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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.
Responding Author: PanneerSelvam, S. K. @ panneerselvam@gmail.com
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Published in Volume 9, Issue 1, January – June, 2016