Individual Parental Involvement versus Peer Relationships Influences on Student Academic Achievement in Biology

Abstract

This paper attempts to review the impacts of single parenting, it’s factors versus peer groups and its factors on students’ academic performance in Biology, the paper research objectives such as investigating the differences in academic achievement between kids raised by co-parents and those by single parents, investigating the academic performance gaps between single-parent students who are male and female, determining how much a student's peer group affects their academic achievement, determining if children of single parents are more susceptible to peer pressure than children of co-parents. The paper reviewed several previous works from scholars on different concepts revolving around the research study including; Single Parenting, Peer Group, Concept of Academic achievements, Concept of Parenting and Academic achievements and Concept of Peer group and Academic achievement.