Analyzing the study habits of a sample of Libyan university students and studying the extent to which these habits are affected by a group of personal, family, and academic factors.

Abstract

This study aims at evaluation of the University student achievement and analysis of his performance on a number of other scales, some of which is worldwide (The Raven’s Progressive Matrices Test), and some were developed locally (The Scale of Study Attitudes, Self-concept and study Habits-SSScH), Which was found to be valid, reliable and discriminative between groups through a pilot study conducted prior to the major study. It was found that University students of Applied Sciences were younger, more study oriented, and used better home study techniques and habits. They also showed better performance on each of the three scales used in this study, and enjoyed a greater deal of positive family factors which facilitated their study at home. The report included some difficulties facing university education, suggested some remedies, recommended new fields of study to satisfy youth’s ambitions and oriented towards job opportunities.