Research Questions:
Introduction
Students lead very busy with their lives that cause them to spend too little
time in studying. Also, different students have different techniques on how to
study, they have their own and unique study habits. What may be a good study
habit to one student may be bad to another student. Study habits is one of the great
students or learning factors that hugely affect student’s achievements. This
efficient study habits are associated with the attitude towards learning. The attitude
of a student towards study has a big contribution on academic achievement, a good
study pattern. Lack of good study habits is a critical study problem among students
at all levels, especially on higher level, they were bombarded with school works.
While having effective study skills may be overlooked on the academic journey,
the researcher sat the tipping point in making good students into great students.
It’s important to know that there are different styles of learning and how a
person will retain information better in different ways. This will help the learner to
determine how to study, where to study, when to study and other important factors.
However, if the students develop good study pattern and with a good discipline,
they can perform well in their academic aspect. How a student takes his/her
studies, greatly determines his/her level of academic achievements and the level of
preparation and learning strategies developed by students. The best way is to
develop strong, disciplined study habits that help the learner on their assignments,
finish and understand the reading, write essays and ace the tests.
1. studying everyday
3. Turning off the phone, TV or technologies that can disturb the learner
These are the possible study habits that the students can relay on. There are several
factors that tend to affect students study habits. However, Gallinger and Seibert
(2002) noted a link between poor study habits and low academic achievement in
that the student that have poor study habits tends to have poor achievement. Thus,
study habits have great impact throughout the life on an individual. Weak study
habits of the students affect the academic performance drastically.Mark Howard
(2009) stated that most of the students in secondary school hardly know how to
study properly. In addition, Frank Pogue (2000) conducted a research project why
students fail, What he found to be true in that study habits survey was that students
fail because they do not know how to study. Nevertheless, an improvement of
study habits is necessary so that the can perform well in their studies. Another
study have shown that study habits can be affected by factors such as: