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 RESEARCH PAPER Social Science Volume - 4 | Issue - 12 | Dec Special Issue - 2014 | ISSN No- 2249-555X

Student Learning Behavior And Academic

Achievement: Unraveling Its Relationship

KEYWORDS student learningOne-lung

behavior;ventilation,
academic achievement; influential factors; learning ability.
Hypoxemia, Thoracotomy

AMIRTHA MARY.T Dr. A. UMESH SAMUEL JEBASEELAN

Doctoral Research Scholar, PG & Research Department of Associate Professor, PG & Research Department of Social
Social Work, Bishop Heber College. Work, Bishop Heber College.

ABSTRACT This empirical study brings to limelight the student learning behavior of lower secondary (9th std) school students
of a rural, urban and a semi-urban school in Tiruchirapalli. Owing to the graving concern of Academic Achievement in
the lives of the children, the researcher has made an attempt to study the relationship of Academic achievement measured by the
student's exam total score and their learning behavior using Student Learning Behavior Scale (C.P. Saxena, 2002) as being one of the
in uential factors in deciding the academic life of the students. A positive learning behavior creates better psychological adjustment
in class and in school. High interest, experience of success and good learning ability are involved in the learning behavior of the
students. Overall, about 53.3% of the student's learning behavior is good and about 25.6% of the student's learning behavior is
moderate. Bi-variate analysis such as correlation is used to nd the relationship of student's learning behavior with their academic
achievement and its extent to which they are related. This research study's ndings will help the academicians, parents and students
themselves to know their learning behavior so that it contributes for continuous learning and high achievement.
1.1 INTRODUCTION: Ÿ To study the correlation between learning behavior of
'Academic Achievement' is one of the signi cant predictor in the students and their academic achievement.
lives of students. It's the outcome of education and it foretells Ÿ To nd out whether male and female differ signi cantly in
the extent to which the students, teachers and educational their learning behavior.
institutions have attained their educational goals. Academic Ÿ To nd out the signi cant difference among the area of living
achievement is important because it promotes success later (rural, urban and semi-urban) with regard to their student
(Areepattamannil & Freeman, 2008) and in current life. Among learning behavior.
the various in uencing factors of academic achievement like Ÿ To suggest suitable measures for improving the student
socio-economic factors, parent factors, peer factors, school learning behavior.
factors, for obtaining an optimal academic achievement,
student's academic or learning behavior is an equally important 1.3. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY:
factor in ascertaining the academic achievement of students. It 1.3.1 Research Design:
includes student's outlook, choice, his/her persistence, his/her The researcher has adopted 'descriptive research design' to
efforts in learning and how he/she relates to the people that understand the learning behavior of the students belonging to
make up the school community (Rogel, I.R, 2012). rural, urban and semi-urban areas.
Study skills are often determined by the student's learning
behavior which affects their learning pattern. Learning Behavior 1.3.2 Universe of the study:
is the mental readiness of the students to learn which indicates The universe for the present study consists of all the 9th students
their resourcefulness, creative thinking and imaginative (both male and female) studying in a rural, urban and a semi-
activities, love for their learning, high interest for reading and urban government school which are situated in Tiruchirapalli
writing and also having better psychological adjustment in class district. The size of the universe is 270.
and school (Saxena,2002). It depends upon the emotional and
social climate of the home and school. Good schools make a 1.3.3 Sampling:
contribution to develop such climate of learning. The researcher applied 'strati ed (disproportionate) random
Thompson, V (2014) in his article titled 'How can behavior affect sampling technique' to select the samples based on the area of
academics of students' speaks about how a student's behavior living( rural, urban and semi-urban) and about 30 samples has
can affect his/her ability to learn as well as other students' been selected in each stratum. Thus, a total of 90 samples were
learning environment. Among a variety of factors, such as being selected for the study.
teacher involvement, parental investment, school quality and
student motivation affecting the academic life of students, it is 1.3.4 Tool for data collection:
student's academic behavior which plays a major role in The researcher collected primary and secondary data in order to
academic achievement. It is highlighted that students having understand the learning behavior of the respondents. The
disruptive behavior such as bullying other students, talking primary data consists of a pre structured 'questionnaire'
during lectures or by requiring the teacher to interrupt lessons to comprising of the a) socio-demographic details and b) Student
discipline them can have a negative effect on entire classroom. Learning Behavior Scale.
There are also other similar studies by Ning, H.K and Downing, K
(2010), Ralph A.T et al., (2010) which investigates how academic a) Socio-demographic details:
behavior, learning styles in uences the academic achievement.
It consisted of questions related to the personal and socio-
Owing to the repercussion of academic/learning behavior on the
demographic details self-prepared by the researcher.
academic achievement of students, the researcher was keen to
understand the relationship of learning behavior with the
academic achievement of students belonging to different b) Student Learning Behavior Scale:
localities -rural, urban and semi-urban areas. Authored by C.P. Saxena (2002) this scale has 40 items related to
the characteristics of learning behavior of the students. The
1.2. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY: instrument has 2 options such as 'always' and 'sometimes' and
Ÿ To know the level of learning behavior of students the scoring procedure is 1 to always and 0 to sometimes. The
belonging to rural, urban and semi-urban areas. reliability and validity coef cients to the scale are 0.83, 0.89, 0.76
Ÿ To study the academic achievement level of students of rural, and 0.79.
urban and semi-urban areas.

