PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT AND SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT OF HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RELATION TO GENDER AND RURAL/URBAN DICHOTOMY

The present paper was taken up with broad objective to study the parental Involvement and scholastic achievement of higher secondary school students in relation to their gender and urban/rural dichotomy. The sample comprised of 800 higher secondary school students (400 Rural and 400 urban students, out of which 200 were male and 200 were female). The sample for the study was selected randomly from the different schools of Srinagar (as urban district) and Ganderbal (as rural district). The sample was selected in such a way to ensure that every unit of the population could get equal chance to be selected in the sample. Parental Involvement Scale developed by vijay Laxmi and Gunjan Ganotra Arora,(2009) was administered for the present sample and scholastic Achievement was obtained from the previous two years performance records of the sample subjects. Findings of the study revealed that there is suggest significant difference between rural and urban higher secondary school student`s on Parental Involvement. The result also revealed that there is significant mean difference between rural and urban students on their Academic Achievement and urban student`s have higher academic achievement as compared to rural higher secondary school students.