Parent’s Profession and Mathematics Achievement of Basic Education Level Students

Abstract

The aim of this research was to explore the parent’s profession and mathematics achievement of basic education level student. It had also aim to figure out how the parent’s profession and their involvement influence in student in the learning mathematics. This research was conducted in Rautahat district. This study was based on survey design. To obtain the objective of this study, eight school were selected randomly for data collection. Questionnaire were developed for parents and student to collect the data. Eighty students and eighty parents were divided into four groups according to their parent’s profession with the help of student and their class teacher. Twenty students were selected in each group by random sampling method to make sample size equal. The profession of parents were divided into jobholder, businessman, farmer and other-parents. Achievement score of the student were collected from the school record and analyzed by using ANOVA and t-test method to find whether the achievements of each group of students were different or not. Questionnaire were asked with student and their parents and then data was analyzed by using thematic analysis to find how the parent’s profession and their involvement influence in student. The result shows that there was significance difference in mathematics learning of student according to the parent’s profession. Also, parents who appreciate their children needs have significant impact on children performance while family income has highly significant impact on student learning. This study shows that parent’s profession status plays an important role in child development. Parents with good profession status provide better facilities to their children, and gets better academic in performance of mathematics learning.