ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT WITH HOME ENVIRONMENT

The present paper examines the association of student achievement in mathematics with home environment. Three variables connected with home viz. Socio-Economic status of Parents, Education of Parents and Maternal Employment were taken up to study the effect on student achievement. The sample of study consisted of 500 (250 boys and 250 girls) of tenth class students drawn from government and private schools of Jalandhar district. The results of the study revealed that there was significant difference in the attainment of concepts in mathematics between high Socio-economic status group and low Socio-economic status group, also a positive relationship between maternal employment and attainment of students was found on the other hand attainment in mathematics was found to be independent of level of education of parents.