Research Title: Determining the Relevance of Socio-Economic Status in the Academic

Performance of the Students of Bukidnon State University College of Arts and Sciences
Research Problems:
Question 1. What are the demographic characteristics of the respondents?
Dependent Variable: Gender, Academic Performance
Independent Variable: Socio-economic Status
Group: Male and Female Students of Bukidnon State University
Question 2.What is the relationship between socio-economic status and academic performance
to the students of Bukidnon State University?
Dependent Variable: Academic Performance
Independent Variable: Socio-economic status
Group: Male and Female students of Bukidnon State University
Question 3.How relevant is the socio-economic status of a student to its academic performance?
Dependent Variable: Academic Performance
Independent Variable: Socio-economic status
Group: Male and Female students of Bukidnon State University
Theory: Numerous studies have shown that the socioeconomic (SES) achievement gap is the
main cause of inequality of students in schools and other educational systems (Bourdieu 1989;
Carnoy 2007; Shavit and Blossfeld 1993, as cited in Doren, 2013).
Reference: (European Journal of English Language and Literature Studies, Vol.2, No.1, PP.4957, March 2014)
Relevance: It is important to magnify this issue to determine whether socioeconomic status (ses)
plays a major impact on the students academic performance, and if it does, to determine how
influential socioeconomic status is to the ability of the student to perform academically.
Conceptual Framework:

Independent
Variable:

Dependent
Variable:

Socio-Economic
Status

Academic
Performance