@article{Reyes-Baybay_2018, title={The Relationship of Birth Order and Academic Achievement of PUP Santa Rosa Campus Second Year Students}, volume={3}, url={https://knepublishing.com/index.php/KnE-Social/article/view/2431}, DOI={10.18502/kss.v3i6.2431}, abstractNote={<p>Throughout the history, birth order is a significant concept in families of different cultures and race. Every child in the family may differ from his/her siblings because of his/her role in the family. The first born may be a lot more different from the second born and last born. His/her academic achievement may also be affected because of the expectancy from parents. Individual personality of a child may also influence by his/her role in the family for it is his/her first group experience. According to Adler, character traits and behaviours derive primarily from developmental issues, including birth order. This study was conducted to examine birth order’s<br>relationship to academic achievement in order to further understand the links between the said variables.<br>This research was conducted to determine if birth order is related to the academic achievement of the second year students of Polytechnic University of the Philippines - Sta. Rosa Campus. A descriptive type of research was used in this study. The research locale is the Polytechnic University of the Philippines – Sta. Rosa Campus. With a total population of 766 second year students enrolled during the school year 2014-2015, using Sloven’s Sampling Technique with 5 percent margin of error, sample size were arrived at 263 respondents. The researcher used a researcher made questionnaire in collecting information among the respondents. Based on the statement of the problems, findings were a greater number of respondents were middle child who has a good academic performance. Likewise, a p value of 0.584 was obtained which was higher than the 0.05 level of significance which reveals that there is no significant relationship between the respondents’ birth<br>order and academic achievement. The respondents’ birth order has little to no bearing on their academic achievement. Therefore, the null hypothesis is accepted.</p> <p><br><strong>Keywords:</strong> academic achievement, average grade point, birth order, first born, last born</p&gt;}, number={6}, journal={KnE Social Sciences}, author={Reyes-Baybay, M}, year={2018}, month={Jun.}, pages={939–946} }