Having problems with your academic performance in school? There might be an explanation for that! Some says intelligence affects academic performance and intelligence is hereditary, therefore, academic performance is hereditary. Do you actually believe in that hypothesis? I DON’T! Aside from values, priorities and study habits, there may be a better explanation for poor academic performance. It might not be hereditary but it may be innate.
I work as a tutor after classes. I had one Grade 1 student who’s a consistent honor student since Kinder. One time, she got a 4/10 in a Reading quiz. Her mom was so shocked so she talked to the teacher. The quiz happened to be the first listening quiz of that student. When her mother and I talked to the student, she said she can hardly hear the teacher. The mother was so worried so she brought her to an EENT doctor and found out that her daughter has auditory problems in her right ear. See how auditory problems can affect children and their academic performance?
A study last year by Rajni Dhingra, Sarika Manhas and Nidhi Kohli just gave parents better answers to their student’s poor academic performance. They studied the relationship of perceptual abilities with academic performance of children. They studied 200 4th to 6th grader underachiever students in Jammu and Kashmir State in India. They measured poor academic performance through their grades in school as they studied for areas of perceptual abilities- visual , auditory, kinaesthetic and tactile. Their results showed that around one fourth of the participants scored poorly in either visual, auditory or kinaesthetic perception. Only a few number of students scored poorly in the tactile perception. So what does their study show? There is a high correlation between visual, auditory and kinaesthetic perception and academic performance.
The issue of grade consciousness among parents is very common. It’s understandable because everyone would like the best for their children and through grades; children prove that they’
re learning in school. However, poor performance in school shouldn’t always be the end basis of everything. Perception plays a big part in a child’s life. Understanding them and their perceptual needs is essential. Who might know, a poor performing child might be an overachiever if his or her needs are met.
Rajni Dhingra, Sarika Manhas and Nidhi Kohli (2010). Relationship of Perceptual Abilities withAcademic Performance of Children. J Soc Sci, 23(2): 143-147 (2010). As retrieved from http://www.krepublishers.com/02-Journals/JSS/JSS-23-0-000-10-Web/JSS-23-2-000-10-Abst-PDF/JSS-23-2-143-10-575-Dhingra-R/JSS-23-2-143-10-575-Dhingra-R-Tt.pdf
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