Study Habits of Senior High School Humss Learners: Its Effect to Academic

Performance

A Research Proposal

Presented to the Education Department of Philippine Electronics and

Communication Institute of Technology

Imadejas Subdivision, Butuan City

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Subject Research in

Education 1- Quantitative Research

Elaine Grace Shela C. Pancho

Theresa Faye O. Oliquino

Shana Mae M. Perez

Janrea J. Paciencia

Charina C. Matelos

Ivy D. Navarro

Rina U. Millan
 Chapter 1

THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING

Introduction

Study habits are an important part of the learning process. It is an action that

students regularly and habitually carry out to complete the task of learning.

Examples include reading, taking notes, and holding study sessions. Study habits

have declined in importance for our young adolescents, which is complicating their

ability to manage their classes and grades. It is not easy to deal with because

distractions like gadgets, social media, television, and others will be the hurdle to

studying. Many students struggle and cram during exams, which negatively affects

their academic performance. Thus, researchers have utilized a variety of personality,

attitudinal, cognitive styles, and ability measurements to understand how pupils differ

in how they process, retain, and retrieve learning material from senior high school at

the Philippine Electronics and Communication Institute of Technology.

There are various things that have an indirect impact on how a student

applies their study habits. The practices used to increase a student's productivity,

efficiency, and retention in preparation for a specific evaluation is known as study

habits. It should be viewed as the third pillar of academic achievement since it

makes academic performance predictions more accurate than any other non-

cognitive individual difference variable that has been studied thus far. Study habits

are primarily external variables that aid in the learning process, such as good study

routines that include how frequently a student attends study sessions, reviews the

content, does a self-evaluation, explains the topic, and studies in a comfortable

them reach their educational objectives.

A globally as college is fast approaching to the K to 12 students they tend to

create a new way of studying implying more effort on it. Study habits are not only

important but it is a necessity on a global scale, some countries such as the United

Kingdom and the United States have conducted studies. (The Heritage Foundation &

Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2017) One could argue that these habits are not needed

if you listen well enough but by developing effective study habits it helps the students

prepare for what they're about to go through in advance. Good study habits can

increase your confidence, competence, self-esteem & they can also reduce anxiety

about tests and deadlines. You may be able to cut down on the numbers of hours

spend studying, leaving more time for other things in your life. (Student Wellness

Center, 2017).

Here in the Philippines, students tend to rely on the internet and their mobile

phones for the answers to their academic problems. Forgetting the significance of

libraries and newspapers Lazy enough to just lie in bed and read what they have on

their phones. Here, the use of having books and handouts is useless. Often times,

the source of knowledge for the students comes from technology. Instead of having

a reading period using books, handouts, and notes, they tend to just scroll up and

down on their cellphones and laptops for slides and Facebook. Unlike before,

students tend to take notes, go to libraries for research, read the newspapers for

updates and listen to the radio for the news. Yet now, technology has taken over our

generation. Study habits have become less of a priority for our young teenagers,

causing conflict in coping with their lessons and grades. Compared to comparing it

nationally, there are only a few differences between national and local problems.
 Nowadays, study habits among students are depleting because there are so

many distractions for them, like the internet, television, their surroundings, and the

attitude of their parents. The most important requisite for effective study habits is a

good system of study; the individual should evolve two fundamental abilities, namely,

self-regulation of work and persistence till the end. In the modern age of completion

and perfection, every human being strives for success. Success is only possible if

students have good study habits. If students develop good study habits, it works like

that conductor who drags them from darkness, misery, and illiteracy and makes

them good quality beings who contribute to the growth of themselves, society in

particular and the nation in general. Good study habits are needed to acquire the

right education, and such education fully develops the personality of an individual by

making him intelligent, learned, bold, courageous, strong and good in character. Not

only an individual but also society as a whole is immensely benefited by the choice

of attainment through education. Moreover, the themes of 21st Century Human

Society are "Development and Achievement" as we are living in the age of science

and technology. Nations all over the globe are engaged in developing their

resources, and those which have already developed to the maximum extent are still

working to achieve new milestones.

The purpose of this study is to enlighten and to inform the students the

importance of study habits. This study will benefit the senior high school students to

be aware and to help them in maintaining and in finding the effective study habit they

must have. The researches provide them new information and solve future

researchers’ ideas from the given experience. Thus, may it help students to see the

mentality they have in saying “Studying is easy” and how the researchers tend to
provide reasons for them to acknowledge a new study habit and what study habits

really is.

Framework of the study

Theoretical Framework

This study is anchored on the Interest-driven creator (IDC) theory is a design

theory that intends to inform the design of future education in Asia. It consists of

three anchored concepts, namely, interest, creation, and habit. This paper presents

the third anchored concept habit as well as the habit loop. IDC theory assumes that

learners, when driven by interest, can be engaged in knowledge creation.

