Parents Education and Their Desciplining Behavior Effects on Academic Achievement Among the Secondary School Students

This study was designed to identify whether the secondary school students academic achievement is dependupontheir parents education and theirdesciplining behavior.Its a descriptive survey study.Questionnaires were used by the researcher to obtain quantitative data related to the parents education, their disciplining behavior and the strategies employed for their students’ academic achievement.The main objective of the study was to find out the relationship between parents educational background and theirdesciplining behavior in related to their secondary school studentsacademic achievement.T-test was used to find outthe significant difference between the mean scores of the students based on gender and locality of school. Person product moment correlation® used to see the relationship between parents disciplining behavior and thestudent’s academic achievement. The findings of the study indicatethat there is a significant relationship betweenparents education and theirdesciplining behavior and academic achievement among the secondary school students.