REVISITING THE STUDY HABITS AND PERFORMANCE IN MATH OF GRADE 7 STUDENTS: A BASIS FOR A PROPOSED ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM
Keywords:
Study habits, math performanceAbstract
Students fail because they do not know how to study and the study habits of students 30 years ago still rings true today (Pogue, 2000). This descriptive study is aimed at revisiting and investigating the study habits and mathematics performance of 108 randomly selected Grade 7 students from the three public schools of the Municipality of San Manuel, Isabela, Philippines. It utilized questionnaire, observation and group interview as data-gathering instruments. To enrich the data, four teachers and 70 parents were also interviewed. Data were processed using frequency and percentage distributions, mean, standard deviation, One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and t-test, post-hoc analysis using Scheffe and effect size using eta square, and regression analysis. Findings revealed that students perceived study habits as a great factor in attaining excellent academic performance; however, teachers perceived students nowadays to have poor study habits. Meanwhile, parents opposed teachers’ perception affirm their children’s claim. Furthermore, students’ academic performance in mathematics is adequately explained by their study habits and mothers occupation. Consequently, the researcher proposed an enhancement program for the schools to adopt to improve students’ performance and study habits in mathematics.
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