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PERFORMANCE AMONG
ADOLECENTS: A SCHOOL
INDUCTION BASED STUDY
ABSTRACT
Study skills are discrete techniques that can be learned, usually in short
time and applied to all or most fields of study. They must therefore be
distinguished from strategies that are specific to a particular field of study
and from abilities inherent in the students, such as aspects of intelligence or
learning styles. study skills develops over time and with maturity as
students discover how they learn .study skills are often presented to
students from a very young age and are applied as they graduate to higher
classrooms levels and more challenging course work
INTRODUCTION
Study skill or study strategies are
approaches applied to learning. They are generally critical
to success in schools, considered essential for acquiring
good grades and useful for learning through ones life.
Most students fail in examinations simply because of the
lack of study skills or examination taking techniques.
Study skills are an array of skills
which tackle the process of organizing and taking new
information,
retaining
information,
dealing
with
assessment. They include mnemonics which aid in the
retention, effective reading concentration technique and
effective note taking.
OBJECTIVES
The present study study habits and academic
performance among adolescents: a school induction
based study was undertaken with the following
objectives.
To know the study habits of adolescent boys and
girls.
METHODOLOGY
TOOLS USED
Study skill questionnaire by
M.Kanchana (1986)
Scoring key
Answer key
DISCRIPTION OF MATERIAL
This questionnaire has 52
items on the aspects of study skills. It measures
ones organization of time, good setting, ability
to concentrate, learning methods and obstacles
of effective study. It has been formulated in
English. Reliability and validity have been
established. The response of each statement is
either yes or no. This questionnaire can be
administered in individual setting or group
setting.
SCORING
TABLE-1
GROUPING OF STATEMENTS
Sl.
No
AREA
STATEMENT
NUMBER
FROM
1-52
study method 1-32
TOTAL NUMBER
OF
STATEMENTS
32
In classroom
33-36
Home work
37-39
Regarding
examination
40-52
13
RESULT
The individual and group scores
tabulated in the following tables.
can
be
TOTAL SCORE
34
23
42
27
22
SEX
F
F
F
F
F
TOTAL SCORE
34
23
42
27
22
DISCUSSION
Study skill inventory is a
psychological test to detecting the learning
behavior and responses of the pupils. The
teacher and pupil actively participated in this
test.
This study was conducted in standard X11
including 5 student. Questionnaire carrying 52
questions which categorized in to four
schedules, in classroom, study method and
regarding examination. The test report of each
student is given below.
The first student was Neha . She is showing
good study habit. Her total score is 34. In her
study method she won 20 out of 32.Her study
method is good. In classroom she had obtained
only 1 mark out of 4. From that it is clear that
she had improve her classroom is take down the
CONCLUSION
Study skills are approaches applied
to learning. Study habits inventories have
successfully identified a provided for academic
achievement not accounted by ability.
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