Socio-economic Status As A Predictor Of Students Academic Performance

The study investigates the influence of parents' socio-economic status on academic performance of students. Two hundred school going adolescents comprised the sample for the study. A random sampling technique was used in selecting 200 subjects used for this Study from ten secondary schools in Ifako-Ijaiye Local Education District (L.E.D) of Lagos State. A researcher-conducted questionnaire was used for the study. There was no conscious manipulation of the variable since the interaction among them has been completed. T-test of independent sample was used to verify the difference between parenta…