Analysis of Study Skills Employed by Ghanaian High School Science Students

Autor/inn/en	Aboagye, Godwin Kwame; Amponsah, Kwaku Darko; Johnson, Eugene Adjei
Titel	Analysis of Study Skills Employed by Ghanaian High School Science Students
Quelle	In: Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 15 (2020) 4, S.634-650 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Aboagye, Godwin Kwame) ORCID (Amponsah, Kwaku Darko) ORCID (Johnson, Eugene Adjei)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1305-905X
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Study Skills; High School Students; Gender Differences; Learning Strategies; Academic Achievement; Adolescents; Memory; Time Management; Notetaking; Test Anxiety; Reading Comprehension; Student Motivation; Student Attitudes; Writing Skills; Cognitive Style; Ghana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Studientechnik; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Geschlechterkonflikt; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Schulleistung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Gedächtnis; Zeitmanagement; Examination phobia; Testangst; Prüfungsangst; Leseverstehen; Schulische Motivation; Schülerverhalten; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil
Abstract	This study was motivated by the desire to explore the study skills employed by science students in senior high schools (SHS) in the Cape Coast metropolis across the Central Region of Ghana. A total of 600 SHS second-year science students, 354 males, and 244 females, took part in the investigation. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey design. The "Study Skills Scale" questionnaire was utilised for data collection to determine the kind of study skills employed by the science students, across gender, age range, and school-type. The arithmetic mean was used to establish the degree to which students employ study skills strategies in their learning. Similarly, the consequence of gender, age range, and school-type on the eight subscales of study skills strategies was determined using a one-way multivariate examination of variance. Findings from the investigation indicated that SHS science learners employ study skills strategies in their learning to a large extent for all the subscales of study skills strategies. However, female students employ the memory and concentration study skills strategies more effectively than their male counterparts; demographic variables, such as age range and school-type, do not influence students' study skills significantly. The implications for this study for policy and practice were discussed. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01