Effect of Shaping Technique on Poor Study Behaviour of Secondary School Students in Ogidi Education Zone

Abstract

The study investigated the effect of shaping technique on poor study behaviour of secondary school students in Oyi Local Government Area of Ogidi Education zone of Anambra state. Two research questions guided the study and two hypotheses tested at 0.05 statistical level of significance. A pre-test, post-test non-randomised control group quasi-experimental design was adopted for this work. The population size was 704 SS2 students. The sample size was 41 students who were identified by the norm 75 score as having poor study behavior from the selected schools using a multi-stage sampling procedure. First, purposive sampling technique was used to select Community Secondary School, Awkuzu and Community Secondary School, New Era Secondary School, Nteje from the forty (40) public secondary schools in Oyi Local Government of Ogidi Education Zone. The standardised instrument for data collection was Study Behaviour Inventory (SBI) developed by Akinboye (2009) on a page of 25 items which had five sections with the reliability coefficient of 0.874. Mean was used for answering the research questions and the analysis for co-variance statistics (ANCOVA) used for testing the hypotheses. Furthermore, the findings of this study revealed that shaping was effective on study behaviour of secondary school students in Ogidi Education zone of Anambra. There was also no significant difference in their mean scores. In line with the above findings, it was recommended that shaping technique should be adopted by counselors in the schools and other allied professionals as effective treatment technique on study behaviour among secondary school students and also in reducing other behavioural disorder in school setting, Teacher should try to refer students with poor study behaviour to guidance counsellors for proper diagnosis, dialogue and counselling it goes out of hand.