Effect of Home Conditions on Students Achievement at Secondary Level in Bagh Azad Kashmir

Abstract

The study was carried out in district Bagh with the purpose of finding out the effect of home conditions on students learning habits at Secondary Level in District Bagh Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The objectives includes to determine the elements of home conditions that effect on child education and their effect on students learning habits at secondary level. All the 500 secondary school teachers teaching at secondary level in government sector schools were the population of the study while 100 teachers were selected as sample using Non-Probability Sampling technique (Convenient Sampling). The researcher used a self-developed instruments to gather data and information relevant to this research. The questionnaire was consisted of 14 items which later on distributed by the researcher among the sampled teachers The researcher analyzed and interpreted data organizing it in tabular form. The data was fed in spss and used the Chi-square statistical technique to check the effect of home conditions on students learning habits. Findings of the study showed that there is a significant relationship between home condition and students learning habits at secondary level the students with strong socio-economic background were found good in their academics while students with weaker socio economic background were found poor in academics. The study concluded that home conditions may be improved to improve performance of the students. It is recommended that teachers should play their role for students to overcome their deficiencies who are lacking better home conditions