CHAPTER I

THE PROBLEM

INTRODUCTION

Education is commonly referred to as the process of learning and obtaining

knowledge at school, in a form of formal education. Generally, at the start of a very

young age, children learn to develop and use their mental, moral and physical powers,

which they acquire through various types of education. The process of education does

not only start when a child first attend school. Education begins at home when the

parent started to give knowledge to the child. This will be followed up by the education

given by the teachers. In almost all societies, receiving an education in school is

extremely vital and necessary if a person wants to achieve success in life. Thus,

education is the key that allows people to move up in the world, seek better jobs, and

ultimately succeed fully in life.

In education, it involves study habits and this is the ways that you study; the

habits that you have formed during your school years. Study habits can be good ones,

or bad ones. Good study habits include being organized, keeping good notes, reading

your textbook, listening in class, and working every day. Bad study habits include

skipping class, not doing your work, watching TV or playing video games instead of

studying, and losing your work.

In fact, many of the Filipino school have also encountered this kind of problem

like the Christ the King College and Gingoog City High School, in a study of Mercado

(1999), the third year and fourth year students in that particular year of the study
revealed that the students did not have a fixed study time and had poor and improper

study habits. As well as the Regional Science High School (RSHS), Gusa, Cagayan de

Oro City in school year 2009-2010 experienced also the same problem because

according to the study of Victoria Tan (2010), “the RSHS has the summary of the

students that majority got 82 below in their minor subjects and 83-85 in their major

subjects. Highlighting text and memorizing are the most effective devices used for

reviewing. These devices are the effective instruments in studying lessons. Students

only study their lessons 1 hour a day. Almost half of the respondents nap after studying

their lessons. Therefore, that chatting, texting, on-line gaming, watching movies and

outing affect the study habits of probies in Regional Science High School”. This study

shows the problem regarding study habits of the mentioned school and it’s not only the

problem of the high school but also to the elementary school in Sitio Baluarte, Lumbia,

Cagayan de Oro City. However, those are the problems of the mentioned school

considering their school location. When compared to the schools located at the rural

areas like the Baluarte Elementary School, they were in a place that social networking

and other technologies were not easily available or accessible. Thus, the factors

affecting the study habits between the school located at the rural and urban areas differ.

The topic was chosen based on the concern raised by the school regarding the poor

study habit of the students in Baluarte Elementary School. The researchers had chosen

the grade V and grade VI students as the respondents for the reason that they are

ahead, mature, and responsible students among the six grade level. The grade V and

grade VI students already managed their study habits so in this case, if ever they need

an improvement they can probably develop it through the findings of this research
study. Upon the raised problem of the school, the researchers pursued this concern to

let the school know about what are the factors that really affect the students’ poor study

habit when grouped according to their time management, learning techniques, and

study skills.

As a result, the elementary school happened to experience the decreasing number of

students every now and then for the reason that the students were not eager to study

even at home or at their school. Even the teachers had already observed the

decreasing number of scores that their students got every quizzes and the increasing

number of absentee. According to the Principal, Mr. Legaspi, he stated that “these

problems are commonly happened every now and then; the teachers have observed

that it was the problem of student’s study habits that resulted to their decreasing

number of scores especially on their major subjects”. That was the problem that the

school now was facing. In sum, this study also helps us to analyze some

recommendations that will benefit for that certain concern.

Therefore, it has always been the presumption of many educators that students will

eventually develop good study habit as they grow and become more experienced in

school. But this is only partly true. It has been observed that not all students develop

effective study habits and learning strategies unless there is someone who will help

them.
 CHAPTER II

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

This chapter presented the aims at providing a strong foundation to this study

and literature or references gathered by the researchers that were anchored on. It

covers a review of existing relevant literatures which was explained according to its

concern. Such are presented as to connect the varied findings and theories in relation to

the independent and dependent variables.

Conceptual Literature

Study habit is the daily routine of students with regards to their academic duties

and responsibilities. Each student has his own study habits varying on his preferences

with the place and time of studying, techniques in studying and more. It will depend

upon the person if he will not get bored to browse notes and can procrastinate

(postpone doing something) the distractions such as social networking, media

exposure, gaming addiction and more. Studying not only prepares a student to excel in

a class but reinforces the lessons already taught. Studying reawakens the lectures and

reading materials. Studying is merely reviewing and committing to memory new

information. The extent of student's learning in academics may be on the grades a

student earns for a period of learning has been done. It is believed that a grade is a

primary indicator of such learning. If a learner earns high grades it is concluded that

they may also have learned a lot while low grades indicates lesser learning. However,

the one who facilitated the learning process should be the teacher and the teacher will

also help in understanding better the diversity of learning of their students. As such, it is
hoped that they could develop more effective methodologies in teaching their subject

matter especially in elementary level.

