The Effect of Curriculum for Developing Efficient Studying Skills on Academic Achievements and Studying Skills of Learners

Purpose of this study is to examine the effect of “Development of Efficient Studying Skills Curriculum”on academic achievements and studying skills of 7th grade primary school students. In this study, pretest-post-test from experiment models and semi-experimental model with control group werepreferred. The reason for the preference is our wish to make a comparison between the group onwhich curriculum was implemented (experiment group), and the group on which curriculum was notimplemented (control group) in terms of academic achievement, and acquiring efficient studyingskills. Study population of this research covers 7th grade students from Refika Kü ük al k PrimarySchool in Kocasinan district of Kayseri which is located in the middle of Turkey during 2011-2012academic year (8 units, 320 students). Sample of the study was determined according to purposivesampling which is one of non-probability sampling types. Obtained data were analysed employingCovariance Analysis (ANCOVA). As a result, this research indicated that students can acquire efficientstudying skills by means of Curriculum for Developing Efficient Studying Skills and they increase theiracademic achievements thanks to these studying habits. In this sense, if quality of education is desiredto be increased, students with high level of academic achievements are intended and growing youthis expected to compete with the young population of other states