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Study Habits of Secondary School Students
1 Neeru Gupta , Dr. Maumita Sengupta
1Research Scholar, Department of Education, Sri Satya Sai University of
Technology & Medical Sciences, Sehore, MP
ABSTRACT:
Study habits are the behaviors used when preparing for tests or learning academic material.
Study habits helps in learning more and more. And the level of understanding will decide what
learned from study. Study Habit is important determinant of performance of school students.
This paper reflects study habits of secondary school students.
KEYWORDS: Study Habits, Institutional climate, Creativity, Characteristics
I. INTRODUCTION:
Study usually is associated with reading and reference work but it is also related to the solution
of problems of daily life. If there is no need for study, there are no study habits because study
requires energy and time according to which study habits are formed.
Most of the students find study distasteful. Therefore, teachers have to help the learners to find
ways in which their study may become as pleasant, interesting and fruitful as possible. Many
students need continued guidance. Others can develop good study procedure on their own that
will achieve the optimum results. Learners have different levels in different environments, and
also different study habits. Some cannot study alone.
II. STUDY HABITS
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Institutional Climate largely depends upon the classroom activities that can be described as a
process of interaction between the teacher and the taught, between classroom group and the
teacher and between the student (individuals) and the class room groups. Their interaction
directly or indirectly motivates the child to learn and also to develop proper study habits. Study
can be interpreted as a planned program of subject matter to attain mastery over a stipulated
period of time. Study usually is associated with reading and reference work but it is also related
to the solution of problems of daily life. If there is no need for study, there are no study habits
because study requires energy and time according to which study habits are formed.
Most of the students find study distasteful. Therefore, teachers have to help the learners to find
ways in which their study may become as pleasant, interesting and fruitful as possible. Many
students need continued guidance. Others can develop good study procedure on their own that
will achieve the optimum results. Learners have different levels in different environments, and
also different study habits. Some cannot study alone.
Some can study only when they are alone. For some best study time is night, for others it’s
morning or day time. Some have peculiar learning habits. They cannot learn without music.
Some take a long time to learn or to concentrate while others quickly grasp the subject. The
whole crux of the matter is that study habits vary in different students or in the same student at
different levels.
III. CREATIVITY
Creativity stands for ‘Capacity to accept challenge’ ‘Freedom to exercise choice’ and ‘Readiness
to change self and environment.’ Flexibility, divergence, originality and an ability to synthesize
ideas are key ingredients of creativity.
Creativity produces new methods, new concepts, new understandings, new inventions and new
works of art. It is at the very root of human progress. Since time immemorial, we human beings
are curious by nature about new things and fascinated by new ideas. Thinking may stop at a point
but creativity does not stop. It is an endless process. Creativity comes out whenever an
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opportunity arises. It becomes evident in science exhibitions, poetry, drawing, painting, science
fairs, creative writing and elocution etc. If children’s minds are cultivated with creativity from
the childhood, there will be a creative world around us in future.
Creativity being essentially a human phenomenon gives birth to the process of systematic
thinking which further leads to a variety of solutions to each problem.
Creative people believe in a wide variety of possibilities available through divergent ideas for
any problem if these possibilities are applied in a systematic manner one by one. It is equally true
that all creative people are capable but all capable people are not creative. Each one of us has
creative potentialities but one must work hard to be creative.
Creativity helps teachers and educationists to improve themselves and also their students. It also
helps parents to be constructive in promoting creativity among their children by inspiring them
through examples or instances.
Great psychologists such as Murphy, Young, Taylor, Rogers, Hednick, Rola, Mooney and
Mackinnon conducted many experiments on creativity. Their theories prove that the essence of
creativity mainly consists of five stages namely: necessity, evolution, synthesis, application and
different directions. They also stressed that these qualities could be learnt by one and all.
J.P. Guilford (1950) stated that “The teaching methods of present educational system are
satisfactory but the boys and girls lack in creative thinking. The study without creativity is a
blind one.”
In the modem society the need and importance of creativity has increased all the more due to the
technological revolution. All progressive nations are trying to develop creativity in the new
generations. Therefore, it occupies a predominant place in pedagogy and educational
psychology. Everyone is in search of new creations. As the school is considered a miniature
society, the creative abilities should be cultivated among students.
