Students' Study Skills, Comprehension Level and their Academic Performance in English at Lalaan Central School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Study is the process of applying the mind in order to acquire knowledge -(Webster's Dictionary) study skills are learning skills that are also thinking skills when study includes "careful attention to, and critical examination and investigation of, a subject."

METHODS

The study employed of the descriptive analysis correlation method with document analysis. The main instruments used in this study were the Study Skills Checklist used by (Mercado, 200) devised Reading Comprehension test by TOEFL 20 and the grade points averages of the students for the Third Grading Period based on Department of Education Form 137.

The statistical treatments used were frequency count, percentage, mean, standard deviation and chi-square.

RESULTS

1.  Students had very satisfactorily study skills along with concentration, remembering data, organizing time, listening information management, speaking, reading, writing, taking tests and evaluation.

2. The students had good comprehension level.

3. The students' academic performance was fair.

4. Students with very satisfactory study skills tended to have very satisfactory reading comprehension level and academic performance in English and academic performance in English and those with moderately study skills tended to have poor academic performance in English.

DISCUSSIONS

Reading Comprehension Level in English:

Fifty seven (57) or 21.26 percent of the total respondents are very good, 113 or 42.16 are good, 64 or 23.88 percent are fair and 34 or 12.28 are poor. The average weighted mean of 28.85 generally, respondents achieved good in their reading comprehension.

Academic Performance in English:

Thirty -two (32) or 11.94 percent of the respondents are poor in academic performance, 139 or 51.87 percent are fair, 83 or 30.97 are good and 14.5 or 22 are very good in English. Majority have fair grades in English. Reading comprehension and academic performance in English were significantly related at 0.01 level of significance with 32.46 chi-square value.