Study habits inventory

Check your Study habits Honestly
Concentration
COMPREHENSION समझ
TASK ORIENTATION,
Study Sets,
Interaction,
Drilling,
Supports,
Recording,
Study Habits Inventory by Dr B. V. Patel
Seven areas of study habits
Scoring & Interpretation
Good study habits
Bad study habits
Some of the Research findings on Study habits

1. Study Habits

2. Study habits Study habits are behaviors used when preparing for tests or learning academic material. ‘Study habits’ are generic rather than specific in terms of its importance . Good study habits include, class participation, study time, use of test book and recitation ( सस्वर पाठ ).

3. Check your Study habits Honestly Do not start unless asked to do so

4. Concentration Concentration is a very important predictor of effective study habits. Some students are capable of concentrating easily and for long whereas, some others take time to concentrate, but once they concentrate, they can continue for long, while still some others find it difficult to concentrate at all. Some may read only when they are in mood to do so. Others may require stimulations through tea, coffee, etc . for concentration.

5. COMPREHENSION समझ There are certain specific behaviours with respect to a student’s study behaviour which are geared to better comprehension. For example, before reading a lesson intensively the student may try to catch on what the lesson is about. By so doing, he may actually try to establish a mental set for studying a particular content. Similarly, he may try to relate the materials learned in one subject with those learned in another, so that he may subsume the new learning with the previous knowledge.

6. TASK ORIENTATION If a student who has to study a series of subjects and has to develop different levels of cognition, the task orientation is an important component of the study habits. For example, some students study different subject according to the fixed routine – daily, weekly or monthly . Certain students fix the time target for completing certain academic tasks. Students’ orientations and behaviours towards accomplishment of the tasks in a pre-decided time frame is task orientation.

7. Study Sets By study sets we mean the physical and situational characteristics which a student adopts for study. For example, some students read only in the night; some students learn more when they read lying on the bed, whereas some others may as well sleep if they read lying on the bed.

8. Interaction Although both teaching and learning in our colleges have remained convocation and almost the private affair of the particular teachers or students respectively, there is enough evidence to conclude that interaction of a student with his teachers or parents or his friends contributes positively towards better learning. Thus, interaction is a significant component of study habit. For example, when a student does not understand while studying, he may go to some of his friends for a discussion. Amongst the postgraduate students in certain universities, a common practice is to form small groups of three or four students who study together.

9. Drilling Drilling means practicing a particular learning again and again. While drilling is a common practice at school level, it is a very important component of good study habits amongst students of science and technology. Since drilling is almost essential in case of learning of Mathematics, Chemistry, Engineering, Drawing etc. These students may revise the topics and tasks already learned more than once.

10. Supports Study in any particular discipline gets a sound back-up from a broader study base. A student’s habit of studying different types of books, other than textbooks, or newspapers and magazines may be helpful in the learning of his subjects.

11. Recording At higher level any good teacher hardly teaches on the basis of a single book. For good performance of the students, it is also necessary to read a number of books; recording in the form of text, class notes or preparing one’s own study notes are, hence, very important factors. Some students prepare their independent study notes. Many students depends only on the class notes dictated by the teacher.

12. Study Habits Inventory By Dr. B. V. Patel , Principal & Professor, M. B. Patel College of Education, Sardar Patel University, Anand (Gujarat) NOTE: To change images on this slide, select a picture and delete it. Then click the Insert Picture icon in the placeholder to insert your own image.

13. Seven areas of study habits Home environment and planning of work Reading and note taking Planning of subject Habits of Concentration Preparation for examination General habits and attitudes School environment Five point scale Option Always Sometimes Never Often Hardly Good Habits 5 4 3 2 1 Bad Habits 1 2 3 4 5

14. Scoring & Interpretation

15. Scoring & Interpretation

16. For whom this inventory is prepared? Secondary School Students: In India, high school is a grade of education from Standards IX to X. Standards IX and X are also called Secondary School. Usually, students from ages 14 to 17 study in this section. These schools may be affiliated to national boards (like CBSE , ISC, and NIOS ) or various state boards. A school where there are standards 11 and 12 (XI and XII) is called Higher Secondary School. NOTE: No significant relationship is found between study habits and academic achievement of scheduled caste secondary school students.

17. Questions about How they study at home Whether they plan their work What time they devote to different subjects Why they devote different time to different subjects

18. Two types of study habits Good study habits Bad study habits

19. Recommended books on study habits Books on how to study A Practical Guide to Study Skills by Amy Himsel STUDY SKILLS: MANAGING YOUR LEARNING A Guide for Students in Higher Education by National University of Ireland Other Tests for the assessment of study habits: Study Habit Inventory (Developed by M. Mukhopadhyay and D.N. Sansanwal ) Test of Study Habits and Attitudes (T.S.H.A.) by Dr. Mathur , C.P . ( 2002 ). age 13 + It contains 60 items.

20. Some of Research findings on Study habits study habits and academic achievement of boys are significantly related. It can be interpreted that change in one variable affects significantly the other variable. There is no correlation between study habits and academic achievement of girls. girls have significant higher study habits than boys. Low achievement girls had better study habits than low achieving boys.

21. Reliability & Validity The reliability established by using test-retest method and split half method were found to be .79 and .82 respectively. The validity was established by using external criteria. Here scored on the study habits inventory were correlated with the teacher’s opinion and the examination marks. With the teacher’s opinion the coefficient of correlation was .40. the coefficient of examination marks was .50. Standardized tool was 430 students