Elementary school is such an exciting and wonderful time for students and their

parents. This is the first real step to their education and their independence, but the

problem that the parents faced along these levels of learning were the ways on how

they’re going to let their children develop a study habit which can help their children in

learning as well. The parents let their children follow the rules in the house and let them

have their study habits in studying their lessons even a few hours, but the students must

study their lessons regularly.

Me Comb et al (1990) suggested that students learning achievement depends on

their attitude, motivation performance for success, and study habit or skills that people

employ to pursue the desire outcome. Moreover, there were some factors like the

parental involvement, socio-economic status of the learner, and teacher’s personality or

approach to students that can affect the learning and as well as their study habits. It has

a big factor of a student’s learning the involvement of their parents in their learning

process. Whenever the parents get involved in the study-life of their children, there was

a great factor that urges the child to learn and be interested in schooling. In this way the

child will feel supported in any way as much as he can do for his studying. If the parents

will always be there to urge their children in their study habit, then the child will respond

to it positively. Thus, having the parents’ child always on their side will have the

tendency for a child to always lean onto their parents every time and not standing

anymore on their own. So, the advantages and the disadvantages of this factor

revealed.
 Furthermore, the socio-economic status can also affect the study habit of the

learner. In fact, this factor places a big challenge to the learners because this shows

their social stratification whether they belong to the upper, middle, or lower class. It can

affect to their study habits for some time they can’t continue their studying because take

this example, if they don’t have an electricity in their place, they can’t study their lessons

especially during night time, so it really hinders to their learning. Another thing is

financial, when this aspect will be opened, everyone felt down. They will come to think

to a point that because of this financial problem they can’t continue to buy the

necessary things needed for school and so there were no reason for them to study

since they don’t have the materials to be used. In this case, the level of their interest in

learning decreases.

According to the Principles of Teaching 1 book, the teacher serves as the

primary mover of the educational wheel while the learners are the key participants in the

learning process. The teacher is the role model, the manager, the counsellor, leader,

parent surrogate, facilitator, instructor, and a lot more. The students will learn best also

depends on the kind of teacher do they have. The teacher has the greatest factor in the

learning process and so his attitudes or personality in approaching the students affect

on them as well.

In addition, Bakare (1975) opines that intelligence accounts for little variance in

academic performance. Therefore, more emphasis had shifted from intellectual factors

to non – intellectual factors such as some personality variables like self concept and

study habit.
 Based on the findings of Othis (1995), effective study skills usually come down to

two factors: motivation and style.

Motivation is the enthusiasm of a person to do something. Learning style is the

method used by a certain student/person to study much easier and more efficiently.

These two factors also have a role to play in the learning process of a student.

Motivation serves as the fuel that keeps the child moving on their studying and learning

process. Because of this, aside from gaining incentives, they also gain knowledge.

While the learning styles of the student will also help him upon learning for it gives him a

reason to learn the things in the way he will learn. There will be no pressure for a child

to understand things if only he will learn everything through the way he wanted to, for

instance, if the student is a visual learner, then he can study the lesson through seeing

it with the eyes or watching videos that contained related topics to the lesson presented.

If a student is an audio learner he can learn his lesson through listening to it attentively

or let the other person discuss to him the topic or lesson talked about by the teacher.

Lastly, if a student is a kinaesthetic learner, he can learn his lessons through doing it on

his own for example in a laboratory session. Hence, learning skills refer to the skills that

make learning possible.

Generally, learning is central to all our behaviour. Each learner is unique

individual with different abilities, interests, and ways of thinking and responding thus

these characteristics have a significant influence on ones learning style (Figueroa,

2008-2009). It is being realized that students use different learning strategies. They

have different methods of reading, interpreting and coding the information. Sometimes
these strategies are useful, but some students develop pathological learning strategies.

