Effect Of Study Skills On Low Academic Self-Concept Among Secondary School Students Of Gombe Local Government Area Of Gombe State

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume VI, Issue I, January 2022 | ISSN 2454–6186

Effect Of Study Skills On Low Academic Self-Concept Among Secondary School Students Of Gombe Local Government Area Of Gombe State

Chinyere Catherine Ngwakwe and Lydia I. Dabo

Abstract
This paper investigated the effect of study skills on low academic self-concept among secondary school students in Gombe local government area. One research question was posed and one hypothesis formulated to guide the study. The design of the study is experimental research design. The population of the students with low academic self-concept is 1110. The sample of the study is 32 students which were selected through purposive sampling technique. Academic self-concept survey scale instrument was used for data collection. The data collected was analysed using mean and standard deviation while the null hypothesis was tested using analysis of co-variance at 0.05 level of significance. From the findings it was revealed that study skills is effective in enhancing academic performance of secondary school students and also there is significant difference in the post-test mean score of students treated with study skills and those of the control group. With this it was recommended that study skills technique should be adopted by school counsellors and other allied professionals as an effective treatment technique in enhancing academic self-concept of secondary school students and enhancing academic achievement, self-concept and mental health in school setting among others.

Keywords: Study Skill, self-concept, Academic self-concept, Low self-concept.

Introduction
The way an individual students feels, beliefs about himself or herself, has a profound effect on his academic work. A student that sees himself or herself as inferior or superior would go a long way in determining his or her level of academic performance in school and his or her relationship with others. Students’ belief, thought, feelings, are shaped by experiences in the family, at school, from friendship and the wider society.
A good performance in academic work of a student is generally regarded as a pre-requisite for entry into highly skilled profession in sciences, technology, education and industry. While considering the poor level of academic performance among secondary school students, governments has channelled enormous resources in helping the growth and development of educational programmes at the secondary school level of education. In spite of this support given to secondary school education by the Governments, community, school authorities and parents, some students do not achieve good performance in their academic work due to their low academic self-concept, poor study skills, beliefs, thought, feelings and negative attitude toward their academic work. Academic programme is a process that span through primary school to university education. As such, the learning outcome of a student is determined by his or her academic self-concept, study skills, and beliefs system of the student. All these when put together may have profound effect in the development of one’s consciousness about one’s self either in a positive or negative manner. In the view of above Abiodun (2014), was of the opinion that what students in schools belief, and feel, about themselves are not based solely on what they do only, but usually involve their relationship with other students, whether they feel worthwhile as individual or worthless as an individual. Undiyaundeye (2010) observed that, the most important fact on academic achievement of the students is the student academic self-concept.

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