Study Skills of Students Studying at Different Departments

AbstractBeing a screening model survey, this research aims at determining whether there is a difference in the skills of the students studying at different departments.Population of the study is Mehmet Akif Ersoy University and the sample group is composed of the students in class management, physical education and sport teaching.The data were obtained from written sources and through survey method. After the understandability, content validity and reliability of the questionnaire is assured, it was applied to the sample group through one to one interviews. The survey was applied to 100 students of physical education and sports teaching section and 151 classroom teaching, a total of 251 students. Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient of the questionnaire was 0.96. According to the researchers, Co-efficient is very high. After the collected data had been coded in suitable statistical computing environment, as statistical operations, such procedures as the frequency (f), percent (%), cross-table (Croostab) and X2 (Chi-square) were applied. Comments were made upon by accepting 0.05 confidence interval. As a result of statistical evaluation procedures, we can say that study skills of the students are different and there is a significant difference in 0,05 significance level. As a result, we can say that physical education and sports students and classroom management students have different study skills and methods