Influence of Socio Economic Status on Academic Achievements of Adarsha Vidyalaya Students of Odisha

The socioeconomic status of a child is usually determined by parental educational level, parental occupational status and income level. It affects the overall functioning of humans, including mental and physical health. On the other hand academic achievements play an important role in the academic career of the students. But it has been seen from earlier study that academic achievements of students is directly influence by socioeconomic status of the family in which the learning process takes places to a great extent. The main objectives of the topic are to find out the mean difference of academic achievements among class-VIII students of Adarsha Vidyalaya belong to high, average and poor socio economic status. A sample size of 500 Class-VIII Students from 10 Adarsha Vidyalayas of Bargarh, Bolangir and Sambalpur districts of Odisha were selected and taken up for the study. Purposive and Simple random sampling method has been used by the researcher for selecting the samples. Socio-Economic Status Scale developed by Dr.R.L.Bharadwaj and Self Prepared Academic Achievement Test for Class-VIII Students was used for the study. It has been found that, there is low positive relationship between socio economic status and academic achievements, no mean difference of academic achievements is found among students belongs to high, average and poor categories of socio economic status of class-VIII students of Adarsha Vidyalaya.