The disposition of distance learners towards success in their first university examinations at the winneba study centre of university of education, Winneba, Ghana.

Abstract

The study was carried out to find out the disposition of 2006 level 100 distance education students of the Winneba Study Centre towards success in their first university examination. In all 100 students responded to items in a questionnaire. The results indicated that few days before the examination respondents had occasional memory loss and the phenomenon of forgetting easily (mean of 1.55). Also, the night before their first paper respondents had about six hours’ sleep (mean of 2.11). In the course of writing the papers respondents read over the instructions thoroughly and carefully before attempting to answer the questions (mean of 2.88). In many cases the differences between the observed and expected frequencies were very highly significant.

KEY WORDS: Disposition, anxiety, stress, Winneba, examination, centre.