University Students and Study Habits

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University students and study habits

The quality of education in Australia is on the decline, due to Australian Education system failure as well as the failure at the individual students majorly based on challenges such as poor study habits (Wilson, Dalton & Baumann, 2018: Haast, 2018). According to a study by (Cerna & Pavliushchenko, 2015), students study habits have a great influence on their performance. This article aims at establishing what makes poor study habits, its causes, and the effects it has on the students.

Study habits refer to the methods that students use during their studies (Khan, 2016). Poor study habits include the inability of students to properly schedule their study time. It also includes the failure of the students to review the right study materials and lack of self-evaluation towards improving academic performance. According to (Fleming, 2018), poor study habits comes because of a lack of effective learning by the students over a period (Crede & Kuncel, 2018).

The causes of poor study habits are failure in the education system and the student's lack of interest. The Australian government has failed to put in place education system and structures that offer the best learning environment for the students (Meeks, Kemp & Stephenson, 2014). The government plays a key role in ensuring skilled teachers are deployed to schools, teachers play a key role in influencing knowledge and skills to the students this includes informing them on the good study habits to improve performance (Haast, 2018). Lack of this leads to the inability of the students to develop good study habits (Williams & Clark, 2012). The universities also lack well-equipped libraries that students can use to carry out their research at their convenience. 

Personal behaviors of the students also cause poor study habits. A report by (Anderson, 2018) indicates that Australian students have increasingly gone through behavior crisis, whereby the frequency of noise making in class is increasingly going up and the students have lacked the ability to concentrate during lessons due to distractions from peers or gadgets such as mobile phones that they carry to class. They also fail to follow up on issues when they fail to understand concepts in class leading to poor performance in mathematics and science subjects.

Poor study habits lead to the failure of students to perform well in their exams. This is a pathway to the poor economic status of the students in the future due to lack of qualifications that would guarantee them getting employment opportunities. Academic failures also affect the social status of the students leading to depression in most cases and lack of self-confidence. Students who fail in exams are likely to look for other ways to survive that include engaging in criminal activities (Khan, 2016).

Poor study habits among students in Australia are caused by the lack of government commitment to improve the education system and lack of students efforts to improve their learning. The effect this has is poor academic performance, which reduces the chances of the student to gain meaningful employment.

References

Anderson, S. (2018). Australian school rankings falling behind the rest of the world. Retrieved from https://www.mamamia.com.au/pisa-results-shows-australias-failing-education-system/

Cerna, M., & Pavliushchenko, K. (2015). Influence of Study Habits on Academic Performance of International College Students in Shanghai.

Crede, M., & Kuncel, N. (2018). Study Habits, Skills, and Attitudes The Third Pillar Supporting Collegiate Academic Performance. Retrieved from https://www.scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/YAN_Project4_article_Sp_2011.pdf

Haast, B. (2018). Review of Peterson & Tudball's Civics and citizenship education in Australia: Challenges, practices and international perspectives. Education Review // Reseñas Educativas, 25. doi: 10.14507/er.v25.2288

Fleming, G. (2018). 5 Bad Study Habits and How to Fix Them. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/bad-study-habits-1857541

Khan, Z. (2016). Factors Effecting on Study Habits. World Journal Of Educational Research, 3(1), 145. doi: 10.22158/wjer.v3n1p145

Meeks, L., Kemp, C., & Stephenson, J. (2014). Standards in Literacy and Numeracy: Contributing Factors. Australian Journal Of Teacher Education, 39(7). doi: 10.14221/ajte.2014v39n7.3

Williams, A., & Clark, L. (2012). Poor Study Skills and Untapped Resources: A Study of Entry-Level Mathematics Students’ Study Habits. Journal Of Studies In Education, 2(2). doi: 10.5296/jse.v2i2.1601

Wilson, R., Dalton, B., & Baumann, C. (2018). Six ways Australia's education system is failing our kids. Retrieved from http://theconversation.com/six-ways-australias-education-system-is-failing-our-kids-32958