Cognitive ability, level of parent's education, gender-based differences, and academic achievement among students of elementary school in Semarang, Central Java.

The current research aimed at tapping correlations between cognitive ability, level of parents' educational background, gender-based differences and academic achievement among students of elementary schools in Semarang. Participants were 114 students from elementary state schools in Semarang, 56 (49.1%) were girls, and 58 (50, 9%) were. Cognitive ability was assessed using a standardized intelligence testing, CFIT, levels of educational background were derived based on a self-report demographic inventory, and academic achievement was based on the academic report derived from records of each school. We used product moment correlations, t-test analysis and mediaton analysis to analyze the data of the current study. Results of the data analysis that cognitive ability was positively and significantly related with academic, with no difference between girls and boys on cognitive ability. Albeit the result shown that there was no gender-based difference cognitive ability (i (112) = -1.045; p> .05), however, we found an interesting finding in girls (M = 79,37; SD = 5.84) outperformed boys (M = 73,32; SD = 4, 49) on academic achievement. Moreover, results based on variance analysis shown that levels of fathers' education correlated nearly significant to academic achievement among these students. Discussion and implications of the study are discussed