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1.3.5. Method of data collection: Table 4

The researcher used 'questionnaire method' to collect the data. Z-test between male and female with regard to their
Translated to the local (Tamil) language the researcher acted as learning behavior
the facilitator during the data collection wherein doubts were
clari ed.
Variable Sex Mean Standard Statistical
Deviation Inference
1.4. FINDINGS:
Table 1 Distribution of the respondents by the level of
learning behavior of the students Student Male 24.07 4.565 Z=1.765
Learning (n:45) P=0.05
Behavior
Female 27.27 5.871 Significant
S.No Level of Learning No. of Percentage
(n:45)
Behavior Respondents
(n=90) From the above table its evident that there occurs a signi cant
difference between the learning behavior of male and female
1) Poor 3 3.3 students and the mean value shows that female's learning
behavior is slightly higher than the males.
2) Moderate 23 25.6
3) Good 48 53.3 Table 5 One way analysis of variance among the area of
4) Very Good 16 17.8 living with regard to the learning behavior of the students

The above table explains the learning behavior of students

revealing that more than half (53.3%) of the students are in the
level of good meaning that the students involve themselves in
continuous learning, have social approval at home and school
and also the students have positive attitude towards school,
teachers and the learning activities.

Table 2 Distribution of the respondents by the student's

AcademicAchievement level

S.No Level of Academic No. of Percentage G1=Rural G2=Urban G3=Semi-urban

Achievement Respondents
(n=90) The table explains that there exists a signi cant difference in the
student learning behavior belonging to rural, urban and semi-
1) Fail 3 3.3 urban areas. The mean difference shows that semi-urban
2) Average 40 44.4 student's learning behavior is high when compared to rural and
3) Good 20 22.2 urban students. The result supports the study of Kumar, S and
4) Very Good 27 30 Sohi, A (2013) which resulted that the locality is likely to have
major effect on the study habits and academic achievement of
The above shows that about 44.4% of the students are in the students.
average level with regard to the level of academic achieve-
ment 1.5 DISCUSSION:
Opportunities for continuous learning, social approval at home
Table 3 Correlation between learning behavior and the and school, the student's positive attitude towards school,
academic achievement of the students teachers and the learning activities have embolden the
students to reach a level of good in their learning behavior.
Pertaining to the academic achievement of students it's found
Variables Correlation Extent of Statistical that about 44.4% of the students are in the average level. The
Value relationship Inference Karl Pearson Coef cient of Correlation test have resulted that
there existed a positive low relationship between the learning
Student Learning 0.125 Low P<0.05 behavior and the academic achievement of students. The
Behavior Significant reason for low relationship could be the in uence of other
and factors like socio-economic status, parenting style and
Academic involvement, school environment deemed to be the predictors
Achievement in deciding the academic achievement of students. As for this
study, it's understood that learning behavior is not only the
From the above table it is evident that, there occurs a signi cant single variable which contributes for academic achievement.
relationship between student learning behavior and academic The learning behavior of the rural, urban and semi-urban
achievement of the students and the extent of relationship is students differ even though they belong to government
very low. It's clear that as student learning behavior increases schools following the same curriculum perhaps the reason
academic achievement also increases and vice versa. could be their school environment or parenting style and their
socio-economic status. Perhaps the personality traits of the
Ralph A.T et al., (2010) 'How Student Achievement is related to male and female have also contributed to the difference in their
Student Behaviors and Learning Style Preferences'. The article learning behavior.
examines the relationship between student achievement and
student behaviors and learning style preferences. The results of 1.6 CONCLUSION:
the study showed that student performance is signi cantly Hence, the researcher would like to put forth the thought that
correlated with student's behavioral choices and their learning even though learning behavior is a student factor there are
styles. many other intervening variables which exert an indirect
in uence on the learning behavior of the students. It is high
time that the educationalists, parents and students focus not
only on the learning behavior of students but also the other
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variables for the optimal academic achievement of the
students.

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