Date of Award
1982
Degree Name
Social Studies
College
College of Liberal Arts
Type of Degree
M.A.
Document Type
Thesis
First Advisor
William A. Paynter
Second Advisor
Mahlon C. Brown
Abstract
During the past two decades a substantial amount of educational research has focused on the relationship between socioeconomic status and school achievement. Many researchers believe that a strong correlation exists between these two factors while others present evidence to refute this hypothesis. It appears that most of these investigations fall into one of three categories. Arthur Jensen, a well known advocate of genetic determinism, contended that eighty percent of the variance in intelligence could be accounted for by hereditary factors. This position supported a belief that children from families living in poverty from one generation to the next tended to perform poorly in school environments due to inherent genetic inferiority.
Subject(s)
Academic achievement - West Virginia.
Students - Socioeconomic status - West Virginia.
Performance in children - West Virginia.
Recommended Citation
Hall, Orman E. Jr., "The Relationship Between Selected Socioeconomic Variables and the Third Grade Academic Achievement of Pupils in West Virginia" (1982). Theses, Dissertations and Capstones. 176.
https://mds.marshall.edu/etd/176
