Influence of students' and teachers' attitudes on adolescents' study habits in Secondary Schools in Educational District II of Lagos State

Abstract

This study investigated adolescents' characteristic features and teachers’ attributes and their influence on the study habits of  adolescents in Secondary Schools (SSS 11) in Lagos State. I H. The sample comprised two hundred (200) students which comprised sixty-nine (69) science-inclined, seventy-one (71) commercial-inclined and sixty (60) art-inclined students. The data were collected using the researcher-made questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential statistics were employed in the analyses of the data. The appropriate statistical tools used to test the generated hypotheses were Pearson Product Moment Correlation coefficient (PPMC) to establish the magnitude and direction of the relationship between the two variables in hypotheses one and two, and oneway ANOVA to compare the mean effects of the existing groups in the variable. The mean and the standard deviation were also determined. All hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Concerning teacher’s characteristics, the finding showed a calculated r-value of 0.45, which is positive and significant in magnitude than r-critical (r-crit. = 0.195). It indicated a positive relationship between teachers' characteristics and adolescents' study habits. For the students’ attitude, the calculated r-value of 0.36 is positively significant. It has further indicated a positive relationship between adolescents' attitudes and their study habits because both variables are correlated positively.

Keywords: Teacher Characteristics, Students' Attributes, Study Habits, Motivational Constructs, Learning Strategy, Metacognition