To study effectively the students should be aware of learning process. Nonetheless,

success in school is not so much determined by sheer intelligence as knowing how to

study. Studying is a skill. Being successful in school requires a high level of study skills

and students must first learn these skills, practice them and develop effective study

habits in order to be successful.

Everyone cannot be brilliant but everyone can learn how to study. Effective study

habits, even highly intelligent student failed due to inefficient work and lack of

knowledge on how to study effectively. Important skills for study have to be learned

and practiced.

As a matter of fact, students who work to a more regular program of study have a

better academic performance. Study habits tend to be formed in the early grades and in

the most instances, do not materially improve after elementary school. Some students

often complain about mental inability or strain or lack of interest in studies. Other thinks

they are not capable.

In some cases, Fielden (2004) stated that good study habits help the student in

critical reflection in skills outcomes such as selecting, analyzing, critiquing, and

synthesizing. While in the study of Nneji (2002) he added that study habits are learning

tendencies that enable students work privately. The study conducted by Hope L.

Graven (2008) on the relationship between an individual's amount of caffeine

consumption during his/her study session and the individual's study habits showed that

the main effect of drinking caffeine on exam preparation was not significant. Unhealthy

study habits were operationally defined as low scores on amount of time per study
session, time (in days) when preparation began, and amount of information the

participants believed they had retained. High scores on anxiety level were included in

'unhealthy' study habits. A Pearson correlation indicated no relationship between

amount of caffeine consumed while studying and the individual's effectiveness of

studying and preparation.

While in Dumayag’s (2009) point of view, “the effective study skills are

associated with positive outcomes across multiple academic content areas and for

diverse learners. This is to describe an information-processing perspective on the

contribution of study skills to academic competence, and to identify evidence-based

strategies that are effective in helping students to improve their study skills. Study habit,

skill, and attitude inventories and constructs were found to rival standardized tests and

previous grades as predictors of academic performance, yielding substantial

incremental validity in predicting academic performance. Academic specific anxiety was

found to be an important negative predictor of performance. Overall, study habit and

skill measures improve prediction of academic performance, more than any other non

cognitive individual difference variable examined to date and should be regarded as the

third pillar of academic success”. The substantive aim of the study was to examine the

effect of study habit on students.

In fact, the website in how-to-study.com (2009) recommended some tips in

improving study habits and suggested that the student should try not to study all the

subjects in just a period. It also added that if you try to do too much studying at one

time, you will tire and your studying will not be very effective. Space the work you have

to do over shorter periods of time. Taking short breaks will restore your mental energy.
 Additionally, Mark E. Thompson (2005) undoubtedly affirmed to Mark Crilly’s

(2000) study that other students are able to balance social activities with good study

habits. A diversion from studies will alleviate stress and help prevent from becoming

fatigued. He said that a student should make sure that he must take a break for an hour

after studies to meet with friends, to play some cards, work out at the gym, or to gab

with a new acquaintance. For this way, that student will find concentration when he

does study, if he plans a social activity afterwards. He said, “To develop a healthy social

life, develop routine study habits. After supper, lug your books and homework to the

library, find a comfortable and quiet niche, and study for two or three hours, taking

intermittent 10 minute breaks every 45 minutes or so.” Making friends with whom you

share similar study habits, and share a table or a study space with them would be a

best way in developing study habits as what Mark said.

To give a clearer view of each of the variables in this study, here are the

following discussions:

Study habit

S. Edwards (2006) said that learning to study is like learning to ride a bike-once

you get it you have the skills for life. Meaning that in steps to learning there are bumps

and bruises along the way because the process of learning is sometimes painful. In

addition to that learners who excel in school is not an exemption in creating a good

study habit because learning is a lifetime process, it does not stop. Moreover study

habit is important to all learners to perform well in school.

There are many factors to be considered in discussing the reasons behind the

formed study habit of the learners especially in the adolescent period. This is the stage
where critical period begin when they wanted to go out under the custody of their

parents. In such it is important to consider the parental involvement of the parents and

its influence to the learners. The family monthly income is also one factor to be

considered because now a day there is no such thing as free. This means that you don’t

get something without anything or without money. In addition, it doesn’t mean that

students that are enrolled in a public school are absolutely free from any expenses.

