Behaviour of university entrance candidates concerning organization, management and allocation of time periods for study

Authors

  • João Fernando Rech Wachelke
  • Silvio Paulo Botomé

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v8i2.3263

Keywords:

study organization, study behavior, study habits

Abstract

Being successful in a learning process, especially in schools, demands a good study pattern, including the organization of individual study within available time. Describing study time management behavior and differentiation of its related strategies as employed by university entrance candidates are factors that need to be known in order to identify their relevance as a determinant for success or failure in this kind of learning processes. Available time is scarce, and seems to be an important environmental factor to be known and controlled by those who need to study and prepare for performance testing. Of the 136 subjects who participated in this study. 49 had recently passed a challenging admission exam for medicine in a federal university and 52 had failed it; another 22 individuals had passed an exam for a course of intermediate difficulty also participated as subjects, as well as 13 others who failed this exam. Subjects were asked to answer a questionnaire about how they organized their study time in the year of preparation for the exam. It has been revealed that those who passed an exam of high difficulty tend to devote more time for study and do so more regularly, than those who passed the test for an course of intermediate difficulty. However, subjects who passed or failed an exam of the same level of difficulty have similar study patterns. Interpretation of the data makes it possible to evaluate the high importance of managing available time as one of the conditions for success in study behavior, even though there are other variables that also have very high importance for study behavior. Those variables need to be managed or put under the control in order to achieve highly effective study.

Keywords: study organization; study behavior; study habits.

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Wachelke, J. F. R., & Botomé, S. P. (2004). Behaviour of university entrance candidates concerning organization, management and allocation of time periods for study. Interação Em Psicologia, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v8i2.3263

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Vol. 8 No. 2 (2004)

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