An Experimental Study to Assess Study Skills and Effectiveness of Implementation of Study Skill Manual on Learning Outcome Among B.Sc. Nursing 2nd Year Students in Selected Nursing Colleges of Bhilai, Chhattisgarh

Abstract

Study skills are approaches applied to learning. They are generally critical to success in school, considered essential for acquiring good grades, and useful for learning throughout one's life. Education provides considerable value to individuals; it helps each individual to make of himself all that is possible for him to become. Good academic performance and high percentages in examinations are often considered as predictors of academic success. To perform well in examinations and for enhanced academic success, effective study skills comprising learning techniques and study strategies have been found to play an important role. Study skills are strategies and techniques that enable you to make the most efficient use of student’s time, resources, and academic potential. Developing and improving study skills can help to make more efficient use of one’s study time - get more work done in less time and to make learning easier and help retain what one has learned for longer. A true experimental research approach was undertaken in the present study “An experimental study to assess study skills and effectiveness of implementation of Study skill manual on learning outcome among B.Sc. Nursing 2nd year students in selected nursing colleges of Bhilai (C.G.)”. Tools consist of self-structured questionnaire for socio demographic variables. Modified Dennis. H. Congos study skill inventory scale to assess study skills. Non standardized self-structured questionnaire (teacher made test) to assess learning outcome of students. Reliability coefficient of modified dennis h congos study skill inventory scale was found to be ‘r’ = 0.87 and Reliability coefficient of Non standardized self-structured questionnaire (teacher made test) ‘r’ = 0.88.