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Research Study – Published: June 12, 2016


Relation between Study Habits and Academic Achievement of Higher Secondary Arts and Science Students: A Study.

PanneerSelvam, S. K.
ABSTRACT
The present study examined the impact of study habits of students in Trichy city, Tamil Nadu in relation to Academic achievement, Gender and Faculty. The main objectives were to analyze the study habits of Higher Secondary School students and to compare it in relation to Academic Achievement, Gender and Faculty. The research design is quantitative. The sample was selected randomly out of 180 students—90 were boys and 90 were girls. Out of these 180 students—60 were from Arts faculty, 60 from Science and 60 from Commerce Faculty. The questionnaire was administered for collecting data from the students and t-test and Pearson Correlation statistical methods were used for analysis of data. It was found that there is no significant difference in Mean study habit in relation to gender, and faculties such as Arts, Science and Commerce but there is a significant relationship between study habits and academic achievement of Higher Secondary School students.
Keywords: study habits, academic achievement, higher secondary students, arts students, science students, learning strategies, student performance
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
How to cite this article: PanneerSelvam, S. K. (2016). Relation between Study Habits and Academic Achievement of Higher Secondary Arts and Science Students: A Study. Indian Educational Researcher, 9(1), 28–36.
Received: March 7, 2016; Revision Received: April 6, 2016; Accepted: June 12, 2016.