Influence of Creativity of students and Socio-Economic status of their Parents on Academic Achievement at Higher Seconday Level

Abstract

Given the conditions prevailing in the contemporary period, performance in education matters most. Life in general and for or a student in particular has become highly competitive. Today there is no place for a mediocre student, there is a limited room at the top, that room too only for the best. Today's society is more complex with huge knowledge base and much more complex and huge situations. A child in turn can not simply learn all these things through observation of his/her parents. To import the knowledge a school has become more essential and crucial. Thus, in a way the performance of an individual in an educational institution is relatively depended on the personal trends, quality of educational institution and the society as a whole. Thus, the present research work titled "A study of influence of creativity of students and socio-economic status of their parents on academic achievement at higher secondary level of Western Odisha" was undertaken. Present research study to as implications derived from the study, in this chapter an attempt was to capture holistic view. Educationists and psychologists have focused on discrete elements of reading and writing skills. Such a skill- based approach conceptualizes literacy as an autonomous variable whose impact on society and cognition flows from its intrinsic character. This model tends not only to make claims to universals but also privileges the text and the teacher, totally ignoring the knowledge the learner brings to the learning situation. It doesn't concern itself with the questions of power distribution and authority relations in society nor does it deal with the politics of literacy