Aside from the projects and assignment it cannot be missed at school that there are

biological needs of a man to be feed. In one way or another, everybody will spend an

ample amount for the desired learning. Learners’ academic performance must be

considered also because it is interrelated to students’ study habit. However, one of the

important considerations is the attitude of students towards studies and these factors

serve as a stimulus in motivating them to do certain responses depending on how they

perceive the actions of the mentioned factors. The development of positive attitude

towards studies must be considered seriously by both parents and teachers. Their

actions are important in motivating the learners’ performance towards their study habit.

Time Management

Time management can be also the factor that can affect the study habit of the

student for the reason that a one’s study habit is also connected with how a student

manage his time in accordance to its desired study time. Time management has been

described using many different terms including spontaneity, balance, flexibility, and

having control over time (Lakein, 1973). Time management has also been characterized

as a habit developed only through determination and practice (Simpson,1978), as

prioritizing and respecting those priorities, setting priorities and scheduling tasks
(Jordan et al., 1989). Time management can also be considered as the process, by

which an individual is more effectively accomplishes tasks and goals (Schuler,1979), a

process by which an individual obtains control over the timing and the content of what

he/she does and as what can be accomplished with time (Onacken & Wass, 1985). In

order to utilize time effectively, individuals must first be able to predict or plan how much

time is needed for the activity (Kelly, 2002). An individual will become effective in using

their time only when the individual clearly knows what they want to do, what they need

to do, and for which specific target date (Soucie, 1986). Individuals need to become

more disciplined in their use of time by respecting their established priorities while

minimizing distractions from others as well as from situations that have the ability to

displace priorities in terms of time and energy (Soucie, 1986).

According to Crutsinger (1994), time management involves determining what one

should do by setting goals, deciding which events are the most important and realizing

that other activities will have to be scheduled around them (prioritizing), making

decisions about how much time to allow for certain tasks (time estimation), adjusting to

the unexpected (problem solving), reconsidering goals and priorities on a regular basis

(evaluation), and observing patterns and trends in behavior. Manages your time can

help you study your lesson in a desired time and doing it every time can be a habit for

everyone’s study habit.

Study Techniques

Study techniques can help an individual to study and form his study habit. Study

techniques are how someone studies in a way that he wants to remember what he has
studying. They are generally critical to success in school considering the essential for

acquiring good grades, and useful for learning throughout one's life. There are an array

of study skills, which may tackle the process of organizing and taking in new

information, retaining information, or dealing with assessments. Study techniques

include mnemonics, which aid the retention of lists of information, effective reading and

concentration techniques, as well as efficient note taking (http://www.usq.edu.au).

Learning Styles

The Learning style of a student contributes to its study habit formation because

there are factors that their learning styles influences their way of studying. Different

theorists and educationists have defined learning styles in their own way. They believe

that this is an important concept to be studied. The concept of style helps to understand

how the learners are same with each other, and how they differ in terms of learning.

There are three basic types of learning styles, the three most common are visual,

auditory, and kinesthetic. To learn, we depend on our senses to process the information

around us. Most people tend to use one of their senses more than the others. However,

Some theorists or practitioners explained that the learning styles show how one

particular individual will react to a specific situation and how he or she will behave in a

unique or common learning situation depends on his/her learning style. This leads to a

different interaction with the same learning environment by different people and it is a

matter of their learning style, (Gordon 1998). Thus, learning styles are taken as stable

individual preferences for receiving and processing information by many of the theorists.

Learning styles are the different approaches and ways of learning. First, the

Visual Learners, they learn through seeing. These learners need to see the teacher's
body language and facial expression to fully understand the content of a lesson. They

tend to prefer sitting at the front of the classroom to avoid visual obstructions (e.g.

people's heads). They may think in pictures and learn best from visual displays

including: diagrams, illustrated text books, overhead transparencies, videos, flipcharts

and hand-outs. During a lecture or classroom discussion, visual learners often prefer to

take detailed notes to absorb the information. Second, the Auditory Learner, they learn

through listening. They learn best through verbal lectures, discussions, talking things

through and listening to what others have to say. Auditory learners interpret the

underlying meanings of speech through listening to tone of voice, pitch, speed and other

nuances. Written information may have little meaning until it is heard. These learners

often benefit from reading text aloud and using a tape recorder. Lastly, the Tactile or the

Kinesthetic Learners, they learn through moving, doing and touching. Tactile/Kinesthetic

persons learn best through a hands-on approach, actively exploring the physical world

around them. They may find it hard to sit still for long periods and may become

distracted by their need for activity and exploration.

