Age of Entry as Determinant of Achivement in The Elementary Grades: A Comparative Study
Keywords:
Determinants, Achievement, Elementary Grades, Comparative StudyAbstract
The study attempted to look into the extent to which age of entry determines the achievement of elementary grade pupils in District I and II of Daram. The descriptive-comparative design was used in the conduct of the study. Data under household size reveal that most of the pupils belong to the 6-to-8 member households comprising 45.8% of the pupils. This group is followed by 26.8% of the pupils who live in families of 9-to-11 members, another 21.15 belonging to the 3 to 5 members, while the rest (6.4%) have 12 or more members. The mean size is 7.3. Nearly 54% of the pupils did not undergo day-care training. Most of them, around 86%, neither have attended kindergarten classes. For the conclusion, as far as their achievement in the learning areas is concerned, the pupils in each age group exhibited uniform performance across grade levels and across learning areas as evidenced by minimum dispersions of the grades from the mean. For the recommendation, a study on the correlates of drop-out rates among grade school pupils should be conducted to ascertain the factors that affect the incidence.
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