STUDY HABIT INVENTORY

STUDY HABIT INVENTORY

INTRODUCTION

        Study habit is the habitual practices one used to help them study and them.  Good study habits can help students to  achieve and maintain good grades.  Study habit is the pattern o behavior adopted by students in the pursuit.  It  their  studies that serves as the vehicle of learning.  Study habit  typically denote the degree to which the students engaged in regular acts of studying.  There are characterized by appropriate studying routine occurring in an environment that is conclusive in studying.

          Study habit of every student is one of the most important factor that effect his or her understanding regarding a certain subjects.  It means if a student prossesses poor study habits she has a greater chance of getting failing grades. If compare to a student who has a good study habit.  Study habit is the way an individual or person study – this habit will have formed during our school years.  The manner with which we consistenly used to study  for school of colleges.  A study habit is buying out a dedicated scheduled and  interrupted time to apply one’s self to the task learning.  Without  it one does not grow and become self –limiting in life.  Study habit tell a person that  how much  he will learn and far he wants to grow and how much he wants  to earn.  The term study habit can be defined as the student’s way of study whether  systemic, efficient or inefficient.

GOOD STUDY HABITS

          How you approach studying maters:  aim to think positively when you study and remind yourself of our skills and abilities.

Avoids catastrophic thinking:  It is meant that we cannot do anything  or we can do that others are expecting from us.

Avoid compare ourselves with others

Where we study is most important make sure to choose the quite places.

Bring everything you need nothing you don’t

Outline and rewrite notes

Use memory games (mnemonic devices)

Practice the friends

Make a time table

Take breaks.  Don’t read or write without a time break

Keep healthy and balance

Know what are the expectation from the class

Get organized

Develop a study plan

  

AIM

·        To find out the study of 43 students in IX C  St. Mary’s  High School Pallipuram

·        To find out study habits of individual

TOOL

·        Study habit inventory developed and standardized by Dr.B.V. Patel

METHOD OF ADMINITRING

        Please give the  following instruction before distributing the study habit inventory to the group of students.

          This is not attest.  Therefore, there is no right or wrong answer of each item.  So the copying from your neighbour will not  help you in any way.  It will be in your interest to be honest in answering the items.  Your honest attempt will help you in becoming good in study.  It is one of the objectives to give you individual guidance to improve your study habits.  Hence be honest and free to answer the items.  Your answer will be kept secret it will not be communicated to others.

SCORING KEY

          The present study habit inventory consists of 45 statements,  Out of these 45 statements some of them depict good study habit while some of them depict.  Poor study habit.  Therefore it is important to understand the  scheme of making the inventory.

CONCLUSION

          Psychological test conducted in 41 students in class IX C St. Mary’s High School Palliport with the tool developed by Dr. B.V. Patel study habit inventory helps the students to understand  what are their study habit and in which section the individuals were weak and good and how to overcome from these weakness with good guidance.  Most of the students have very poor study habits, but they accepted to change their study habits and weakness.