Study Habits, Attitude and Achievement

The purpose of study was to investigate whether the Study Habits and Attitudes of low and high achievers as measured by questionnaire are related to academic performance of students. A Study Habits (Delay Avoidance, Work Method), and Attitude (Attitude towards Teacher and Attitude towards Education) questionnaire was used to collect data. The study concluded that the scores of students on categories Delay Avoidance, Work Method, Attitude towards Teacher and Attitude towards Education were significantly related with academic performance of students. A notable feature was that the girls had better study habits and more positive Study Attitude than boys and their academic performance was also better than boys. Similarly rural students had better Study Habits and more positive Study Attitude than urban students and their academic performance was also better than urban students.

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Dr. M. Sarwar, Principal Scientist, is going through 26 years of Service experience; has 250 publications in National & Foreign Journals; award of Higher Education Commission Pakistan's Post-Doctoral Scholarship-2006; awarded Gold Medal-2010 by Zoological Society; and granted Research Productivity Award-2011, by Council for Science and Technology.