Reading is seen as a process of looking at a written or printed word (or symbol) and getting meaning from them. For a student to have good academic performance, it is perceived that the students should have good reading habits which correlate to the fact that there is a relation between reading habits and academic performance. The test statistic used in this research is the chi-square test of independence, the data used is a primary data gotten through the use of questionnaire administered to the students in the School of Applied Sciences, Federal Polytechnic Ekowe, Bayelsa State. The questionnaire is based on students’ reading habits and their academic performance, the result of the analysis was carried out at 5% level of significance which revealed that academic performance, grade point average, cumulative grade point average, and reading habits are independent of their departments.
Academic performance is the measurement of students’ achievement across various academic subjects. Teachers and perhaps educationists measure academic achievements using classroom performance, graduation grades and results from standardized tests. In this paper, we carried out some statistical analysis to determine if the Grade Point Average (GPA) of students’ academic performance in Computer Science department 2020/2021 National Diploma (ND) one academic session, do depend on the number of hours students spend over the weekends reading their books using simple linear regression analysis and correlation analysis at 5 percent level of significance. The findings of the study shows that there is a linear relationship between the two variables y(GPA) and the number of x(hours) the students spent reading for their examinations, and it also indicates a strong significant difference on the effect of effective reading of students’ academic performance in tertiary institutions.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.