EFFECT OF POOR STUDY HABITS ON STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
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ABSTRACT
The Study habits of individual going through educational process are what will determine the study skills such individual Would possess and invariably determine the level of academic achievement or performance. Study habits call be categorized Into either good or poor.
This study was embarked upon to find out various causes and effects of poor study habits on students’ academic achievement. I also embarked upon this study with the hope to contribute suggestions and recommendations that would reduce these poor habits to the barest minimum if not totally eradicated.
The population was JSS 2 Students from one public school and two private secondary schools chosen from urban and rural areas of the local government under study.
A total of 80 Students were randomly selected from the schools as the Population sample. The research design for this study was survey, descriptive as questionnaire was used to collect the necessary data.
The instruments used to collect the data were:
1. Ten item questionnaire that sought information on the socioeconomic status of the respondents.
2. 40 item questionnaire that sought information on the study habits of respondents.
The data was analyzed by the use of t.test Statistics Method. The study tested three hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The analyses of the data collected revealed that there is a significant difference in the study habits of students attending rural and urban schools, private and public school and those from low and high socio-economic background. The Study also revealed that there is no gender difference in terms of Study habits.
Differences revealed in the study habits of students from rural arid urban school, high and low socio-economic background and high and low fees paying schools is a challenge to the government. There is need to improve infrastructures in rural areas, revamp the economic sector and reduce the general poverty level among its citizens which is the common features in these three groups of variables discussed above.
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