Socioeconomic Status, Family Structure, and Parental Involvement: The Correlates of AchievementEagle, Eva

Do class/socioeconomic status, the attention of a parent, the working patterns of the mother, and familial structure have any impact on a student's academic performance? This particular study seeks to, specifically, describe "the relationship between educational attainment and the components of the SES index as used in the National Longitudinal Surveys conducted by the National Center for Educational Statistics." The 1980 High School and Beyond senior cohort was utilized in the undertaking of this study, with more than fifty eight thousand high school seniors and sophomores (1980) being used as the nationally representative sample. The survey of the samples took place in years 1980, 1982, 1984, as well as 1986.

The research made use of correlational research design. As Privitera (2013, p. 215) points out, correlational research design seeks to "use data to determine if two or more factors are related/correlated." To be more specific, the study takes the relational design (one of the two forms of correlational design) as it seeks to explore how student achievement is impacted upon by class/socioeconomic status, the attention of a parent, the working...

When it comes to data collection and statistical analysis, the study made use of survey and ANOVA respectively. This study found family affluence and parental education to be of significance when it came to the academic achievement of students. These factors, in the words of the author, "were key to students' postsecondary attainment, even when aspects of the home environment were taken into account."
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The relevance of the present study cannot be overstated as it provides numerous other opportunities for further research. To begin with, further research could be conducted to determine how the financial literacy of students impacts their academic performance. Financial literacy in this case could be with regard to how students address needs of a financial nature. This could have ripple effects on a student's financial wellbeing and status. Key factors that could be taken into consideration include, but they are not limited to, the spending habits of students. Another area of study that ought to be explored has got to do with parental involvement and how it impacts achievement in specific subjects such as foreign language and mathematics.

I am of the opinion that to further enhance the…