@article{education20186818,
author={{Soliman, Jessica B. and Soliman, Victor S. and Paje, Ma. Jocelyn J. and Pereyra, Myrna C.},
title={Correlates of Academic Performance in Pupils under a Feeding Program},
journal={American Journal of Educational Research},
volume={6},
number={8},
pages={1188--1193},
year={2018},
url={http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/6/8/18},
issn={2327-6150},
abstract={School feeding (SF) has long been a welfare scheme adopted in the Philippines but there are very limited empirical studies that assessed its effectiveness. The nutrition-cognition nexus needs to be examined especially that regular SF program has been institutionalized recently by the government. From a set of socioeconomic factors and anthropometric measures, the present study determined which of them are significantly associated with the composite final grade of pupils. All recipients (N=80 malnourished primary schoolchildren were served lunch) of the <i>¡°</i><i>Busog</i>-<i>Lusog</i>-<i>Talino</i><i>¡±</i> (¡°<i>Full-Healthy-Bright</i>¡±) School Feeding Program in San Carlos Elementary School in southern Bicol (Philippines) for two school years were participants to the study. Pearson correlation analysis revealed that parents¡¯ education and pupils¡¯ concurrent body mass index (BMI) are positive explanatory factors correlated with the final grade. Differing from many studies where mother¡¯s education had commonly been a dominant and only parent gender significant factor to pupils¡¯ academic achievement, the study revealed that under circumstances of poor family economic status the education of fathers had higher association than mothers¡¯. Concurrent BMI (i.e., measured while the school feeding was implemented) is significantly linked to pupils¡¯ grades providing evidence for the need in sustaining good nutrition from school to the home. Schoolchildren under varying low levels of nutritional status and with low parents¡¯ education are predisposed to low academic performance. Implications of the findings to improving school feeding monitoring were elucidated.},
doi={10.12691/education-6-8-18}
publisher={Science and Education Publishing}
}