Parental Involvement

Parental involvement is needed in adolescent stage in monitoring the

performance of their students at school and in home. Parental involvement is the

number one reason of the student’s motivation and if student will see that their parents

pay less attention in their academic performance a usual response of the student is an

attitude of procrastination. According to the 1st stage of Erik Erikson’s theory the

parents are the basic source or foundation of trust an individual can create to his/her
environment. Parent involvement in school is needed because according to the study of

Chavkin et.al. (1993) that parent involvement – or school and family connections – is a

component of effective schools that deserves special consideration because it

contributes to successful family environments and more successful students. In addition

parental involvement are the stimuli that serves so as student will avoid procrastination

and contributes to efficient time management, learning skills and study techniques of

the students. Parental monitoring is needed so that student will feel that they need to do

their best because their parents put a great value in their studies. Furthermore it is the

best influence of the parents to their students to give their best in their studies.

Family Monthly Income

Socio-economic status as define by Riegelman Richard (2009) is the family

income, educational level or parents’ educational level and professional status or

parents’ professional status. In this study, it focuses mainly on the family monthly

income of the parents or the other children of the family. This is fact that in our society,

to observe the difference well off family and to which is not. It is also believed that a

student’s interest in studies and academic performance are also affected by the family’s

socio-economic status like the income that the family is consuming in a day, month or

year, (Eun Chul Seo 1999). In terms of the school projects and assignment, students

need to spend ample amount on the materials needed like paper, ball pen etc. these

things cannot be acquired without money. In addition, the moment they saw the

financial capability of their parents to provide chances, then the students will be

encourage in doing the task. Furthermore, adolescents’ attitude wants to get in what is
new in order to be accepted by their peers. The student’s socio-economic status trigger

certain behaviour in response to the situation, thus result to students’ poor study habit.

Academic Performance

Student’s previous academic performance will also contribute motivation to their

study habit if they got high scores in their previous grades consequently they will exert

more effort to give their best. Although it doesn’t mean that those low performing

students don’t have a goal to achieve. Based on the academic performance of the

student you can clearly identify if their study habit is good or bad. Student’s previous

academic performance serves also as stimuli to students study habit.

Teacher’s Personality

Personality factor of values and feelings according to the study of Natalie

Rasmussen (2006) is concerned with the affective domain that includes maintaining a

positive attitude, believing one has control over what happens to oneself in school, and

effectively managing stress and anxiety. This factor is important in the part of the

teacher since teachers are the second parent of the students in school. In such

maintaining a positive attitude will become a motivation to the students to learn well.

Furthermore the statement believing one has control over what will be going to happen

means that the teacher can influence the behaviour of their student and thus result into

a positive response that will not cause stress and anxiety to everyone. Teachers are

influencing factor to students study habit through motivation and encouragement.

 The study focuses on the factors that affect the study habit of the students. In line

with this, the researchers would like to know the effect of the study habit to their

academic performances.

Skills or study strategies are approaches applied to learning. Human beings

constantly in one learning process after the other and it is therefore important to be

understand that what might work for others do not necessarily have to work for others

as well. However, it is still important that students should be consistent along with their

studies. According to the theories of study habits, there are broadly two types of

students. The first category is of the students who study for a shorter duration, have a

good concentration and are able to get good scores without much effort. The second

category includes students who have a rather poor concentration, and need a lot of hard

work to get good scores. With a regular study habit you will find that the child will study

at a time that it is deemed normal to study.

To conclude, study habits may vary from student to student perspective because

not everyone achieve the style of learning process like what other can achieve for their

selves. There may be a lot of factors that can affect the study habit of one student but

it’s all depend to him on how he can manage to do his studies without minding the

hindrances and acquire study habits in the end.

Research Literature

Synthesis

Conceptual Framework

Various researchers proved that there is a significant relationship between

students’ study habits towards their academic performance (Manchala, 2007). Whither

the study habit is systematic or unsystematic, efficient or otherwise there could always

be an impact to students’ academic performance. According to M.T.V. Nagaraju (2004)

that study habit serves as the vehicle of learning and poor study habits create anxiety in

the students. He also explained that if the students have a good study habit it make

them to have a good performance. However, behind this so called “study habit” either

good or bad there are factors or reasons behind of what kind of study habit the students

produce. This is a common concern among educators but they focused on the poor

study habit of the students, the cause of the students’ low academic performance.

