Effect of Early Childhood Care and Education on the Academic Achievement among Vth Class Students in Relation to Family Structure and Working Status of Mothers

This study intends to study the effect of Early Childhood Care and Education on the th academic achievement among v class students in relation to family structure and working status of mothers. In the present study, 378 students from the 10 schools (5 government and 5 private) were selected from Jalandhar city. The students were classified on the basis of Early Childhood Care and Education along with their family structure and working status of mothers as a sample. Data blanks were used as a tool for the academic achievement. 2x2x2 design of analysis of variance was employed on the scores of academic achievement of children in relation to Early Childhood Care and Education, family structure and working status of their mothers. The findings of the study revealed that Children who are exposed to ECCE are academically high achievers than children who are not exposed to ECCE. Children who are brought up in joint family structure are high in academic achievement than children brought up in nuclear family. Children of non working mothers are higher in academics than children of working mothers. Keywords: Early Childhood Care and Education, family structure, working status of mother, academic achievement.