The Socio-Economic status of students and its effects on their academic performance

The socio-economic condition of the family plays a significant role in the educational development of student. According to Arig (2002) the very influential factor in the attitude of the students towards education is the presence of socio-economic condition which may not only affect his social relationship, but the preference of educational institution to have. This study aimed to determine the socio-economic status of the students of the College of Teacher Education and its effect to their academic performances. This study is guided by the lone hypothesis that there is no significant difference in the academic performance of respondents when grouped according to their socio-economic profile. The descriptive correlational method was used in this research study employing correlational treatment of the data to establish the relationship that exists between the socio economic and their academic performances. The respondents of the study are students of the College of Education of the Cagayan State University-as the main data source. The student-respondents were randomly chosen. A questionnaire which was patterned from the study of Andam et. Al was the devise utilized to gather the data and was designed to elicit necessary information regarding the social and economic status of the student-respondents. The questionnaire consist of two parts the first part consists of the social-status profile of the students while the second part delved on the economic-status information concerning. In addition to the questionnaire, documents concerning the student academic performance was also utilized which is gathered from the Registrar's Office. it is therefore concluded that there exist a significant difference on the academic performance of respondents when grouped according to their socio-economic status. On the basis of the significant findings and conclusions of the study, the researcher offered a recommendation that teachers should have a background investigation of the students ’socio-economic status so as adopt the appropriate strategy in devising a teaching plan that could adaptive to the students ’abilities.