Study Habits and Gender as a Determinant of Chemistry Performance among Senior SECONDARY School Students in Minna Metropolis, Niger State

Abstract

This study examined study habit as determinant of performance among the senior secondary school II chemistry students. Two research questions, and two hypotheses formulated and were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population for the study comprised of 3365 senior secondary school chemistry student 2019/2020 session within Minna metropolis, Niger State. A multi-stage sampling technique was employed, which were clustered into A & B with a sample size of 337. Four schools were randomly sampled for the study. Study Habit Inventory (SHI) was used for data collection in the study. A five-point Likert scale inventory of a Strongly Agreed (SA), Agreed (A), Undecided (UD), Disagreed and Strongly Disagreed (SD). The instrument was validated by expert in Guidance and Counseling from College of Education Minna, Niger State. The reliability was determine using Cronbach Alpha and reliability coefficient of 0.87 index was established. Data collected from the study were analyzed using descriptive (mean and standard deviation) to answer research questions and inferential statistics (Regression analysis and ANOVA) to test the formulated hypotheses. Findings from the study shows that study habit impacted positively on student academic performance in chemistry. And it was recommended that chemistry teachers should adopt measures to strengthen students good study habit by organizing reading session for each topic to boost their academic performance in chemistry.