PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY METHODS AS ANTIDOTES IN ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE PERFORMANCE AND INTEGRITY IN ENGLISH
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OYINLOYE COMFORT
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This study investigated effectiveness of Psychological study method on first year students of Senior Secondary School academic excellent performance and integrity in English Language Examinations. The study is a pre-test, post-test control group design. The population of the study consisted of first year students of senior secondary schools in Ogun State. Stratified sampling method was used to select one hundred and sixty (160) students from two schools and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups with eighty students per group. The instruments in the study were SQ3R and Questions in English composition, questions on English composition was first administered to the two groups while for eight weeks. The data generated were subjected to t-test and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) statistics to test for the acceptance or rejection of the four null hypothesis generated. There was no significance difference of all the subjects prior to the treatment of the experimental group. There were significant effects of the psychological study methods. It was concluded that knowing effective study method enhances academic excellence performance and curbs possibility of examinations malpractices. Integrating psychological study methods with teaching subject in the class is very important. Counselling psychologist must be employed in all levels of education both in public and private institutions, to enhance academic excellence performance and integrity in English language examination.