Statistical Analysis of Students’ Reading Habits and their Academic Performance in Tertiary Institution: A Case Study of the Departments in School of Applied Sciences Federal Polytechnic, Ekowe Bayelsa State

Abstract

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.