Parental Encouragement in Relation to Academic Achievement of Higher Secondary School Students

Autor/inn/en	Lawrence, A. S. Arul; Barathi, C.
Titel	Parental Encouragement in Relation to Academic Achievement of Higher Secondary School Students
Quelle	2 (2016) 6, S.1234-1239 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2395-4396
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; Secondary School Students; Parent Student Relationship; Positive Reinforcement; Student Surveys; Correlation; Foreign Countries; Gender Differences; Rural Urban Differences; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Sekundarschüler; Schülerbefragung; Korrelation; Ausland; Geschlechterkonflikt; Stadt-Land-Beziehung; Indien
Abstract	Parental Encouragement refers to the general process undertaken by the parents to initiative and directs the behaviour of the children towards high academic achievement. The present study aims to probe the relationship between Parental Encouragement and Academic Achievement of Higher Secondary School Students. Survey method was employed and the investigators used stratified random sampling technique. The sample consists of 350 higher secondary school students from ten schools at Thanjavur district. Parental Encouragement Scale developed by Kusum Agarwal (1999) and academic achievement constructed by investigator (2012) were used as the tool. Karl Pearson's product moment co-efficient of correlation was used as the statistical technique for analyzing the data. The result shows that there is significant relationship between parental encouragement and academic achievement of higher secondary school students. (As Provided).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01