A CORRELATIONAL STUDY ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND STUDY HABITS OF STUDENTSOF ODISHA ADARSHA VIDYALAYA

Author: Kalpalata Raj, Research Scholar & Prof.(Dr.) Manoj Kumar Pradhan

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ABSTRACT: The students having good study habits perform better in academic field than the students with the poor study habits. The researcher has conducted a fresh study on academic achievement and its correlation to study habits of students of newly established CBSE pattern school (OAV-Odisha AdarshaVidyalaya) from standard 6th to 12th by Government of Odisha.The study entitled as “A Correlational Study on Academic Achievement and Study Habits of Students of Odisha AdarshaVidyalaya”. Descriptive Survey method was employed for the study. The data was collected from 179 students of standard VIII of four Odisha Adarsha Vidyalayas of Keonjhar district of Odisha who were present on that day were selected as the sample. A manual for Study Habit Scale which includes the dimensions like use of e-resource, mobile,internet was constructed by Dimpal Rani and Dr. M.L. Jaidka 2005 was employed for data collection on study habits and from school examination result record, the average of two summative test scores was taken for collection of data for academic achievement. The boys and girls,tribal and non-tribal students have similar level of academic achievementand tostudy habits.There was a positive and substantial or moderate or marked-correlation of (r = 0.60) was found in academic achievement in relation to study habits.  It is recommended that the techno-sound study habits are to be adopted by the students for creating twenty first century learners for global citizenship.