Faculty of Arts & Culture South Eastern University of Sri Lanka Oluvil # 32360 Sri Lanka
Abstract
In today’s world education helps man to live properly. In this respect, at present
stage Third World Countries play an important role in the development of
education. To suit this trend literacy development of Sri Lanka helps to provide
free education. Even it is so, socio – economic factors gain importance in the
decline of education level. In Asia, Sri Lanka is in the high rank in literacy
(92.5%). It becomes important to carry out educational level research in the
Vadamaradchchcy division which is in Jaffna district. The effort of the researcher
is viewed as conducive to socio- economic factors, it helps to education and to the
development of the region as well. Future education restructuring is indispensable
considering the past education level. The research conducted in this respect would
be very useful. In this way the, relationship was found out with the help of
statistical methods. There is a negative relationship found between the level of
education of parents, irregular attendance, socio – economic environment the
number of children and educational achievement. In the education level of the
school children of the research area is to identify on what extend and what type of
influence are exerted by socio – economic factors also analyzed in this research.
The schools in Karaveddy, Pointpedro, and Marujankeny in the Vadamaradchchy
division were taken for research. 226 students from two developed schools and tow
les developed school were subjected for this research and the role of socio –
economic factors also analysed. This socio – economic factors such as school
attendance, educational level of parent, their interests, displacement, education
facilities, private education facilities, addiction to liquor of father, Family and
socio economic levels, living environment, number of children in the family also
influence the education level. The result for obtained considering the above
hypothesis. In this respect socio –economic factors are found to have significant
influence in the educational level of students in the research area
