AN ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF INTELLIGENCE ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT.

The article presents the fact that an analysis of the effect of intelligence on the relationship between socio-economic status and academic achievement. Academic achievement can be defined as success in learning and using the subject matter as defined and taught by the public and private school in the United States. This success is usually measured by a system of assigning particular values or grades to certain comparative levels of achievement. Emphasis in the past has been on attempting to affect the results of a student's early social environment in order to improve his school success and, subsequently, his later opportunities. The basic problem is one of reaching an adequate definition of intelligence The various tests available today purport to measure the intelligence based on the assumption that it is an innate capacity which everyone possesses in varying amounts, and which is "obscured" by environmental factors. If the determinants are environmental, the problem becomes one of isolating them and then controlling them.