The Influence of Parental Influence on Study Habits of Students
CHAPTER ONE
Purpose of the Study
This study is meant to inform, educate, sensitize and enlighten the general public, especially parents of their influence on the study habit of students.
The study serves as a reminder to parents that they have a role to play in improving the study habit of their children and that it is not solely the duty of the teachers to improve academic performance of the students.
However, this study seeks to remind policy makers that they should formulate policies that will promote students’ study habit across schools in Nigeria.
In addition, the media have a role to play. They could come up with programmes that will spur parents and improve students reading habit.
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
The following are to be discussed:
Concept of parental influence.
Parental involvement in studying seen to show difference in how they learn and how serious they are about learning. Some example of what can influence children and their academic performance are of their parents study with the how much television they watch and if they even like schools.
Luster and McAdoo (2009) believe that parents influence what a child brings to school and how well a child acquires school related skill though the school year such as working with a child on home-work and assignment; monitoring and child both in the and peer group.
Stratton et al (2004). Opened that parental influence could be attributed to interest level of education and financial background.
Rollick (2003) believes that elementary. School should developed a program on mental skill and this will help student to effectively lower their heart rates, which will help them in both psychological and psychol1ogical states.
Macporthland and Braddock (2002) as cited in Luster and McAdoo (2006) believe that socio-economic and racial status also pay a role in learning and how much children want to know and learn.
Onifade (2002) emphasized that parents are not the only one to blame for students school failure he stressed that communities, government, peer group and some other endogenous factors also and contributed towards students study habits and academic performances.
Leftwich and Collins (2004) believe that children whose parents smokes show a number of behavioural symptoms such as irritability decreased self control and lack interest or attention in school be emphasized further that this children viewing television for more than four hour a day and is related to poor study habit and academic performance. Educational programs are associated with better academic skill and pro-social behavior Trough and Wright (2002).
However, most children watch more cartoons than anything, while the adult watch African magic, home video etc. Families in lower economic classes watch television more than those in higher classes.
Study Habit as a Pattern of Learning
When a student gained admission into a school, the general tendency is the high home to pass out with flying colours, but if however student experiences as a regards ability to succeed this consistent failure.
Torshen (2001) may occurs as a result of inexperience or otherwise. According to Levies (2002) the student rationalized the school is not importance to him and he believe he cannot succeed there in order to avoid this school hence effective study habits cannot be over emphasized.
According to Denga (2005) are acts on pattern of behavior they have become easy and automatic through practice so that they occur spontaneously with little concentration of conscious thought.
CHAPTER THREE
Research Methodology
This chapter represents the methodology for the study under the following sub-heading
Research Design
The design for the study will be descriptive survey research design.
It center on the effect of parental influence on students study habit and academic performance the research made use of survey research design because it gives room for every member of population equal chance of being selected. Due to the nature of the study, the study will cover five selected secondary school in Oyo West Local Government Area of Oyo State.
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF RESULTS
This section presents the results of the field study; it shows the descriptive information of the respondents, the results of each of the research questions and the test of hypothesis.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of parental influence on study habits of students. This research employs the descriptive methodology. The data were collected through the administration of questionnaires to 100 respondents.
The objectives of this study were; to determine the influence of parents’ education on students study habit, to find out the influence of parental occupation on students study habit, to find out the Influence of parental level of motivation on students study habit and to discover the influence of family size on students study habit. The responses of the respondents were used to achieve the objectives even as the respondents generally accepted that educated parents will always want their children to study harder, that parents who are educated provide most recommended textbooks and other learning aids for their children and that parents who are educated monitor the reading habit of their children.
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
The role of parents in influencing the study habit of students cannot be over emphasized. Parents have a role to play even more than the teachers in improving the study habit of students. Parents should not from this time forth neglect the duty of check mating the study habit of their children, because the outcome of their attitude is both consequential to them (as parents) and to the society at large. They must bear in mind that these children are the prospective work force of the country who to a very large extent contributes to the economic development of the country and they should be guided aright.
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