An Investigation to Determine the Relationships between College Students’ Attitudes toward Reading and Their Reading Habits
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Author
Giglio, Mary Ann FaulsKeyword
Reading AttitudesReading Habits
Reading Relationships
College Students’ Attitudes
Learning Skills
Date Published
1979-12-01
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the reading attitudes and the reading habits of two distinct groups of freshman college students. One hundred students enrolled in classes in the Learning Skills Center and one hundred students enrolled in classes in the General Education Program were involved in this study. A second purpose was to determine if a significant difference, in relation to reading attitudes and reading habits, existed between the two groups. Statistical analysis strongly revealed that a significant correlation exists between the reading attitudes and the reading habits of the two groups of freshman college students. The results also demonstrated that no significant difference exists between the two groups of freshmen. It appears that a relationship exists between how students think about reading and their actual habits but the exact nature of that relationship is unknown.