The theoretical/conceptual framework of this study is anchored on the self-

determination theory by Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan because the learner

himself and the independent variables have a great role in shaping the learner’s study

habit. Self- determination is innate to an individual and together with the psychological

needs. This theory emphasizes on the individual’s motivation and how external factors

affects on the individual performance. The term motivation as stated in the study of

Rugesh Raghuwanshi (2008) is the result of processes, internal or external to the

individual, which will arouse enthusiasm and persistence to pursue a certain course of

action. Motivation is important in an individual to do once task and if one is not

motivated it is impossible to come up a good result. This motivation could be possible if

there is a positive stimulus that would bring out the positive behaviour in the life of the

learners. In such this paper put into consideration the social environment that nurtures

the learner’s inherent potentials.

In connection with the self-motivation theory, the following independent variables

were considered: the students’ profile in terms of their parental involvement family

monthly income, learning styles, academic performances and their teachers’

personality. These variables are because they are considered as the nurturing social

environment and in one way or other these may influence the study habit of the

students.

It is important to consider the study habits of the students on how they manage

their time efficiently, and how to have effective varied study techniques to keep them

afloat. These things are important for them to form a good study habit. These things are

important in order to understand how these students respond to the demands of

acquiring good grades as expected by parents and school authorities. In such the

cooperation of the parents and teachers are needed because they are going to take

another step in learning process which is the secondary level or high school. In addition

to that high school is the training ground for college if students started a poor study

habit they will probably have a hard time to cope up in college.

There are books written of some authors that will help students how to have an

effective study habit. According to T.G. Dawood (2006) that time management skills are

very important as it helps to increase students’ productivity. Moreover students learn to

prioritize important task and balance their time efficiently. Study techniques are methods
which involve the application of a group of techniques to achieve a process result (Vijay

Sheth 2005). In addition it is one way of realizing the best method of performing a task

which can be effective in studying. According to the research study of Eun Chun Seul

(1999) she quoted from Morgan and Deese (1973) that studying is really an all-out effort

and learning, and it is only practiced successfully when one really learns. It means that

studying takes a lot of time to practice, it involves sacrifices for leisure’s in order to

make it a habit. Furthermore no one can learn for you, learning is solely controlled by

the learner itself. In addition with this the secret of effective study is found in the

student’s firm determination and desire to learn. In addition students must have a

genuine interest to learn and desire to study in the best possible way.

Definition of Terms

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

This study aimed to determine the study habits among Grade IV pupils at St.

Bridget College.

This specifically sought to answer the following questions:

1. What are the study habits among Grade IV pupils in SBC? How often do they

practice it?

2. How do the following factors influence pupils good study habits relative to:

2.1 reading materials

2.2 household chores

2.3 social networks

2.4 teaching style

 3. What are the assessed results of good study habits in relation to reading skills of

pupils themselves?

4. What study habits plan may be proposed for Grade IV pupils?

Scope, Delimitation and Limitation of the Research

The study was conducted in St. Bridget College, Elementary Department during

school Year 2017-2018.

Specifically, this study concentrated on the different types of study habits, factors

that influence good study habits, possible results of good study habits in relation to

reading skills as assessed by the students and proposed study habits plan for Grade IV

pupils.

The study did not include the facilities of the school.

This study was limited only to 20 selected respondents composed of Grade IV

pupils in school.

Significance of the Study

The findings of this study would be useful and valuable as it will give insights to

the different groups of people such as school, administrators, teachers, parents,

students, future teachers and future researchers in planning for the best activities that

will greatly help in developing good study habits on every student.

To the Administrators, who are the policies making body of the school. Through

the findings of the study, they can provide inputs to revise modify and suggest some

activities wherein the different skills can be developed among the students.
 To the Teachers, the teachers are the facilitators of learning and the students

are the active participants of it and so both elements are needed for the learning

process to take place. And this study will provide them information to their concern

regarding the poor study habits of their students enrolled in Grade IV, St. Bridget

College. Through this study, they can think of a way on how they can increase the

interest of the students upon studying. They can also properly motivate and guide their

students toward acquiring good study habits, thus making the students perform well in

their academic responsibilities. In this way, the students hopefully will never gain

decreasing scores during their school performances but finally an increasing result.

