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Impact of Socio-Economic Factors on Students’ Academic Performance: A Case Study of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya

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Quality education is an essential tool for students’ cognitive, intellectual, social, and personal development and to makes them responsible citizens of any nation. Identifying students’ strong and weaker intellectual skills and subject areas is essential for a continuous learning cycle and educational policymaking. So, to enhance the student's overall growth as an individual, we need to analyse and predict the students’ academic performance. This paper studies the impact of socioeconomic factors on students’ academic performance using Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) case study. JNVs are the schools established to provide quality education to the unprivileged and rural students. We collected 257 students’ data from (JNV) Khunga Kothi, Jind, Haryana, India, of five successive batches to examine their academic achievements from admission in 6th to their passing 10th class. The results show that the students’ socioeconomic variables, such as caste, residence, and father occupation, impact their academic performance in the 6th class but cease to do so after five years of their residential study. Moreover, the female students performed significantly better than the male students. Furthermore, we observed the difference in the students’ performance from admission to five years. The results indicate improvement in performance and a strong correlation between the 6th and 10th class marks. Therefore, we proposed a regression model that predicts the students’ performance to help the students at an early stage. Observations also suggest that delivering better learning opportunities to the students belonging to the unprivileged classes can improve their academic performance.

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Devi, K., Ratnoo, S., Bajaj, A. (2022). Impact of Socio-Economic Factors on Students’ Academic Performance: A Case Study of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya. In: Abraham, A., et al. Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications. IBICA 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 419. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96299-9_73

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