Cognitive Ability, Levels of Parent's Education, Gender-Based Differences and Academic Achievement among Students of Elementary School in Semarang, Central Java
| Main Author: | Sulastri, Augustina |
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| Format: | Proceeding application/pdf |
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Satya Wacana University Press
, 2016
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| Online Access: |
http://repository.uksw.edu/handle/123456789/6874 |
Daftar Isi:
- Proceeding Seminar and Workshop Mid Year APECA 2015 in Salatiga. Guidance and Counselling Study Program Satya Christian Wacana University, p. 55 - 59
- The current research aimed at tapping correlations between cognitive ability, levels of parents' educational background, gender-based differences and academic achievement among students of elementary schools in Semarang. Participants were 114 students from three elementary state schools in Semarang, 56 (49.1%) were girls, and 58 (50, 9%) were boys. Cognitive ability was assessed using a standardized intelligence testing, CFIT, levels of parents' educational background were derived based on a self-report demographic inventory, and academic achievement was based on the academic report derived from academic records of each school. We used product moment correlations, t-test analysis and variance analysis to analyze the data of the current study. Results of the data analysis shown that cognitive ability was positively and significantly related with academic achievement (r = 0.34, p< .01), with no difference between girls and boys on cognitive ability (t (112) =-1.045; p> .05). Albeit the result shown that there was no gender-based difference on cognitive ability (t (112) = -1.045; p> .05), however, we found an interesting finding in which girls (M = 79, 37; SD = 5.84) outperformed boys (M = 73, 32; SD = 4, 49) on academic achievement. Moreover, results based on variance analysis shown that levels of fathers' education correlated nearly significant (or significant at p< .10) to academic achievement among these students (F = 2.246, p = 0.56 / p< .10). Discussion and implications of the study were discussed