The Comparative Academic Achievement of Orphanage and Non-Orphanage Children

The relationship of socioeconomic status to personality inventory and achievement test scores.

“…Snyder and Snyder 86 found no relationship between background factors of personality maladjustment symptoms in children and economic level of family, A study of seventy-seven matched pairs of orphanage and non-orphanage children revealed no differences in school achievement marks, but it did reveal better citizenship scores for non-orphanage children, and better attendance records for orphanage children. 2 The number of studies reporting positive relationships between socio-economic status and educational and adjustment variables is much greater. An excellent study by Neugarten" using socio-metric methods depicted the co-variability between friendship status and reputation of school children in a Midwestern community and the social class position of their family.…”

“…Cloud, Minnesota. The variables considered were: (1) socioeconomic status, as measured by the American Home Scale; (2) From the total of six grade-schools, three were selected for special comparison the highest, lowest, and median school on the socio-economic status continuum. The number of children in each school was twenty-one, twenty-three, and twenty-nine, respectively.…”