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Written By: Sudhakar Jha | Published : September 10, 2018 6:17 PM IST
This new study has explained that it’s your genes which play an important role in the academic performance of the kids © Shuterstock
Be it your grasping capacity in the elementary school to the marks you get in your boards exams, they all depend on the genes you are carrying. Yes, that's what a new study has found. This new study has explained that it's your genes which play an important role in the academic performance of the kids.
Many researches have linked the educational achievements to the life we get later, but this time researchers have studied what are prerogatives for the overall good academic performance in school.
Psychology postdoctoral Margherita Malanchini, said in the study, "Around two-thirds of individual differences in school achievement are explained by differences in children's DNA. But less is known about how these factors contribute to an individual's academic success over time."
The researchers, in their study found that educational achievements were highly stable throughout schooling, meaning that those students who started off well in primary school continued to do well until their graduation.
And what contributed in this throughout success was the genes of the students. The study said that 70 per cent of the stability was linked to the genetic factors. On the other hand, the twins shared environment contributed to about 25 per cent, and their non-shared environment, like friends or teachers, contributed to the remaining 5 per cent.
"Academic achievement is driven by a range of cognitive and noncognitive traits. Previously, studies have linked it to personality, behavioural problems, motivation, health and many other factors that are partly heritable," Malanchini added in the study.
Published in the journal, Science of Learning, the team noticed that the grades did change sometimes in the primary and secondary level, and contributed it to the nonshared environmental factors.
