Time Management And Student Academic Performance Case Study

2.5 The relationship between Time Management and University Student’s Academic performance
In the relevant literature, there are a great number of studies focusing on the relationship between time management and student’s academic performance. The related literature showed that there is a significant and positive relationship between time management and student’s academic performance(Hamzah, Lucky, & Jorger, 2014). Among many factors which can dive direct impact on academic performance, time management and external motivation have chosen as the higher influences on it. Researchers argued that time management is an important factor for higher academic achievements and encouraged students to develop good time management skills to improve academic
They agreed that students with higher academic achievements are good time managers. It also showed that students’ behavior in time planning is in good term but bad in time management. Time planning and time management showed positive relation to academic performance which means that both will influence students’ academic achievements. While no relationship show between time consumers and academic achievement. In the research, it stated that time management is very important and may directly affect individual’s overall academic performance. From other study, it proved that time management skills of university students have a notable effect on their academic achievement(Pehlivan, 2013). It also assumed that female students are more effectively than male students in time management because female students implement more on listing, planning and programming. There is a positive significant relation between grade-point averages and time attitudes sub-dimension. It suggested that students focus on long-range planning rather than short range planning to boost their academic achievements. It also argued that student’s time management skill affect their academic performance regardless of low or high skills. Therefore, the researches encouraged the students to develop their time management skills beginning in their preschool life in order to be successful in
Researcher used pickle jar to model with time. Individuals can try it out practically by filling an empty pickle jar with rocks. Fill up the spaces between the rick stones with pebbles or gravel. After filling with pebbles or gravels, the jar becomes more compact but there are some unnoticeable spaces exist and able to compact with sand. Pour water inside the jar after the sand and close the lid tightly. This pickle jar is the duplicate of our life. Rocks are representing the main responsibilities or goals of our life which occupy most of the space. This indicates that we should devote more time to achieve the goals. The pebbles or gravels symbolize our hobbies that require lesser time than goals. Lastly, sand particles indicate the daily chores of our life and they placed perfectly between goals and hobbies. Water is the distraction occurred in our life that takes away our attention from the road of success. Apart from teaching us the right way to manage time, this theory also makes us aware of the fact that distractions that lead to mismanagement should be avoided completely in order to follow the right track(Sengupta,