Impact of Home Environment on Academic Achievement of IX Standard Students of Various Castes in Coimbatore City

Abstract

Children acquire skills and characteristics from learning and observation. The home and school environments take major part in shaping the behavioural pattern and the academic achievement of school children. Parents and the home environment certainly have their impact on the education of the children and will affect the cognitive domain and the academic achievement of school children. This paper tries to identify the impact of the variables of the home environment such Reward, Control, Rejection, Punishment and Conformity on the academic achievement of School children with reference to the castes.