Reading habits and study habits as predicator to academic achievement of Business Education students in University of Benin in Affiliation with Federal College of Education Technical Akoka Lagos Nigeria
Keywords:
Predicators, Reading habits, Academic achievements, Business education, Study habitsAbstract
Habit is a route a person does regularly. It cannot be altered. Reading habits is a mental attitude in readiness to comprehension and reading. Study habits is a systematic ways of effectively producing academic output. Hypothesis were formulated and tested. Simple random and stratified sampling techniques were used. Correlation was used to test hypothesis. It was concluded that reading and study habits are strong predicators towards academic achievements.
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