Effect of Broken Home

Academic Perfomance of Students Coming from Broken Homes
CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study:

Broken homes are experience by some of the students not only with those in poverty line families but same goes to middle and higher class families. Parents chose to live separately regardless how their children feel and its impact to their lives, however, there are still parents in spite of the situation still supports and care of their children in their studies, and others.

It is worthy to note that majority of high school students in the country who got poor or failing grades in their academic subjects came from broken homes. Some of them as we saw were not just having poor academic performance but instead they let themselves be retained at their year level after dropping-out their respective subjects. It is timely to identify or to determine if students in high school who came from broken homes are greatly affected in their academic classes.

To find out the answers of this query, the researcher aims to study “The Academic Performance of Students Coming from Broken Homes”.

THE PROBLEM

Statement of the Problem:

This research study aimed to explore and determine the academic performance of high school students coming from broken homes. Likewise, it would found out whether students coming from broken homes affect their academic performance during the academic year 2010-2011.

Specifically, this research sought to answer the following sub-problems:

1.) What is the profile of the respondents in terms of:

1.1. gender; and

1.2. age?

2. What is the level of academic performance of the high school students coming from broken homes?

3. Is there a significant divergence from the normal curve of high school students’ academic performance coming from broken homes?

Statement Hypotheses

This study tested the following null hypotheses:

Ho1: There is no significant correlation between gender and academic performance.

Ho2: There is no significant correlation

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