Students’ Attitude Towards Reading and Its Associated Factors in Samara University, North East Ethiopia

Getnet Mamo Habtie

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Students’ Attitude Towards Reading and Its Associated Factors in Samara University, North East Ethiopia

Getnet Mamo Habtie

Published in Higher Education Research (Volume 7, Issue 1)

Received: 29 January 2022 Accepted: 23 February 2022 Published: 28 February 2022

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Reading is mentally stimulated, attain knowledge and ideas, reduce stress in their lives, advance their vocabularies and memory, and develop keener analytical skills. All of these skills and abilities are critical to a student's success in school and life. Accordingly, this study was intended to identify and analyze the factor that affect student’s attitude towards reading at Samara University. This study used cross sectional study design and 345 students were nominated by via stratified random sampling method and the data have been collected using structured questionnaires. Binary logit model was used under this study. Descriptive statistics result out 345 students 55 (15.9%) had negative attitude towards reading and the remaining 290 (84.1%) had positive attitude towards reading, most students had a positive attitude towards reading. Binary logit regression result that showed: educational level of student’s family, palace of coming students, participation of group discussions and students reading schedule are significant and significantly affect attitude toward reading. This study suggested that: students should have a reading schedule, students must be attending in class & participate group discussion, and the university should provide materials that control the effect of weather condition such as air cooling (AC) and ventilator.

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DOI	10.11648/j.her.20220701.14
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Attitude, Binary Logistic, Reading, Samara, Afar, Ethiopia

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Getnet Mamo Habtie. (2022). Students’ Attitude Towards Reading and Its Associated Factors in Samara University, North East Ethiopia. Higher Education Research, 7(1), 23-31. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.her.20220701.14

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Department of Statistics, College of Natural and Computational Science, Samara University, Samara, Ethiopia

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