According to Pisa's 2012 results, Malaysian students scored below average and ranked 52 out of the 65 countries. In contrast, students in Vietnam ranked 17 out of 65. This is really a worrying fact despite that the MOE has already spent billions of ringgit into educational purpose; RM56 billion to be exact. This shows that money alone doesn’t affect student performance in big margin as some of other countries still state the same budget for education as the Malaysia government does but the other countries come up top in the Pisa 2012 result. This is mainly because of study habit of the students. We can put a billion of budgets for education but if the students still don’t implement good study habit, we cannot increase their performance in academic. …show more content…
According to James Clear (2013), we cannot just delete or erase our bad habit, but instead we can replace it with the good one. The source of habit is from our past experience towards certain things. So study habit is likely a result from our collision with certain subject material we trying to learn. Based on Ayodele and Adebiyi (2013), there are certain determinant that effect our habits; socio economic status, faculty, peer group, self-concept and family background. This entire determinant can affect people differently. For example a science faculty student require to read more intensively and more thorough than student from sport science faculty student. This is because most of the sport science faculty student assessment more in practical form and reading is only for basic idea. So these two types of student will adopt different type of study habit.
Ayodele and Adebiyi (2013) also state that self-concept is other main determinant of student study habit. Self-concept in study habit refers to the belief of the person on what study will bring them. Every student self-concept is different from the others. Some students may think that with their ability they can study smart instead of study hard but some student that have bad self-concept will end up adopting bad study habit as they think they doesn’t have the capabilities to study certain subject (low comprehension on subject or uninterested on subject
According to “China: The Educated Giant” by Kristof, American government needs to learn from the Chinese education system in order to meet the competition with China. Chinese students usually study hard, because in China the hardest students are considered the best in school. In contrast, mediocrity is acceptable in America schools. Therefore, American students spend too much time watching TV instead of doing homework. Moreover, Chinese government allocates more resources into education compare to American government.
External factors inevitably contribute to the processes of learning, however, a student’s task is to learn. Despite their
So many times a student gets bored of school or isn’t motivated to go to school and do their homework. Also students are very shy and don’t like asking questions about what they are learning if they
The PISA tests are used to measure performance in reading, math, and science and the scores are available at the OECD website (http://www.oecd.org/pisa/). According to the 2012 PISA scores, 15-year olds in the U.S. scored 17th in reading, 21st in science, and 26th in math. American teenagers are average in reading and science and below average in math when compared to the 64 countries.” Those numbers aren’t terrible when considering Americans finished in the top half in all three categories, but the authors intelligently contrast those results with some from decades
Sometimes we can 't always control the bad things that happen to us. We can’t control the weather, our parents, and we can 't control past mistakes we have made. The way we let these things affect us can change our lives completely. It 's a matter of if we decide if we want them to affect us or not. In the book “7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens” it tells us that you decide whether you want your paradigm to be proactive or reactive.
Most people struggle with figuring out who they really are. The short story "Everyday Use,” written by Alice Walker, emphasizes this aspect of individuality. It is about an African- American mother and her two daughters. The story concentrates on the lives of two sisters named Maggie and Dee(Wangero). Maggie is portrayed as a homely and ignorant girl, while Dee is portrayed as a beautiful and educated woman.
Because of this students will do try for good grades in order to satisfy their parents instead of doing it for themselves to be more
With enhancement in technology, the distraction of the media, and the lack of discipline of oneself has made students think of easier solutions to their problems. Instead of studying for long hours as our ancestors have done, we choose to satisfy ourselves with social entertainment and other fun activities then look for easy ways out when it comes to tests or final exams by taking drugs. On the other hand the fast lifestyle we have in today’s society also impacts our way of learning with limited number of hours to focus on school which are taken by work, family, and other personal issues. Students do not have much time to study the large quantity of materials that’s presented by difficult courses which causes frustration and impatience. The demand on need of different solutions is increasing and supply of that demand is pointed in the same
In "On Habit," de Botton suggests that implying a "traveling mindset," a mindset which requires us to be "receptive," meaning more open to new things. As Gregory Orr recounts his story to his fellow companions in "Return To Hayneville," when he returns to the South 40 years later, where he was taken to jail, along with others and beaten badly, is where his "receptivity" comes to bear fruit. Orr's essay gives an indication as to how his past and present interact on the road to Hayneville. He looks back on time and reflects back on the time and how that changed him as a person and made him who he is now. In 1965, first when Orr goes to Alabama, it is to participate in the Civil Right Movement.
The third type of cultural capital is embodied cultural capital that is internalize within an individual and expressed through the body. According to Bourdieu, embodied cultural capital is the most important among the three types of cultural capital and this function of cultural capital illustrate itself as taste (Allan, 2013). Embodied cultural capital can refer to knowledge and traits associated with an individual and it is portrayed through an individual’s habitus (Allan, 2013). The procurement of embodied cultural capital is similar to the formation of habitus, an integration of body and mind collectively adapted to specialized fields and transformable beyond them (Moore, 2014). I came from a middle-income family and I pursued my education
Cohen and Marcus (1979) advanced the routine activities approach motivated by Hawley’s (1950) work on human ecology and that of Shaw and McKay (1950) on juvenile delinquency. According to William and McShane (1994: 250), the routine activities approach is somewhat of a recent approach, utilizing two central concepts, freedom of choice and action based on routine behaviours to explain and predict criminal victimisation. 2.1.1 Exposition of the routine activities approach In its early development, the routine activities approach mainly focused on property crimes. As a result many scholars believed that it could not be used in explaining personal or violent crimes, as it seemed to focus on a static state of affairs as far as the victim was concerned (Mustaine and Tewksbury, 2000: 340).
The U.S. spends the most money on education compared to other more frugal nations, even so, academic scores are poor and meager at best. This spending obviously does not translate into better performance. Every state and locality decide how much money it allocates towards education and how is it allocated with a few federal guidelines. Though, the schooling system, mainly colleges, has become more focused on short term profit. Focusing more time and money on sporting events than academic
Several studies have been done to identify problems that affects student’s academic performance. The students’ academic performance depends on a number of socio-economic factors like students’ presence of trained teacher in school, teacher-student ratio, attendance in the class, sex of the student, family income, mother’s and father’s education, , and distance of schools (Amitava Raychaudhuri,
Self - directed, intrinsically motivated, active learners seek knowledge. They’re ways of learning are intentional, purposeful. This paper will explore the aspects of a self - directed, intrinsically motivated, active learner. There are areas of personal strengths and weaknesses when one is a self - motivated and engaged student. That will be expound upon as well.
The report is on Singapore’s Education System. It aims to find out the development that Singapore’s Education System have made over the years that make it effective today and to see if there are any negative effect on the students and teacher. It is also to make students realise to not take access to education for granted and to appreciate what the government have done for us over the years because education is the one thing that can change your life for the better. Singapore’s Education System, is said to be “one of the best” in the world and that this is recognised around the world. They were “ranked first in Primary 4 and Secondary 2 Science”.