ASSESSING THE INFLUENCE OF STUDY HABIT AND ATTITUDE ON COMPUTER EDUCATION TEACHER TRAINEES’ ACHIEVEMENT IN ELECTRONIC SPREADSHEET

J OWOLABI

ASSESSING THE INFLUENCE OF STUDY HABIT AND ATTITUDE ON COMPUTER EDUCATION TEACHER TRAINEES’ ACHIEVEMENT IN ELECTRONIC SPREADSHEET

J OWOLABI

Abstract

This study sought to determine the influence of study habits and attitudes on academic achievement. The study adopted an expost facto (non-experimental) research design. The target population of the study consisted of all the Computer Science Education Teacher Trainees in tertiary institutions in Lagos State where Microsoft Excel is offered as a course. 87 students of Federal College of Education (Technical), Akoka were purposively sampled for the study based on the following criteria: (i) they are computer science students of the college; (ii) they have been taught Microsoft excel as a course; (iii) they are available and willing to participate in the study. The instrument used for the study comprised of three sections A,B and C as follows: Section A sought personal information from the respondents. These include: sex, session, course combination and age. Sections B and C were study habits and attitude scales. The reliability was also determine using Cronbach Alpha with the aid of statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 21.0. It was found to be 0.7 which makes it reliable and fit for the study. Descriptive statistics such as frequency, simple percentage, mean and standard deviation were used. Correlation and Regression analysis were the inferential statistics used for the analysis. The findings of the study showed that while course of study, session and attitude related significantly with academic achievement, only course of study related significant and had significant influence on the academic achievement of the students. It was recommended among other things that Lecturers should encourage the students to inculcate positive attitude towards their study.

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