Demographic and Individual Determinants of Academic Achievement of the Students in 9th Grade

Abstract

The current research was carried out to explore the relationship of demographic variables with academic achievement in boys and girls using 1000 students (boys = 500, girls = 500) with age range 13 to16 years (M = 13.87, SD = 1.73) of 9th grade using stratified random sampling technique from different public high schools. A valid achievement test was prepared to measure academic achievement. Descriptive statistics, correlation, regression analysis, and independent samples t-test were carried out for data analyses. The findings suggest that academic achievement has a significant positive correlation with demographic variables of gender, father’s education, and profession, mother’s education and profession, monthly income, and study hours. Gender, parental education, and monthly income of family turned out to be the significant predictors of the academic achievement of 9^th grade students. Girls outperformed boy’s academic achievement on all subjects except mathematics in grade 9.