Analysis of home reading habits of higher secondary students from arts and science streams
Home reading habits of higher secondary students
Keywords:
Aligarh, Education, Higher secondary, Home reading habits, Internet, Study habitAbstract
The present research aimed to compare the home reading habit of students of two streams i.e. arts and science at higher secondary levels in Aligarh, State of Uttar Pradesh (India). The students of higher secondary level from ten schools were subjected. For the study purpose, 250 students from each of the two streams i.e. arts and science were randomly selected and administered a questionnaire to find out their responses on various items related to the diagnosis of their home reading habits. It can be concluded based on a comparison of two observations that textbooks and magazines reading habit at home was similar in students of two streams at a higher secondary level whereas, students of science stream had better fiction and nonfiction materials, newspapers and on Internet reading habit at home at this level.
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