Academic Achievement of Ugandan Sixth Grade Students: Influence of Parents' Education Levels

Autor/inn/en	Wamala, Robert; Kizito, Omala Saint; Jjemba, Evans
Titel	Academic Achievement of Ugandan Sixth Grade Students: Influence of Parents' Education Levels
Quelle	In: Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 6 (2013) 1, S.133-142 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1940-5847
Schlagwörter	Elementary School Students; Grade 6; Regression (Statistics); Geographic Regions; Educational Attainment; Mothers; Fathers; Scores; Age Differences; Gender Differences; Parent Background; Academic Achievement; Correlation; Prediction; Achievement Tests; Reading Achievement; Numeracy; Foreign Countries; Parent Child Relationship; Uganda + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Mother; Mutter; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Elternhaus; Schulleistung; Korrelation; Vorhersage; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Leistung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Leseleistung; Rechenkompetenz; Ausland; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung
Abstract	The study investigates the influence of a father and mother's education on the academic achievement of their child. The investigation is based on data sourced from the 2009 Southern African Consortium for Monitoring Education Quality survey comprising 5,148 records of sixth grade students enrolled in Ugandan primary schools. Students' percentage scores in the health sciences, reading, and numeracy tests were adopted as a measure of academic achievement. The analysis was carried out using summary statistics and a multiple linear regression clustered by six geographical regions in Uganda: central, eastern, western, northern, southwestern, and northeastern. In addition to father and mothers' education, students' test scores in the various disciplines were analyzed by the characteristics of age, sex, rural-urban residence, grade repetition status (any grade), and length of pre-primary education. The results showed that the level of a father's education required to predict whether the child will achieve better scores in all disciplines was primary education. However, a mother required secondary and post-secondary education to enable the child to obtain better scores in reading and numeracy, respectively. Much of the previous literature has suggested that children born to educated parents have higher academic achievement; the results of this study support this finding but also reveal a difference in the levels of a father and mother's education required to predict their child's achievement of better scores in formal education. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01