scholarly journals The Impact of Parental Socioeconomic Status on Students’ Academic Achievement in Secondary Schools in Tanzania

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orestes Silverius Kapinga
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Parental Socioeconomic Status

scholarly journals EXAMINING HOW POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EMOTIONS INFLUENCE COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

2020 ◽  
pp. 255-267
Author(s):  
Sonya Yakimova ◽  
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Célia Maintenant ◽  
Anne Taillandier-Schmitt ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
School Context ◽  
Dropping Out ◽  
French Version ◽  
The Impact

Few studies have examined the impact of emotions on cognitive (not only academic) performance among adolescents and this is the objective of our research. After ethic committee agreement andparents’ authorization, we asked 158 adolescents in secondary schools to respond to the French version of Differential Emotion Scale adapted for school context and to nineteensyllogisms which evaluated cognitive nonacademic performances. As results, we expected that negative emotions related to academic achievement would reduce performance in reasoning and positive emotions would improve it. Our hypotheses were partially validated. The impacts of the results as well as perspectives of future researches in relation with self-esteem, psychological disengagement, dropping out of school were discussed.

Impact of Parents’ Socio Economic Status on Academic Achievement of Secondary School Agricultural Students in Konshisha Local Government

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Reliability Method ◽  
Agricultural Students ◽  
The Impact

This study was on the impact of parents’ socio economic status on academic achievement of secondary schools agricultural students in Konsisha Local Government. Specific objectives for the study were: identify the impact of family structure on academic achievement of secondary school agricultural students in Konshisha Local Government, investigate the impact of parents’ educational background on academic achievement of secondary school agricultural students in Konshisha Local Government and ascertain the impact of parents’ income on academic achievement of secondary school agricultural students in Konshisha Local Government. Three research questions were raised and answered by the study. The design for the study was survey research design. Population for the study was 440 while purposive sampling technique was adopted for this study. A structured questionnaire titled: Parents’ Socio-economic Status Questionnaire (PSESQ) was used for data collection. The instrument was validated by three experts. Cronbach Alpha reliability method was used to determine the internal consistency of the instrument and a coefficient of 0.81 was obtained. All the administered copies of the questionnaire were retrieved and analyzed using Mean, Standard Deviation and t – test. It was found out that academic achievement of students in secondary schools could be impacted by 4 family structures, 6 parents’ educational background and 6 impact of parents’ income on academic achievement of students in secondary schools. It was therefore, recommended that, Students from good socio economic background should use the opportunity to attain good academic heights, parents should provide basic school needs for their children to enable them attain good academic heights and parents should seek varying sources of income so that they can meet up with the school needs of their children.

scholarly journals Effects of Parental Socioeconomic Status on the Academic Achievement of Secondary School Students in District Karak (Pakistan)

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qaiser Suleman ◽  
Ishtiaq Hussain ◽  
Zaib-un- Nisa
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Pilot Testing ◽  
Occupational Level ◽  
Parental Socioeconomic Status

The purpose of this research study was to investigate the effects of parental socioeconomic status on the academic achievement of secondary school students in District Karak (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) Pakistan. The objectives of the study were: (a) to find out the effect of parental socioeconomic status on the academic achievement of secondary school students (b) to determine the effect of parental educational level on the academic achievement of secondary school students (c) to find out the effect of parental occupational level on the academic achievement of secondary school students and (d) to suggest workable recommendations for the enhancement of the students’ academic achievement. All the students studying at secondary school level in District Karak constituted the population of the study. The study was delimited to only sixty government boys’ high schools in District Karak. The study was further delimited to the students of 10th Class. In order to represent adequate representation of population, only 1500 secondary school students were selected randomly at the rate of 25 students from each school. The study was survey type and therefore the researchers decided to develop self-developed questionnaire for the collection of data. Pilot testing was conducted to explore the weakness, misconceptions and ambiguities of the questionnaire. After the conduction of pilot testing, final version of the questionnaire was developed and prepared. The researchers personally visited to the respective sample and distributed questionnaires among the participants. In this way data was collected. After collection of data, the data was organized, tabulated and analyzed. Chi-square and percentage were used for the statistical analysis of the data. After statistical analysis of data, the researchers concluded that parental socio-economic status; parent’s educational level, parental occupational level; and parental income level affect the academic achievement of students at secondary level. Therefore it is strongly recommended that unemployment should be controlled. Poor students should be provided scholarships, free books and other stationary. In addition, it is also recommended that government should take steps to raise socioeconomic status of people. KEY WORDS: Parental Socioeconomic status, academic achievement, secondary school students

scholarly journals Investigation of the associations between physical activity, self-regulation and educational outcomes in childhood

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fotini Vasilopoulos ◽  
Michelle Renee Ellefson
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Time Points ◽  
Behavioural Regulation ◽  
The Impact

It is common knowledge that physical activity leads to physiological and psychological benefits. The current study explored the association between physical activity and self-regulation longitudinally and the indirect relationship this may have on academic achievement, using secondary data on primary and secondary school children from the Millennium Cohort Study. There are two main findings. First, there is a positive link between physical activity and emotional (not behavioural) regulation both concurrently and longitudinally across all three time points, 7-years-old, 11-years-old and 14-years-old. The relationship was negative for emotional regulation and negligible for behavioural regulation when controlling for socioeconomic status. Second, across two time points (due to data availability), physical activity positively predicted academic achievement through emotional regulation for 7-year-olds and behavioural regulation in 11-year-olds. The impact of this relationship was more pronounced when controlling for socioeconomic status. Together these findings indicate that emotional regulation is linked to physical activity in early childhood. Subsequently, emotion regulation predicts academic attainment, suggesting that early interventions might focus on attention rather than behaviour.

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