The Effect of Socio-economic Status (Parents Involvement, Education Aspiration and Parent’s Education) on Academic Performance among Secondary School Students in Zanzibar
Keywords:
Socioeconomic status, parents’ involvement, students’ education aspiration and parents’ education, students’ academic performance.Abstract
This paper contributes to the understanding of the research based on the effects of socio-economic status (parents’ involvement, education aspiration and parents’ education) on student academic performance among secondary school students in Zanzibar. The study was guided by three objectives; to identify the effect of parent’s involvement on student’s academic performance among secondary school students in Zanzibar, to identify the effect of education aspirations on student’s academic performance among secondary school students in Zanzibar and to identify the effect of parent’s education on student’s academic performance among secondary school students in Zanzibar. It employed purposive and convenient sampling procedures, and by using G*power software the sample of 95 students was used in the present study, therefore regarded as adequate. The instrument to be used was adopted questionnaire which was valid after the instrument validation procedures. Three hypotheses were formulated and the data were analyzed by using measurement model and structural model. However, the present study employed Expectancy theory to show the relationship between dependent and independent variables. The results shows there is significant relationship between social factors; parent’s involvement and education aspiration on academic performance, and there is no significant relationship between economic factor which is parents’ education (as their p-value are 0.256, 0.260 and 0.203respectively). From the study results, it is recommended that there is significant relationship between parent’s involvement and education aspiration on academic performance among secondary school students.
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