Abstract:
The research study investigated and identified the parental socio
-
economic factors affecting
academic performance of stude
nts, a case study of Faculty of Education and Extension Services.
A self
-
developed questionnaire was used as the instrument for data collection, it was found that,
parent socio
-
economic status is one of the major determinants of students’ performance, this
is
because considering the dependency of students on parents for their educational responsibilities
as indicated that more than 60% of the respondents agreed that children educations
responsibility is relies on their parents. This means that the higher th
e socio
-
economic status of
the parents is the higher of achievement and success of the children to be academically, unlike
parents whom are in medium and low socio
-
economic status; students who belong to them are
likely to be affected on their academic per
formance and achievements.
