The purpose of this study was to verify the effect of Text Reading Skills Training program on academic achievement and study habits.
The subjects were 80 seventh-grade male students. They were randomly assigned to one of two groups. Half of the subje...
The purpose of this study was to verify the effect of Text Reading Skills Training program on academic achievement and study habits.
The subjects were 80 seventh-grade male students. They were randomly assigned to one of two groups. Half of the subjects (experimental group) were trained with Text Reading Training program, and the other half (control group) received no training. After and before the training, the subjects of two groups were administered the study Habit Inventory and then academic achievenment scores were obtained.
Training procedure was divided into five periods; (1)
(1) Reading Skills, (2) Reading Skills Training, (3) Text Readng, Skills, (4) Text Reading Skills Training(I) and (5) Text Reading Skills Training(Ⅱ).
A 2×2 analysis of variance was carried out to test statistical significance of the main and interaction effects of Study Habit scores. There is to significant main effect but significant interaction effect. So post-hoc test was conducted to test the difference of two mean scores of experimental and control group. And t-test was conducted to test statistical significance of mean difference in academic achievement scores between the two groups.
Based upon the findings of the present study, the following conclusions were made; (1) There is a singnificant difference in reading habits and technique factors scores between experimental and control group. (2) There is no significant difference, but a little enhancement in motivation factors and total study Habit scores for experimental group's subjects, (3) There is no significant difference, but quiet a little enhancement in the mean scores of total academic achievenlent for the experimental groups subjects. But there is a significant difference in the mean scores of social subjects among the academic achievement. (4) It is clarified that the Text Reading Skills Training program which was used in this study is more effective in social subjects than others ; it seems that the development and appliance of the Text Reading Skills Training program should include the comprehensive and flexible content of the training, considering the trait of each subject and individual student.