Evaluation of Study Approaches and Skills among the Students of Payame Noor University

Abstract

The main purpose of the study was to examine the approaches and skills of study among the students of Payame Nour University. The statistical society included 2857 girl and boy students of Khalkhal Payame Nour University in 2013 school year that 160 persons of them were selected as the sample through classical sampling method and by Morgan table. To examine the research, “the study approaches and skills of students of Pask” with 52 questions of five option Likert Scalehas been used which refers to three approaches of deep, strategic and surfaced. The research data was analyzed by using of descriptive statistical methods (Pearson correlation coefficient) and inferential statistics (T test and the analysis of single factor variance). The research findings indicated that in examine of the relation between the age and the study skills, the meaningful level of the test was less than the standardlimit of 0/05 and this shows that there is a meaningful relation between them. This means that as the students’ age goes higher, the boy students tend to the deep and strategic approaches and the girl students tend to the surface approaches more.The meaningful levels of the test in deep and strategic skills are orderly 0/004 and 0/003 less than the standard limit of 0/05. Therefore, there is a relation between the age and the deep and strategic skills. But there is not a relation between the age and the surface skills because of the large meaningful level of 0/18. In addition, in examining of the study approaches and skills, all of the items were less than the standard limit of 0/05 and they were 0/000, and their correlation coefficient calculated between 0/59 and 1 which indicate a meaningful relation among three study approaches.

Keywords: The study approaches, deep, strategic, surfaced, learning