THE SELF-EVALUATION ON LEVEL OF GAINING LEARNING SKILLS BY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN HO CHI MINH CITY
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Learning skills help students be successful in their academic activities. However, to gain learning skills takes time and training. The article is about the self-evaluation on level of gaining learning skills by senior high school students in Ho Chi Minh City. The main method of this article is the survey by a questionnaire adapted from: UHCL Counseling Services with 64 items distributed in 8 sections of the questionnaire of the 4 level Likert scale, conducted on 633 students in three senior high schools: Nguyen Huu Canh (District 11), Mac Dinh Chi (District 6), and Tran Van Giau (District Binh Thanh) in Ho Chi Minh City. The results of the article include 2 contents: (1) the rankings of 64 items; and (2) the rankings of 8 sections in the questionnaire from top to bottom: Test Strategies and Test Anxiety (ranking 1); Concentration and Memory (ranking 2); Time Management and Procrastination (ranking 3); Reading and Selecting the Main Idea (ranking 4); Organizing and Processing Information (ranking 5); Study Aids and Note-taking (ranking 6); Motivation and Attitude (ranking 7) and Writing (ranking 8). The conclusions: Based on the results mentioned above, the teachers and educators can choose the contents of the learning skills that the students need to improve, and adopt the efficient ways to develop the learning skills for the students.
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self-evaluation, learning skills, academic activities, senior high school students
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