Relationship between achievement and sociopsychological environment of secondary schools located in communities belonging to five social welfare levels

Abstract

This study is an attempt to assess the sociopsychological environment of high schools as perceived by their students and to find out the relationship between academic achievement and sociopsychological environment of these secondary schools located in communities belonging to five social welfare levels. The schools included in the study are five national high schools and five barangay high schools in Iloilo where one national and one barangay high school are in a municipality in each of the five social welfare levels, Answers to the following questions were sought: 1. What are the sociopsychological environments of high schools as perceived by their students? 2. Do the school environments of national high schools significantly differ from those of barangay high schools? 3. Is the sociopsychological environment (achievement, orientation, orderliness, dynamism, supportiveness, personal dignity, control) of a school associated with academic achievement? 4. Is there relationship between social welfare levels and the perception scores of students in regard to each dimension of school environment? 5. Is there a significant difference between the perception scores of boys and the perception scores of girls in regard to each dimension of school environment?