Parental Education and Academic Performance of Students at Secondary Level
Parental Education and Academic Performance of Students at Secondary Level
Parental Education and Academic Performance of Students at Secondary Level
Abstract
Parents’ education level determines the education of the children for a long. The school performances of the children are greatly
affected by the home. The objectives of presents study are 1) To assess the level of parental education of students at secondary
level. 2) To study the academic performance of students at secondary level. 3) To find out the relationship between parental
education and academic performance of students at secondary level. Ex-post facto was used. Data were collected on 100 students
of class IX, Kendriya Vidyalya Lumding, Assam. In the present study two tools were used for collection of data i.e. Inquiry form -
For collection of data on parental education and School Performance Record (SA-I, record on the basis of CCE pattern conducted
by the school) to know the performance of the students in the Science and technology, English and Mathematics.
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questions like: 1) what is the parental educational of secondary Result and discussion
school students? 2) What is the performance of students in Data were analyzed to use the various statistical methodslike
Language, Mathematics and Science? 3) Is there any difference frequencies, percentages, mean and chi-square test and
in the academic performance of secondary school students objective wise results are shown in tabulated form.
coming from different parental education level? The present The first objective of the study was to find out the level of
research is proposed to find the answer of above questions. parental education of students. The result has been shown in
Objectives of the Study the following table.
1. To assess the level of parental education of students at
secondary level. Table 1: Parental Education of Secondary School Students
2. To study the academic performance of students at Sl. Level of Parental Percentage
secondary level. Frequency
No. Education (%)
3. To find out the relationship between parental education 1 Low 21 21
and academic performance of students at secondary level. 2 Average 64 64
3 High 15 15
Hypothesis of the Study Total 100
There is no significant relationship exist between parental
education and academic performance of students at secondary
level.
good, may be also due to fact that parents and students want to
opt for science stream in future for which they are working
hard. In Mathematics majority of students are average
performers. General awareness is seen among the students to
perform well. Mathematics being a subject of logical approach
and with practice interest’s students. Since this is the formative
years of study for higher secondary classes, teachers to take
proper care for the studies. Parents and Students in general
want to opt for engineering and other Mathematics demanding
streams so try to perform well through their combined efforts.
Majority of students are average performers in English. In
comparison to Science and Mathematics, we find maximum
number of low performers in English. This may be due to the
Fig 4.3: Graphical representation of comparison in overall academic fact that local language, regional language has an influence on
performance of 100 students in Science, Mathematics and English the child. English is the first language in school but in actual
practice it comes after ones mother tongue which is the first
The above table and graph revealed that majority of students spoken language of the child. Another reason of low
are average performers in Science 67%. The new CCE pattern performance in English may be due to the fact that there is gap
of education has given enough scope for step-wise learning, between spoken English and writing English which lowers the
understanding, through demonstration, practical etc. The performance.
subject was made interesting through various activities which The third objective of the study was to find out the relationship
helped in the performance of students. Proper infrastructures of between parental education and academic performance of
laboratory are available which help the teachers and students in students at secondary level. The result has been shown in the
the teaching learning process. The performance of students was following table.
The chi-square value is 13.56 with df. 4 which is not parents are educated and sincere towards education of their
significant at 0.01 level (table value=13.27). There is ward. If parents aware about importance of education then they
significant relationship exist between parental Education and worried about their child performance and try to focus on their
academic performance of students at secondary level. Parental study It is therefore concluded that Parental Education has a
Education influences the academic performance of students. role on Academic Performance of the child. Findings have also
Those parents, who take interest in their wards studies, go been supported by the studies of, Vamadevappa (2005),
through their books, give them time and are aware of the trends Hill(2001) Barbara, R.D(2001) [4], Devi. S.et al (2003) [5],
of education, see better performance by their children. Home Karla, R.et al (2004), Saini (2005) [12, 16] and NCERT (2007).
environment too has a role in academic performance of the
child. A home where the child is loved, wanted and cared, Findings
gives him/her fair opportunity of growth (physical, emotional, Majority of parents are having average level of educational
social) which is reflected in the academic performance. background. The average levels of educational background
Parenting is a dynamic task. When parents show their loving, are those parents whose educational qualifications are
caring nature towards their wards it is reflected in the Graduate and Higher Secondary passed.
performance of the child. All this will be possible when the
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Majority of students’ academic performance is average. Wollong. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the
The average performing students have scored between 41 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting,
to 79% marks in their SA-I, test performance. Sheraton and the Boston Marriot Copley Place, Boston,
It was found that there is significant relationship exist 2008.
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academic performance of the students. And at the same time, 9. NCERT. National Curriculum Framework. New Delhi,
various negative factors, unfavorable climate in the home is 2005.
responsible for low academic achievement of the students. The 10. NCERT, National Report; Learning Achievement of class
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average level educational background parents resulted in high 11. Nuthana. A study of Gender Analysis Academic
and average academic achievement of students and low level Achievement among School Students. M.S University, the
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educational administrators and educational planners to know 12. Saini S. Family environment and academic achievement of
that parental education contribute towards performance t of the adolescent children of working and nonworking mother,
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students. At the same time teachers, students and parents will differences between maleand female adolescents academic
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environment and can take up certain remedial measures to performance of the studentsofone parent working group
make their education more conducive and favorable which will was better than both parents working group.National
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