International Research Journal of Education and Technology

This study looked at how much parental support, the school environment, and students' aspirations for their education were all related to each other. It also looked at how these factors predicted students' aspirations for their education. The technique uses 400 pupils from two districts in India's Kashmir division for a descriptive survey study. A sample of 200 urban and 200 rural pupils was equally distributed among the two groups of students. Using a stratified random sampling procedure, the 200 urban students in the sample were further split into 100 male and 100 female students, same like the rural students. Multiple regression, percentages, and statistics were used to examine the data. Of the secondary school students, approximately 24 percent, 50.25 percent, and 25.75 percent showed high, average, and low levels of school environment; 21.75 percent, 51 percent, and 27.25 percent showed high, average, and low levels of parental encouragement; and 18 percent, 55 percent, and 27 percent showed high, average, and low levels of educational aspiration. The study also demonstrated that there is a strong positive correlation between adolescents' aspirations for education and the school environment and parental support. With a magnitude of 15.1% of variance, parental encouragement and the school environment are significant predictors of educational aspiration.

Keywords: School environment, Parental encouragement, Educational Aspiration, Secondary School Students.