The Relationship between Mothers’ Educational Levels and their Children’s Academic Performance
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Mothers' educational levels; Student performance; Academic achievement; Educated mothersAbstract
The objective of this research is to identify the relationship between mothers' educational levels and their children's academic performance. To achieve this objective, a quantitative research method (correlation design) was applied to explore the relationship and a SPSS program was used to analyze the data. The data was collected from 50 random mothers in the Kingdom of Bahrain that have at least one child in the primary stage of school. An electronic questionnaire was used to describe the studying atmosphere at home and to determine the nature of the relationship between the study variables. The relationship was analyzed using Spearman's rank correlation coefficient (Spearman's rho). The results revealed that there is no relationship between a mother's educational levels and their children's performance.
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