To the Parents, one of the reasons why the students will attend their classes is

their parents’ motivation to them. In this study, the parents will be able to know their role

upon improving their children’s study habits which then can help their children in

attaining a perfect mark for their academic or curricular performances. They can also

support their children in developing and enhancing skills by showing and giving full

moral and financial support.

To the Students, the students will be given an idea to know more about their

selves and on how they are going to determine their study habits so they can improve it

for the better. The student themselves should know whatever is conceived to have great

contribution on the learning of the students. In this way, it is not just their study habits

will change but also to their school performances.

To the future Teachers, this study will provide some insights on how to carry out

their task, prepare and develop instructional materials when they are already in the field.
 To the Researchers, the findings of this study may provide them information

about the study habits in which they can possibly make use in real life situation. They

can also utilize the findings of this study for reference purposes as they conduct similar

investigation.

Furthermore, this study will not only give benefits to the following mentioned

above but also to the other factors that can affect each components of beneficiaries

which could be internally or externally.

PROPOSED INNOVATIONS AND PLANS

RESEARCH METHOD AND PROCEDURE

Research Design

Subject of the Study

Data Gathering Instrument

Data Gathering Procedure

Data Analysis plan

Statistical Treatment of Data

 QUESTIONAIRE

STUDY HABITS AMONG GRADE IV PUPILS AT ST. BRIDGET COLLEGE

Dear Respondents,

Good day!

Thank you for answering this survey questionnaire. Rest assured that the gathered

information will be treated with utmost confidentiality.

The researcher,

Ms. Hazel Liza Marie C. Hong

SBC Faculty

Name: (Optional) _____________________________________________________

Grade level: ________________

Part I - Types of Study Habits

Directions: Below are types of study habits. Please put a check mark ( ) in the

appropriate column that best describe using the following scale.

4 - Always

3 - Sometimes

2 - Seldom

1 - Never

Types of Study Habits 4 3 2 1

 1. I take notes properly during class

2. I take naps during class

3. I read books other than textbooks

4. I space out during class

5. I am outspoken during class

6. I focus well on what the teacher is saying

7. I proactively participate in group work

8. I finish homework on time

9. I prepare for classes beforehand and review what

I’ve learned

10. I proactively study without being told at home

Total
Part II- Factors Influencing Good Study Habits

Directions: The following are statements to be assessed regarding the factors

influencing good study habits. Please put a check mark ( ) in the appropriate column

that best describe using the following scale.

4 – To a Very Great Extent

3 – To a Great Extent

2 – To a Moderate Extent

1 – To a Least Extent

2.1 Reading Materials 4 3 2 1

1. Improves reading comprehension

2. Adds motivation in studying

3. Helps the learner in obtaining meaningful and

desirable knowledge

4. Helps to develop proper thinking method

5. Helps create new ideas

6. Develops creativity

7. Enhance imagination skills

2.2 Family Problems

1. Lessens students’ motivation

2. Affects emotional response

3. Insufficient support from the family members

 4. Decreases students’ concentration

5. Tends to be an attention seeker

6. Instils negativity in mind

2.3 Social Networks

1. Gives relevant information

2. Helps in doing homework

3. Provides leisure activities

4. Helps in communicating others

5. Distracts the attention in studying

6. Increases social awareness

2.4 Teaching Styles

1. Motivates students to improve learning

2. Engages students in different activities

3. Creates positive learning environment

4. Encourages students to participate actively in

class

5. Inspires them to do their assignment

6. Gives opportunity to think creatively

7. Allows the students to share ideas in

pair/group work

Total
Part III – Possible results of good study habits in relation to reading skills of

pupils themselves

Directions: The following are the possible results of good study habits in relation to your

reading skills. Please put a check mark ( ) in the appropriate column that best describe

using the following scale.

4 – To a Very Great Extent

3 – To a Great Extent

2 – To a Moderate Extent

1 – To a Least Extent

4 3 2 1

1. Have clear reading goals

2. Apply note taking techniques

3. Exhibit good reading speed and

comprehension

4. Show good performance in tests and

examinations

5. Obtain wider vocabulary

6. Use creativity and critical thinking

REFERENCES

STUDY HABITS OF THE GRADE-V AND GRADE-VI STUDENTS IN BALUARTE

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, SCHOOL YEAR 2012-2013,. Amora, Sharicka Anne

Veronica P.et.al.,March16,2013