OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE GOMOA WEST DISTRICT FELICITY AKPENE AKAGAH 2011 university of education, winneba DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION INFLUENCE OF STUDY HABITS ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE GOMOA WEST DISTRICT By FELICITY AKPENE AKAGAH B.Ed. (BASIC EDUCATION) A Thesis in the Department of PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION, Faculty of EDUCATIONAL STUDIES, Submitted to the School of Research
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Adjustment for me was never easy, since I was a child I made a lot of adjustments in myself, my surroundings how I should feel and think when some people are around or I am being threatened by other’s presence. Before I start my autobiography on how I made adjustments in my life let me define the word ”adjustment” first. According to my sources adjustment, in psychology, the behavioral process by which humans and other animals maintain equilibrium among their various needs or between their needs
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Reflections of My Past and Visions of My Future I. My family growing up. A. Large family B. Oldest of five children C. Parental influence II. My childhood memories. A. Family reunions B. My neighborhood C. Little League D. Summers in Mexico E. The high school years III. My job history A. Rehabilitating houses in Watts B. Building grocery stores C. Wholesale distributor D. The Sears years IV. My Family A. Marriage B. Children C. Grandchildren V. My personal, professional
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was one of my earliest memories of my dad, at age six just entering first grade. I was still pronouncing “refrigerator” as “refrige-agator” and “cinnamon” as “cimamin.” My parents corrected me every time I would say the wrong word, or pronounce my “r’s” as “w’s.” They even sent me to the speech therapist at my elementary school, just to find out that it was un-needed and I would simply grow out of my bad habits. My parents have always helped me with everything involving school and academics, which
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day to day lives. One of my earliest memories was in my first grade math class when my teacher handed everyone a “magic square” worksheet, which was just a simpler version of sudoku. At first I was confused, but that confusion turned into fascination as I began to solve the puzzles. Or, when I was seven years old as I was waiting for my family to leave for dinner, for entertainment, I began doubling two into four, then eight into sixteen as I tried to see how high I could go. Therein lied the roots
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Part One- Introduction A. I became active in sports and sports spectating roughly when I was in middle school. When I got to middle school I became active in athletics and got my first taste of competitive sport and loved it. B. I believe that some of my biggest influences in becoming so active in sports was my family. Many people in my family are coaches, and for the majority of my childhood I was the only girl within my group of my cousins, so growing up I watched many sports events and played
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From birth, toddler, child, through adolescence and into adulthood you grow and experience the world. You witness relationships, you catalogue, and you distinguish and start to take a broad view about what you perceive. These experiences, memories and learnt ideas are what form your concept of a worldview. My worldview is that we are all products of our environment. My beliefs and attitudes have resulted from the process through which my education and learning has been obtained. The beliefs and attitudes
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ability. The closest measuring tool we have in our modern day era is the use of standardized exams and grade point averaging to try to figure out just how educated and learned the students in today’s world are. Measuring education in this modern school system is mainly based on end of the year final exams and standardized measuring numbers such as grade point averages and SAT scores. Although these exams and numbers do give a roughly good measurement of a certain student’s education level, it doesn’t
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competition when I was 6 years old brings my memory back to the past days. Having a strong interest in dancing, I began to learn it when I was three years old. At the moment when I had the first certificate of dancing in hand, I was so happy that I believed I will become a good dancer one day, dancing with people to the music. Since my parents were too busy to play with me, I didn’t go home where there was only me, but rushed to the dancing practice room after school. The practice room was just like my home
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entire movie, as the protagonist, Charlie faces issues with belonging at school, home and in general society, he just doesn't belong, he's soon become a wallflower. The term belonging is a state of being a member of a group or organisation. It is the sense of being a part of something, to be accepted, to be loved and cared for, to have the comfort and support of someone. Charlie struggles to fit into any particular group at school, he watches other people talk and socialise, but doesn't join in himself
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