This study used path analysis to examine the relationships between schooling, student background and academic achievement in the public general senior high schools in Surabaya, Indonesia. The study assessed the relative effects of classroom, schooling and background factors on student progress in school, and also attempted to determine the extent to which the effects of these factors were mediated by intervening variables such as academic ability, students' educational expectations, teacher quality and classroom social climate. From October 1982 to May 1983, data were collected from 442 students and 60 teachers in 15 public general senior high schools in Surabaya. / Findings of the study suggest that students' prior educational preparation, educational expectations and teacher quality had direct positive and significant effects on academic achievement, while parents' socioeconomic status and school organizational complexity had little. Age of students and graduation from a rural junior high school had direct significant negative effects on student academic achievement. Students' efforts such as frequency of library use and number of hours of study at home, and other intervening variables such as student body composition in the classroom and classroom climate factors also had positive effects on student progress in school. / Although student academic ability, teacher quality, classroom relations and student efforts had significant effects on academic achievement, other explanatory variables such as parents' socioeconomic status and school organizational complexity directly shaped the pattern of these practices, qualities, processes and activities. These findings suggest that academic achievement continues to be influenced by previous performance in junior high school, teacher quality, peer pressure in senior high school, and individual educational expectations. Nevertheless, parents' practices associated with SES also play a significant role in this process. Care should be taken in interpreting the effects of the process and quality variables associated with schooling, as senior high school students in Indonesia are a pre-selected group, selected by socioeconomic factors as much as by academic effort. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-04, Section: A, page: 0946. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75525 |
| Contributors | SOEGIYANTO, SALEH., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 292 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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