Impact of Socio- Economic Status on the Educational Achievement of Secondary School Students in Vadodara

Abstract

With the onset of COVID-19 pandemic, most of the students and their families were affected by economic burden and became unemployed. Those who had business also suffered, unemployment in India effected the future of the students and their parents.  Paying fees in schools became a problem for parents.  Many students lost their father or mother.  Research has shown that the effect of socio-economic status on the academic achievement of students was observed due to corona.  Many parents are not educated.  If the size of the family is large, then out of 4 children, one or two children are not able to get admission in the school.  The present study will help us to know the importance of the situation of our country along with the academic achievement of students.  The objective of this present study is to know the socio-economic status of secondary school students of Vadodara district and the problems faced by them in their academic achievement. There are many factors affecting academic achievement. psychological, social, economic and environmental etc. The objectives of the study were to identify the level educational achievement of secondary school students of Vadodara City and to examine the influence of socio-economic status on the educational achievement of secondary school students The descriptive survey method was used for the present study. 50-students and parents of the two Hindi medium schools namely Shri Krishna Hindi Vidyalaya and Adarsh Hindi Vidyalaya were selected as the sample for the present study. It has been found in the present study that the academic achievement of low-level students, average level students, high level students were investigated the level of all the students, mean scores of high-level students were 212 and the marks of average level students were 142 and the lowest low level of students is 57. To see the impact of socio-economic status on educational achievement, t-test was conducted, it was found that statistically there exists no significant difference in socioeconomic status and educational academic achievement It becomes important to be conclude that even the status of social or economic level is low but efforts can be made to attain expected educational achievement and lead to a totally developed personality for which education is aimed for.