VARIABLES AFFECTING THE QUALITY OF THE STUDY HABITS OF 9TH GRADE LEARNERS IN SOCIAL STUDIES

Abstract

This study investigated the relationship between academic motivation, 21st-century study skills,
available materials for studying, time spend in studying, and teachers’ and parents’
encouragement to the learners to study to the level of the study habits of the 9th-grade
learners. A total of 351 grade 9 students enrolled in Aguinaldo J. Santos National High School,
Cambaog National High School and Dr. Pablito V. Mendoza Sr. High School served as the
respondents. The researcher developed the main gathering instruments employed in the
investigation and experts validated the content to measure the learners’ level of academic
motivation, 21st-century study skills, quality of time spends in studying, available materials for
study, parents’ encouragement to the learners to study and teachers’ encouragement to the
learners to study, overall mean, and correlation was utilized as statistical tests. It was found that
the respondents have a high level of academic motivation and 21st-century study skills. Also,
most of the respondents have time to study and adequate materials for studying, the
respondents also have a high level of parents’ and teachers’ encouragement to learn.
Meanwhile, there is no significant correlation between academic motivation, 21st-century study
skills, quality of time spend in studying and available learning support to the quality of study
habits. Among the 9 independent variables, only the parent's encouragement to the learners to
study showed a significant relationship to the quality of study habits. While the other 8
variables manifest no significant association.
Keywords: Study habit, Academic motivation, 21st century study skills, teacher’s
encouragement to the learners to learn, parent’ encouragement to the learners to learn,
available material for studying