INTRODUCTION

Group 3:
Macalalad, Ana
Espineli, Mark Kenneth
Gaddi, Jessa Mae
Fernandez, Jessica Mae
Pantilanan, Jon Renzo

MOVE 1

Study habits have long been stereotyped as methods of students themselves in order to
pass. Studying isnt an easy process. It has a very complex procedure that would take time for the
students to retain every piece of information of every subject they are studying. For students, it is
highly recommended to develop their own study habits that will help themselves to ace their
classes. The key on developing study habits is to have self-discipline and proper motivation or
drive to study. Student nowadays tend to get lazy when their lessons are too hard for them to
understand. We, the researchers, are guilty of it. Aside from this, distractions must be also
identified to be able to be avoided by students. As we see, distractions are everywhere, they are
around us. It can come in many forms, sound, thoughts, person, and other things that will catch
our attention while studying. Through effective study habits and getting rid of distractions,
students will be efficient learners no matter how tough their course and subjects are.

In De La Salle University - Dasmarias, BS Accountancy and BSBA Management

Accounting are known as tough courses in College of Business Administration and Accountancy.
These programs have high standards and retention policy that makes it harder to be retained in

the program. Knowing the proper study habits and its distractions is a must for the students under
these programs because itll help them be more effective and efficient learners so that they will
be able to pass every subject they have and be retained in their course.

Study Habit can be derived as buying out a dedicated, scheduled and uninterrupted time
to apply ones self to the task of learning. (Guilleno; Lautriso; Napili, 2012). In determining your
personal study habits, there are factors to consider such as the place, time, external environment,
noise etc. There are students who can study while listening to music, others cannot. Others prefer
at day, some prefer at night. It really depends on the student where he/she is most comfortable
with and when his/her mind most active. Time management is one of the most important things
to practice when youre a college student. According to an article at www.consumeraffairs.com,
by being wise in time management between your studies and personal life, you can maximize
everything without unnecessary sacrifices (Digital distractions increasingly common in college
classrooms, 2013). Knowing the priorities and setting them at the right time to do is a great
convenience for the students. Through time management, students wont surely forget important
tasks to do and cramming/procrastinating would be avoided.

These studies will help us understand the different study habits in terms of their learning
environments and their attitude while studying. These articles will be helpful because they
provide facts that state the importance of the students environment and time management. It will
help the researchers differentiate the different environments the students are in in order to know
if these form of distractions are inevitable or not. Also, the students time mismanagement are
one of the suggested distractions, through this knowledge handed down, the research will be a lot
easier to be made more founded.

In learning, reading the text book or the material is not enough. Writing the text in your
own structure is recommended for it has a higher possibility to be retained in your mind as you
write it. According to the book How to study and other skills for success in college, simply
reading your text material is a lazy process. For an effective learning through reading, you must

form a structure in your own way of thinking for it will be more useful to you during tests and
easier to decipher (J. Deese; E. Deese, 1957). Another author of an online article, namely John
Grohol, said the same thing. According to his article Highly Effective Study Habits, if youre
making an outline out of a reading material, make sure to write it in your own terms for it is
more understandable and beneficial for you to learn (Grohol, 2006).

This study shows the new method discovered by the researcher when he found out that
reading books is not enough. Truly, writing ones own understanding in his own words will
create a bigger impact to his learning and the retention of his acquired knowledge. This study is
similar to the study to be conducted in research. The motive of this study is to showcase
innovative and underrated methods that could be used practically by students. Some students use
this method, either knowing it as useful, or not themselves; either way it is helpful. And the
researchers want to be ascertained that discovery of new methods are to take place through the
course of this study.

There are two types of distractions; the internal and external. It is said that the external
distractions are the easier to ditch. The mostly known external distraction is noise. According to
learningcommons.uoguelph.ca, concentration can be diminished through noise and other
disturbances. Therefore, students are having a hard time to retain and absorb what they have
studied. (Creative Commons, n.d.) So in order to be more focused, students must choose a quiet
place to study. It can be at the library, cafs, or on their own homes so that their learning will be
more efficient. Now, for the internal distraction, it is your own self. According to the online
article Top 5 External Study Distractions, your body can be the worst distraction while studying.
Sleeping, hunger, nature breaks and being physically uncomfortable easily breaks your
concentration (Roell, n.d.). Pressure is a common thing for students, but it should not get into
your head. According to the book Painless Study Techniques, a lot of time is consumed and is
often inefficient when students are already expectant of a works level of difficulty (Greenberg,
2009). A student must think positively and dont let pressure eat him/her because it will just
make him/her out of focus. Of all things before studying, you must relax and make yourself
comfortable. Also, multitasking is a big no for every student. According to an article at

