ATTITUDES AND STUDY HABITS OF GRADE

VI PUPILS AS CORRLATES TO THEIR

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN SCIENCE
 I. CONTEXT AND RATIONALE
The world is becoming more and more
competitive. Quality of pupils’ academic performance
has become the key factor for personal progress. It is
the desire of all parents that their children climb the
ladder of academic performance as high level as
possible. In fact, it appears as if the whole educational
system revolves round the academic performance of the
pupils.
 Thus and has to be made by educationalist to find
various strategies to unravel the complex determinant of
academic performance, such as intelligence, study habit
and other personality variables like self concept, anxiety
and attitudes.
 Study habits are usually defined as pupils’ ability
to manage time and other resources to complete an
academic task successful. ‘Study habit’ is the amount
and kind of studying routines which the student used
during a regular period of study which occurred in a
conducive environment.
Crede and Kunsel (2008) defines study habit as study
routines, including, but not restricted to, frequently of
studying sessions, review of material, self-testing,
rehearsal of learned material, and studying in a
conducive environment.
Pupils’ attitudes towards the act of studying (Crede &
Kuncel, 2008) are referred as “study attiyudes”. There
are many factors affecting study orientation expressive
of study habits and attitudes of pupils. Individual
differences, effective usage of time, note-taking, study
habits training, family, proper study environment,
homework, using library, reading-listening, and writing
and outstanding common factors.
However, interest and will are very important for
study habits and attitudes. Individual differences can
be analyzed in terms of control focus, gender, success
dimension.
The quality of a nations depends the quality of
its citizen. The quality of the citizens depends on the
quality of their education and quality of education
besides other factor which depends upon study
habits and study attitudes of the learners. Quality of
education is reflected trough academic achievements
which is function of study habits and study attitudes of
the pupils. Thus, to enhance the quality of education is
it necessary to improve study habits and study attitudes
of the pupils. To improve study habits and attitudes,
factors are needed to identify which affect those
characteristics adversely.
Identification of these factors may lead towards
remedial measures.
The focus of this study is on pupils’ attitudes and
study habit toward science subjects taught in
elementary classrooms. Thus, the scope of the present
study was limited to science as experience by pupils in
elementary school rather than out-of-school
experiences obtained from external source.
Attitudes towards science denotes interests or feeling
towards studying science. It is the pupils’ disposition
towards like or dislikes of science subject while attitude
subject in science means scientific approach assumed
by an individual for solving problems, assessing ideas
and making decisions.
 II. ACTION REASERCH QUESTION

The study aims to determine the relationship of the

study and attitudes of Grade VI pupils from selected
Mamburao Elementary SchoolDistrict, Diision of
Occidental Mindoro to their academic performance in
Science for the SY 2017-2018.
The study will answer the following questions:
1. What is the attitude of the respondents in their
science subject?
2. What is the assessment on the study habits acquired
by the respondents?
3. What is the level of performances of the responses in
their science subject?
4. Is there a significant relationship between the
respondent’ study habits and attitudes towards Science
subject?
5. Is there a significant relationship between the
respondents’ attitudes and academic performance in
science.
6. Is there a significant relationship between the
respondents’ study habits and academic performance in
Science?
 III. SCOPE AND LIMITATION
The researcher will focused on the study habits
and the study attitudes of Grade Six pupils in Science
in relation to academic performance from selected
Mamburao Elementary Schools in the Division of
Occidental Mindoro. The respondents were limited
only to Grade VI pupils of selected schools of
Mamburao District SY 2017-2018.
 IV. PROPOSED INNOVATION, INTERVENTION
AND STRATEGY
The following are the innovation, intervention and strategy
to make the attitudes and study skills in science more effective
such as;
> Make the lesson in science more interesting and enjoyable
by providing hands on activities that provide students with
opportunities to engage in exploration and sense making with the
science content like experimentation and research.
> To sustain good motivation of the student to study,
make the lesson real or authentic by creating learning
activities that are based on topics that are relevant to the
pupils’ lives. Strategies include using local examples,
teaching with events in the news, using pop culture
technology(iPods, cell phones, tablet, YouTube videos)
to teach or connecting the subject with your students
culture, outside interest and social lives.
 > Science teacher should demonstrate more
positive attitudes towards sciences than their pupils by
showing great enthusiasm, resourcefulness, helpful
behavior, and thorough knowledge of the subject matter.
>Provide the pupils with some tips to increase their
span for concentration while studying their lesson in the
classroom or even at home.
 V. ACTION RESEACH METHODS

A. Participants and /or other source of Information

The participants/ respondents of the present study
were 120 Grade VI pupils fro selected schools of Mamburao
District School Year 2017-2018.
Table 1. Respondents’ Distribution.
SCHOOL POPULATION SAMPLE SIZE PERCENTAGE
Mamburao Central School 25
Fatima Elementary School 36 8 25
Talabaan Elementary 8
School-Proper
Casoy Elementary School 12
Tayamaan Elementary 23
Schhol
Aroma Elementary School 18
Dapi Elementary School 8
 It shows the distribution of the respondents in the
study. Out of pupils that composed the total
population of Grade VI pupils in Mamburao District,
120 were used as respondents. This number is 25% of
the total population. According to Cohen (1988)this
number will satisfy the requirements to run the
correlation and regression analysis.
b. Data Gathering Procedure
Permission from the School Administrator/School
Head of the concern school were sough before the
conduct of the study. The questionnaire were distributed
to the respondents. The final grades of the respondents
were requested from their science teachers or advicer.
C. Data Analysis
Descriptive statistics such as frequently distribution,
percentage, mean and standard deviation were used to
determine respondents’ study habits, attitudes towards
science and their academic performance. The relationship
between the variables will be measured using the Pearson
Product Moment Correlation.
All the responses will be computed using a computer
software, the Statistical Package for Social Sciences.
VI. ACTION RESEARCH WORKPLAN
AND TIMELINE
Activity Week/Month Week/Month 2 Week/Month 3 Week/Month 4 Week/Month 5
1

1. To seek January 2018

permission
from the
School
Administrator
to conduct
questionnaire
Activity Week/Month 1 Week/Month 2 Week/Month 3 Week/Month 4 Week/Month 5
V I.A C T IO N R E S E A R C H W O R K P L A N A N D T IM E L IN E

2. To determine February 2018

the respondents
results on a given
questionnaire
3. To find the
results and February to
findings including March 2018
its analysis and
interpretation on
the questionnaire
4.To find out the March
Summary,
conclusion and
recommendation
based on the
analysis obtained