Study Habits as Predictors of Secondary School Students' Interest and Achievement in Biology

This study was carried out to ascertain study habits as predictors of secondary school students’ interest and achievement in Biology in Nsukka Education Zone. Two research questions guided the study and two null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 alpha level. The design of the study was a correlation survey. The sample size of 475 was drawn out from the 1529 population in 62 public secondary schools using a multi-stage sampling technique, simple random procedure by balloting, and purposive sampling. The instruments for the data collection were structured questionnaires titled Study Habits Questionnaire (SHQ) and Biology Interest Inventory (BII) which was validated by three experts in Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. The reliability of the instruments was established using Cronbach alpha reliability co-efficient to test for internal consistency of the items which yielded reliability indices of 0.78 for SHQ and 0.90 for BII. The results revealed that study habits are significant predictors of students’ interest scores in biology. The results also revealed that study habits are not significant predictors of students’ achievement scores in biology