SOCIO ? ECONOMIC STATUS OF PARENTS AND SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS IN RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA

This research study focused on the relationship between socio-economic status (SES) of parents and students’ achievement in mathematics at the senior secondary school level in Rivers State, Nigeria. The ex-post facto research design was adopted for this study, since already conducted mathematics test scores of the students were retrieved and used for the analysis. Furthermore data were elicited through the socio-economic status (SES) and students’ achievement in mathematics questionnaire (SESASMQ). This questionnaire has twelve (12) question items related to socio-economic status (SES) and students’ achievement in mathematics. A population of 10,120 students was involved in the study out of which 4510 were chosen for the sample using the Yarrow Yamen’s formula. The data were analyzed using the Z ? test static, means and simple percentage. The findings were that to a low extent socio-economic status (SES) of parents related to students’ achievement in mathematics. However, the hypothesis testing showed that there is a significant relationship between socio-economic status (SES) of parents and students achievement in mathematics. Based on these findings, recommendations were made.