Achievement of Senior Secondary School Students in Mathematics: The Contribution of Intelligence and Socio Economic Status

Abstract

An increasing pool of research findings in the field of mathematics education indicate the impact of various factors like demographic, individual, instructional, classroom management and evaluation factors on mathematics achievement of the students. The present study aims to study the significant predictors in mathematics achievements among adolescents. Descriptive survey method was used as a research design for the study. The target population of the study was the students studying in senior secondary schools of Moradabad city in Uttar Pradesh (India). A sample of 123 students was randomly selected out of 5 senior secondary C.B.S.E. schools out of which 66 were males and 57 females. The study revealed that Intelligence emerged as the most significant predictor in mathematics achievement among adolescents. This is in consistent to previous researches conducted by Das (1986), Patel (1997), Kasat (1991), Abdulmajeed (1992) and Fernandez (2011), who reported positive relationship between the intelligence and mathematics achievement