IMPACT OF MOTHER'S EDUCATION ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF SCHOOL STUDENT.

Nowadays, parental' education background plays a vital role in school students' academic performance. Mother's attention towards students' curriculum completion is apparent, but her educational background favours getting the highest marks. Exploring the impact of mother's academic background on the students' academic performance is a challenging task. A statistical inferential study was done to identify the significant effect of mothers' education (medu - none, primary, 5th -9th, secondary, higher) on Portuguese secondary school students' academic performance (G3-final grade). The dataset was collected from two public schools in Portugal. The target dataset consists of 649 instances with 33 features was used for the study. Among 33 features, 28 are nominal type, and 5 are scale type. The authors considered the final grade as the dependent variable and medu as the independent variable, the samples were found to lack normality w.r.t medu (p < 0.05) but confirmed homogeneity in variance (p > 0.05). Therefore, the datasets experiment with two non-parametric statistical methods were used. The Kruskal-Walis one-way ANOVA test was used to find the significant difference between mother education literacy groups and pairwise comparison as posthoc test done with Mann-Whitney test using the SPSS 19 tool. There were significant differences in final grade towards medu groups with Chi² (4) =57.21, p < 0.05. Higher education study groups have a high impact (Md=906.50) on the final grade compared to other groups using posthoc test. The study's findings shall be fruitful for Educational stakeholders (students, teachers, parents, and school management). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]