Mother’s level of Education as a Determinant to Child’s Academic Achievement at Secondary Level

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to understand the relationship between mother’s education and her child’s academic achievement. Three variables mother education, learning climate and academic achievements are used in this research to understand this relation. To set a ground for it in the first part the study presents a comprehensive background about the previously done research work in this area in the literature part. After developing an understanding of our variables we moved to the analysis part where a scale to measure all three variables was adopted and a sample size of 145 was selected by Krejcie and Morgan (1970) table for determining sample size of our targeted population. The unit of analysis for this research are the student of secondary and higher secondary level who are currently studying at Jinnah Basic School and Colleges, Mansehra Khyber Pakhtukhwa. The results based on our adopted questioner (Awan, 2020), (Ahmed, 2019) and (Solberg et al, 1993) are presented in the analysis part which are performed by SPSS software. The result performed by SPSS show the relationship between the mother’s education and child’s academic achievement with mediating effect of learning climate at home. The results proved all the four hypothesis of this research to be true. Our research supports the previously done researches in the same area with different variables