العوامل الاجتماعية المؤثرة في التحصيل الدراسي لدي تلاميذ مرحلة الاساس (دراسة حالة مدارس محلية السلام بولاية غرب كردفان)

Abstract

Abstract This study has tackled the social factors deemed eifective on the educational achievement of the pupils of the primary schools. This has been performed on the basis of selected random sampling taken from Essalam Locality schools of the westem Kordofan State as the subject matter. The purposes of the study are: To reveal the extent to which family relations affect the level of educational achievement of the pupils, to discover the extent to which the discrepencies in the ways parents treat their children generate passive or positive effect on their educational achievement, to asses how far the economic status of fl'lC family positively or passively affect the level of the educational achievement, to explore the extent to which the effect of the social factors related to the school environment impose an impact on the levels of the educational achievement The study adopted a major hypothesis which is: the more positive family and school environment, the more likely that will have a positive impact on the children's educational achievement, and vise-versa. Added to this major assumption are some other branching ones. To test this hypothesis, the study has made use of the quantitative, descriptive and historical analytical approach. Several samples of male and female pupils of "eight‘h" grade were selected randomly,total number of pupils selected were (296). In addition, a sample of school teachers and another of the households have been selected using stratified multistage random sampling. Other research tools being adopted are: focus group discussion(FGD) and interview beside the questionnaire. The way parents treat their school children has a great impact on the continuation of their education. educational and cultural level of the parents has a positive impact on the children's educational achievement .As well, when occupation of parents is associated with distinguished social status has direct positive effect on the educational achievement of their children; whereas children of working mothers showed better educational attainment than their counterparts whose mothers are either housekeepers or un employed. household stability have a positive etfect on educational achievement whereas no trace of any effect has been found between the size of the family and educational achievement. improved quality of the teacher and good school environment help better educational achievement of the relevant pupils. However, no effect of the school curriculum on the educational achievement of the pupils of the relevant school has been cited. household environmental factors have been cited as the most efiective criteria on the educational achievement of the pupils, and on top of all those factors comes the economic status of the family. Lastly, the study has come up with important to better educational achievement at primary school level. .