NBCnews.com, multitasking, which is doing many tasks/things at the same time, is very rampant
among students nowadays that results to ineffective learning (Sullivan, 2013). Even though
multitasking is known to be a bad strategy in studying, many students practice this. Maybe it is
because their lack of time and same-day deadlines of their school works so they tend to do it. But
still, many professionals highly recommend students to avoid multitasking because it just makes
the learning worse. Also, you can affect others with this bad habit. According to the article
Students use of laptop in class lowers grades: Canadian Study, multitasking does not simply
affect the doer himself. Studies shows that also the people around the doer who can see the act of
multitasking itself can be also affected and their learning will not be that effective (Oliveira,
2013). These articles would be useful in a sense that it gives the researchers the idea that noise is
often uncontrollable; therefore it provides uncontrollable results. Also pressure is something
often ignored by students that they dont recognize the effect it has on them. It gives the
researches enough general knowledge on how uncontrollable and ignored distractions take effect
on the students.

Technology has been dominating this generation. From adults, teens, and even to kids,
people are now hooked with the social media phenomenon. Moreover, the teens that are most
engaged with social media are generally students. Yes, social media and internet has many
advantages to students when it comes to studying and learning, but sometimes teens have no
discipline on themselves in using this, causing them to neglect their studies and focus on their
Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking accounts. Nowadays, the internet and social
networking sites are the biggest distraction in studies. According to the online article Texting
lowers students grades, the activities that make the students studies most unprogressive were
surfing the internet, texting, listening to music and social networking (Collins, 2013). Social
media and texting (which is also a socializing method) eat a lot of time that instead of studying
their textbooks and focusing on studies, students check their social networking accounts and text
time by time. Also, a researcher, namely Anastasia Elder, conducted an experiment before
regarding the students texting during class. Elder therefore concluded that that the students who
use cellphones during lectures usually get lower grades than those who do not use. This only
proves that cellphones are really a disturbance in studying (Elder, 2013).

Social media has long been a form of entertainment for a large group of people. Including
college students, of course, most probably because its in the trend, and they are most likely to
become in the flow of this so called trend. Unknowingly, these media serves as a distraction. Say,
a student maybe in the class, but his attention could be elsewhere, thinking of what to tweet, or
actually tweeting about his thoughts during class discussions. There are a lot of unknown
distractions to students, and even though a lot are aware of it, the urge of actually solving such a
solution for it is still rampant. In this study, this research could help through the provision of
specific and founded information by giving the researchers ideas on how to come up with more
definitive answers.

MOVE 2
However, the studies stated above did not concentrate on how students actually study and
deal with distractions, which is why the researchers have come up with the decision to focus on
how students deal with distractions in college and look through their study habits. The aim of
this study is to help the students, especially the BSA and BSM Students, to identify their own
distractions on studying and will help them lessen those distractions that may lead to
improvement of their grades. Also, this study will be able to help professors to avoid activities
that have distractions to improve the learning capacity of the students. Parents and guardians
may also identify different distractions that their child is exposed to and prevent them from it.
Lastly, this study could also help the future researchers, as their reference, which their topic is inline with this papers.

MOVE 3
The researchers have assumed that there are a lot of stereotyping going on about the
distractions college students have, which include; vices, computer addiction, and social media.
And a lot of generalizing about the student's passing of their subjects is either because of
professor-student relationship, natural hard work, or just plain luck. The researchers want to

break the usual notion about college distractions and their study habits, and dig deeper on what
could be the reason behind failing marks are, and how students try to keep up just to pass their
subjects in order to get their degrees. The researchers believe that through the course of this
study, common distractions and study habits will be redefined and given more emphasis, and
unnamed complications and methods of studying will be put into existence bare in the
knowledge of students, and professors even. The benefits it will bring are the cautions the result
will show for the students to be aware of what the distractions are, so that they might abstain. As
soon as the research results are found, new methods to be used for academic efficiency will be
shown for students to be more inspired, and know practical steps to pass their subjects, perhaps
with difficulty but with confidence, and to know the thin difference between the lame, overrated
study habits, and the simple yet applicable forms of study habits to be used to achieve their
desired subject marks at the end of every semester.

This study aims to determine the most common study methods/approaches towards study
habits of sophomore students from the Accountancy Department. Also, this study attempts to
address how sophomore students from the said department handle pressure, as well as other
unavoidable study distractions.