EFFECT OF STUDY HABITS ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF GEOGRAPHY STUDENTS IN SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOL
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EFFECT OF
STUDY HABITS ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF GEOGRAPHY STUDENTS IN SELECTED
SECONDARY SCHOOL
ABSTRACT
In educational
situation, success is measured by academic performance or how well a student
meets standards set out by the institution attended.Nevertheless, reviews of
students, teachers, and parents perceptions reveal that homework and
assignments help students achieve better grades. This study shows students who
gather information from the internet can be self-directed and independent.In
addition, some recent studies have uncovered a more positive relationship
between homework and students performance. This research shows the effect of
Study habits on students of the selected senior secondary schools within the
Mainland Local Government area of Lagos State. This can be viewed interms of
note taking and time management especially on Geography as a subject.
In this
research work the use of questionnaires were used to obtain data from the 5
selected senior secondary schools within the Mainland Local Government. In
which a total number of 200 questionnaires were administered randomly.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.0 Background of the Study
Education is
the process of developing the capacities and potentials of the individual so as
to prepare that individual to be successful in a specific society or culture.
From this perspective, education is serving primarily as an individual
developmental function. Education begins at birth and continues throughout
life. It is constant and ongoing. Schooling generally begins somewhere between
the ages of four and six when children are gathered together for the purpose of
specific guidance related skills and competencies that society deems important.
In the past decades, once the formal primary and secondary schooling was
completed the process was finished. However, in today’s information age, adults
are quite often learning in informal settings throughout their working lives
and even into retirement.
Education,
in its broadest sense, may be defined as a process designed to inculcate the
knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to enable individuals to cope
effectively with their environment (Abdulkareem, 2000). Its primary purpose is
to foster and promote the fullest individual self-realization for all people.
Achieving this goal requires understanding of commitment to the proposition
that education is a primary instrument for social and economic advancement of
human welfare (Verma, 2000). The world is becoming more and more competitive
and quality of performance has become the key factor for personal progress.
Parents desire that their children climb the ladder of academic performance to
as high a level as possible. This desire for a high level of performance puts a
lot of pressure on students, teachers, and schools and in general, the
education system itself. It appears as if the whole system of education
revolves round the academic performance of students, though various other
outcomes are also expected from the system. Thus, a lot of time and effort of
the schools are used in helping students to achieve better in their scholastic
endeavours. The importance of scholastic and academic performance has raised
important questions for educational researchers (Ramaswamy, 2000).
Jimoh
(2000), also described education as the totality of the experiences made
available to individuals in formal or informal situations, to make them develop
a rounded personality and to be useful to themselves and the society at large.
From the knowledge so far, it can be concluded that education, inculcates the
knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to enable individuals to cope
effectively with their environment. Considering the numerous advantages that
are derived from education, no amount of resources expended on it can be
described as too much. For that matter, a person’s education is closely linked
to life chances, income level and well-being (Battle & Lewis, 2002).
Therefore, it is important to have a clear understanding of what benefits or
hinders one’s educational attainment.
Parents and guardians send their children to school to acquire relevant
educational skills, knowledge and good morals so as to be useful to themselves
and the society.
1.4Statement
of the Problem
This
research problem emanated as a result of the increasing nature of poor academic
performance among senior secondary school students in Geography, especially in
external examinations like JAMB and SSCE. Many educationists tend to shift the
blame on the teaching methodology adopted by teachers and lack of funds from
the government to provide quality textbooks. And these might not be the main
reasons why students perform poorly in examinations. However, reports on the
high rate of poor academic performance in senior secondary schools in the
subject of Geography are of great concern to many Nigerians. Observations and
interactions with students indicate that most senior secondary school students
studying Geography have poor study habits which might lead to poor academic
performance
1.5 Purpose of the Study
This study
is to investigate the influence of study habits on the academic performance of
Geography students in mainland local government area of Lagos State.
1.3 Significance of the Study
This
research is intended to add to the existing information on the influence of
study habits on academic performance of senior secondary school students. The
results of this study could be of significance to students, teachers, parents,
school counsellors, policy makers and the government in assisting and
encouraging students to realize the importance of study habits on their
academic performance. Students will benefit more from the findings of this
study as they will be offered the necessary assistance as and how to develop
good study habits which will help to improve upon their academic performance.
Students will also be given information on how study habits affect their
academic performances and the results of this study will make them aware of the
common study habits among other co-students.
Also this
could serve as a guide to teachers and school counsellors who always have the
desire to see their students perform well by giving them the right techniques
of developing study habits. It will again help teachers in understanding better
the diversity of learning in students and as such, develop more effective
methodologies in teaching their subject matter for better understanding of
students.
Furthermore,
parents on the other hand will be accorded the opportunity to play their roles
in providing motivation and rewards to their children to encourage the
formation and maintenance of good study habits at the family level. Also, the
study will help the government to provide the needed learning materials and facilities
to motivate students to enhance the development of good study habits.
Finally, the
study will serve as a guide and resource document to policy makers and
stakeholders in developing curriculum materials and text books, taking into
consideration students’ needs and aspirations as they study to pass their
examinations both at the secondary and tertiary levels.
1.4 Research Questions
The
following research questions were raised and answered in the course of this
study:
i. Will poor attendance have
any significant effect on academic performance of geography students in selected
secondary schools in Mainland Local
Government Area of Lagos state?
ii. Will poor note taking skills
have any significant effect on academic
performance of geography students in selected secondary schools in
Mainland Local Government Area
of Lagos state?
iii. Will poor time management skills
have any significant effect on academic
performance of geography students in selected secondary schools in
Mainland Local Government Area
of Lagos state?
iv. Will failure to read instructions
have any significant effect on academic
performance of geography students in selected secondary schools in
Mainland Local Government Area
of Lagos state?
v. Will over reliance on other
students have any significant effect on academic performance of geography students in
selected secondary schools in Mainland
Local Government Area of Lagos state?
1.5 Limitation of the Study
The
researcher encountered problems during the course of carrying out this
research; such problems were as a result of selected respondents who refused to
accept and participate and also encountered difficulty in acquiring relevant
materials and items. The attitude of selected subjects to fill the
questionnaire to time so as not to delay the result of the research also posed
a problem. However, the researcher appealed to the participants through
persuasive means.
1.6 Scope/Delimitation of the Study
This study
was delimited to the following:
1. Survey Research Design
2. Use of questionnaire, simple frequency
counts of percentage was used in the presentation of demographic data while the
inferential statistics of Chi-Square (x2) was used in testing the stated
hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance.
3. 200 out of 32,899 senior secondary school
students (www.ekoproject.org) served as sample for this study
4. 5 out of 43 senior secondary schools in
Mainland Local Government area of Lagos state (www.ekoproject.org) provided
sample for this study
1.7 Operational Definition of Terms
Academic
Performance: It is the outcome of education the extent to which a student has
achieved his/her educational goals.
Class
Attendance: refers to the students or number of students that are present
Note taking
Skill: refers to the process or art of recording information that has
originated from a source for the purposes of disseminating that information at
a later time. Usually, note taking will occur during discussions where a
teacher or lecturer is dictating notes for a particular topic or during a
presentation where the the audience will note down information being presented.
Study habit:
An action or pattern of learning that is repeated so often that it becomes
typical of somebody
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