Perception on the association between school-affinity and academic achievement of secondary school students in Punjab, Pakistan

Abstract

This article explores the association between school-affinity and academic achievement among secondary school students in Punjab, Pakistan. Data was collected by administering 31 items agree-disagree type questionnaire to the randomly selected 8000 students from 1040 secondary schools. Multistage sampling maximized the representation. Factor analysis followed by Varimax rotation yielded six factors of school affinity: teachers’ personality and profile (behaviour), school environment, school status, peer-group, cooperative learning activities and school management. The study projected a model on the association of students with school-affinity. The academic achievements of the students were based on the Annual Results of 9^th class. Pearson Correlation Coefficients indicated significant association between school-affinity and academic attainment of students. Among demographic factors private school students had higher level of school-affinity whereas in gender differences female had more association with school than their male fellows.