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1. DISCUSSION ISSUES ON
DISPARITIES IN ACHIEVEMENT
OF STUDENT
GROUP NAME:
NOR SHUHADA SURIA SHA’ARI
FATIN AMIRA YUNUS
ATINA HASANAH MOHD GHAZALI

2. WHAT IS MEAN BY STUDENT
ACHIEVEMENT?
• Student achievement is doing well academically,
obtains life skills and giving back to their community.
• Sometimes, student achievement is based on teacher
quality.

3. RURAL AREA
 Rural area is a geographic area that is located outside cities and
towns.
 National Education Association said that the low performing youth
are in public rural schools(Brown&Swanson).
 Less achievement than other schools, variation exist between states.
 For example, there is a large math achievement gap between rural
and non-rural areas but some rural areas area are above average
and other are just average(Brown & Swanson).

4. URBAN AREA
 average income of parents (defined as combined financial
incomes of father and mother) in urban areas was found to be
RM21,417 per year as compare with RM12,438 (about 40 per cent
lower) for rural parents.
 availability of resources like books, computers, art and science
supplies and course offerings. The availability of fewer resources in
many rural schools than those in urban areas are often related to
more limited curricula for these rural schools (DeYoung and
Lawrence, 1995; Hall and Barker, 1995).

5. WHY THERE
DIFFERENCES IN
ACADEMIC
ACHIEVEMENT

7. FAMILY
 NO Family support and achievement in mathematics and science
or academic.
 Students who obtain parental support usually achieve a good
academic record.
 Parental involvement in education of their children can have a
positive impact in the development of their children.

8. TEACHER
 teachers do not use the correct method for teaching and learning
activities based on students' ability levels.
 teachers teach too fast. therefore students do not understand and
then make students less interested in the subject.

9. STUDENT
 Personality factors play an important role in influencing a student's
academic achievement (Eysenck 1979).According to psychologists,
personality includes thoughts, perceptions, values, attitudes,
character, ability, confidence, intelligence, motivation, habits and
so on.
 Students who have extrovert characteristics of sociability, quickly
remove opinion, friendly, creative, and be more open with better
academic achievement.
 Normally, students will be good and successful when they are
friends with a good friend and hardworking.

10. HOW TO
OVERCOME THE
PROBLEM

11.  Many steps have to be take to make sure that performances in
education among rural school are same with urban school.
 To overcome this problem we have highlight a few factor that
effect the performances.
 The several ways should be taken are the role of:
1) Student
2) Teacher
3) Parent and environment
4) Management of school
5) Ministry of education

12. STUDENT
 The students itself should realize the importance of education in their
future lives.
 If they want a better life in the future they must study hard to get a
good performance.
 Usually students at rural area does not care about their education and
most of them dropout from schooling. This is because they do not have
motivation in their study and their parents also did not care about their
performance.
 So in order to overcome the gap performance between students in
rural and urban areas, rural students should set their mind that
education is important to change their lives. When they have a mindset
that education is important, they will study hard in order to get a good
achievement.

13. TEACHER
 The teacher is an important force in school learning.
 Teachers also one of the sources that can help in overcomes the problem of low
performance among rural students.
 Teachers can help in encouraging the students to study hard and help them to
complete most of their work at school during study time, where students can ask
teachers if they do not understand about the lesson.
 If they are doing work at home, nobody can help them since their parents might not
be able to assist because most of parents in rural areas have less education.
Teachers should encourage their students to participate in many activities because it
will give them the opportunity to build their self-confident and positive self-esteem.
 Besides that, teacher also can create a caring and supportive environment where
students will feel more comfortable during their learning. Good relationship between
students and teacher also good in order to improve students’ performance where
when teachers are close with the students, students will feel easy and not shy to ask
anything that they do not understand.

14. PARENT AND ENVIRONMENT
 While the teachers play their role at school, parents should play their
roles at home.
 Although parents in rural areas have no education, they can help their
children performance in terms of giving them moral supports and
motivation to learn.
 Even they cannot help in terms of provide resources to learn, they can
give a support to their child to study hard to change the fate of their
family.
 Parents should realize how important of education to their child and
their future.
 Parents can always ask their child about their learning progress and
accompanied them during doing their work.
 They also must always care about their child performance and monitor
their progress.

15. SCHOOL
 District Education Office and the parties must prepare a report
containing diagnsis student achievement.
 Classroom organization plays an important role in attracting
students follow the teaching and learning of mathematics.
 Headmaster / Principal of the school as an organization
administrator must explain clearly the matters relating to the
Mathematics Panel like in structure and organization, its aims and
objectives and roles.

16. MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
 Government has to play a role in improving educational outcomes for rural students.
 Government should provide enough facilities to the schools that located in rural
areas same as the urban schools. Besides that, government also must provide a
financial support to the students that lives in rural areas where we know that most of
them come from low income families and not affordable to gain a better education
and services.
 Facilities that were provided must be fair and equal treatment should be given to
rural schools same like urban schools.
 In addition, best educators also should be placed in rural schools because they can
help students to improve their performance.
 Good teachers will produce good students. Most important is government should
ensure that teachers are adequately qualified to teach the subject that allocated for
them and they can do their work properly.
 Education department also should visit all schools to establish and verify their needs
to ensure that resources are allocated in line with their needs and status.

17. OUR OPINION

18.  From the results we have discuss, what we want to conclude that
there are differences of school achievement between urban / rural
areas. Most obvious is the rural schools. We said this was based on
the search that we do. It is further strengthened by the results of
statistical PMR and SPM urban / rural Malay 2009, in his article titled
National Views On achievement gap of urban and rural students.

20. CONCLUSION
 The study presented the differences of performances between students in rural and
urban areas. Rural and urban schools are characterized by its unique strength and
weaknesses. “Rural and urban schools are much the same when it comes to resources
and learning environments” (EQR, 2003, p.45). Yet there are many variables that
affect students’ achievement and those variables are directly related to whether a
school is considered a rural or an urban school. Some factors that contribute to the
gap performances between students in these two areas were determined and also
recommendations in order to overcome this problem were suggested. Although some
recommendations have been highlighted, solutions might not be easy for them.
 The suggestions for improving the performance among rural students is that they must
understand their environment properly, and maintain their inner resources like self-efficacy
and self-esteem. From this study we can conclude that, there have
differences between students performance in rural and urban schools. Students that
lives in urban area will get high performance excel opportunities provided by their
location. Urban students have greater access to many resources and therefore have
opportunities that are not easily accessible to rural students. Besides that urban
parents were more professional and they realize the advantage of education. Parents
of rural students were less likely to expect their children to advance their education.
From the comparison of this study we can know what the differences between rural
and urban schools are.