Furthermore, by repeating such process in their daily learning routines, learners will

form interest-driven creation habits. The habit loop, the process of building such a

habit, consists of three component concepts--cuing environment, routine, and

harmony. The cuing environment is a habit trigger that tells the students' brain to get

prepared and go into an automatic mode, letting a learning behavior unfolds. Routine

refers to the behavioral patterns the students repeat most often, literally etched into

their neural pathways. Harmony refers to the affective outcome of the routine activity

as well as the integration or stabilization of habits; that is, through the routine

behavior and action, students may feel that their needs get fulfilled, feel satisfied,

and experience inner peace. It is our hope that such habitual behavior of creating

knowledge can be sustained so long that students ultimately become lifelong

interest-driven creators. This paper focuses on the description of the three

components of the habit loop and discusses how these components are related to

the interest loop and the creation loop in supporting learners in developing their

interest-driven creation capability.

colleagues (Chan et al., 2018) propose a bold philosophy and approach to address

this challenge in Asia. Three primary ideas anchor their re-thinking of learning

activities: interest, creativity, and habit. Their articulation of these ideas pulls together

ideas from many literatures in integrative ways that are rare in scholarly work and yet

entirely practical

In the design of learning activities in IDC theory, the first consideration is the

nurturing of interests. When learning becomes interesting for students, they will

focus their attention on learning, spend time and energy, make effort without feeling

that they are making effort, enjoy learning, and, consequently, excel in learning

performance. Despite that, creation is the actual learning process. This means that

students will intend to create something worth sharing with their peers, feel a sense

of achievement, and take pride in the creation. Whether we can make a learning

process a creation process as well as nurturing the interest of students, depends,

however, on how we design the learning activities.

Their words tied this theory that study habits techniques clearly imply some

sort of priority for certain aspects of learning process. The emphasis on memorizing

reveals this quite clearly. Many university academics would want to say that

memorizing this is probably a fairly minor part of learning. To cite some recent work

on adult learning and to refer back to the section above, it seems more important to

focus on the deep principles behind specific assessment tasks and not the surface

requirements of individual items. These deep principles can deliver a sounder

understanding and skills which can be transferred from specific context to new

learning situations.
 Conceptual Framework

Independent Variable Dependent Variable

Study Habits Academic Performance

Statement of the Problem

This study is conducted to determine the study habits of Senior High School

Humss Learners in Philippine Electronics and Communication Institute of

Technology, first semester, SY 2022-2023. Specifically, this study sought to answer

the following questions:

1. What the demographic profile of the respondents in terms of the following:

1.1 Age,

1.2 Sex; and

1.3 Grade level?

2. What is the level of respondents’ perception on study habits?

2.1 Time Management,

2.2 Concentration and Memory,

2.3 Study Helps and Note Taking,

2.4 Test Strategies,

2.6 Motivation and Attitude,

2.7 Reading and Selecting Main Idea, and

2.8 Writing?

3. What is the level of academic performance of the Senior High School Learners?

4. Is there a significance difference between SHS in terms of the following?

4.1 Profile of SHS learners and study habits

4.2 Profile of SHS and academic performance

4.3 Study Habits and Academic Performance

Null Hypothesis

Based on the specific problem stated, the null hypotheses were hereby given:

Ho1: There is no significant difference between Senior high school and profile of

SHS learners, study habits and academic performance.

Scope and Limitations

This study focused on the study habits. The respondents of this study were the

Senior High School Humanities and Social Sciences student of Philippine Electronics

and Communication Institute of Technology, Butuan City who are enrolled during the

school year 2022-2023.

The goal of this study is to determine whether students have good study

habits or a lack thereof, and how that could or could not significantly affect students'

performance in class, resulting in good results (good grades) corresponding to the

students' study habits. This study will also examine the weight or significance of so-

called "study habits" and whether they are necessary habits for Senior high school

learners to have. The result of this study can be highly significant and beneficial,

especially to the following:

School Administrators and Principal. The result of this study will be concrete

evidence that acts as a feedback from students’ on study habits and improve, utilize,

and recognize different resources that are not just efficient but also effective in

showing progress that is surely beneficial to the institution.

SHS Teachers. This study will help the teachers by identifying the factors of how the

quality of studying matters and how it affects the students’ academic performance

and implement actions in order to treat the problem.

Students. This study will help the students recognize their habits in studying by

allowing themselves to really study not just for the sake of this research but by their

personal agenda to save their own academic performance.

Parents. The parents will have a huge role no matter what the conclusion in this

study is because they have the ability to recognize their children’s mannerisms in

studying and enable them to realize how significant having productive study habits is

for their children.

future research and researchers from the conclusive ideas and insights in this study,

and will open an undiscovered factor that will make this an effective reference for a

wider purpose.

Definition of terms

The following terms are defined as used operationally for the study:

Study habits. It essentially refers to the habits of senior high school humss learners,

the respondents of the research study, which is their daily routine with regards of

their academic duties and responsibilities affecting their academic performance.

Academic Performance – This term essentially refers to the academic grade of

senior high school humss learners, research respondents during the school year

2022-2023. This is based on the course project submitted by the learners; learner’s

classroom activity is a complex process that is influence by their study habits.