The Use of Socioeconomic Status (SES) in PEMANTIK Instrument

How Parental Education and Occupation Explain the Relationship with Children Literacy and Numeracy Achievement?

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10.2991/978-2-38476-245-3_10How to use a DOI?

Keywords

socioeconomic status (SES); literacy and numeracy achievement; parental education; occupation

Abstract

Numerous research has shown the relationship between family SES with children literacy and numeracy achievement, even since the children were in preschool. However, there have been mixed results regarding this issue in Indonesia. This study aims to assess the quality of the Pengukuran Mandiri Literasi dan Numerasi (PEMANTIK) SES indicators and to examine the relationship between SES and children’s literacy and numeracy achievement. This research uses data from the subject age 6 - 12 years (n = 1,637) in Karawang Regency. Before looking into the association between family SES with children literacy and numeracy achievement, this research will first analyze whether the data on parental education and occupation could represent the family SES. The construct analysis found that SES Indicators on PEMANTIK is a good fit. The relationship between parents’ education and occupation could explain family and child’s SES, and there was a positive with moderate magnitude correlation between family SES with students’ literacy (r = 0.41) and numeracy (r = 0.55) achievement. Moreover, the further analysis shows that as the SES increases, the achievement also increases; leaving the low SES children with lower scores, compared with their high SES peers. Specific interventions are needed in order to alleviate this inequality issue, and particularly in assisting low SES children to learn in a more effective way which could improve their literacy and numeracy achievement.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Angela Merici Adem
AU  - I Nyoman Indhi Wiradika
AU  - Eri Yusron
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/05/20
TI  - The Use of Socioeconomic Status (SES) in PEMANTIK Instrument
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Current Issues in Education (ICCIE 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 82
EP  - 91
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-245-3_10
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-245-3_10
ID  - Adem2024
ER  -