A study of the relationships of some factors to academic achievement

Abstract

The study was designed to find out the relationships of different factors: intelligence; socio-economic status, study habits, and attitudes to academic achievement. Students randomly selected from the senior class of the Central Philippine University High School in 1970-1971 were used as samples. This consisted of sixty-three boys and sixty-four girls.

The instruments used to obtain data were the Philippine Self-Administering Mental Ability Test, the Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes (by Holtzman and Brown) and a socio-economic questionnaire designed by the researcher. Achievement tests were constructed, pretested, and validated on five academic subjects namely: Composition, Literature, History, Trigonometry, and Physics.