TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS OF GRADE 12 STUDENTS OF BOBONAN

NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Statement of the problem

1.What is the profile of the respondents in terms of:
1.1 Sex
1.2 Age
1.3 Monthly family income; and
1.4 General average in Grade 11
2.What are the problems encountered by the respondents in terms of time
management?
3.What skills are employed by the respondents to manage their time?
4. Is there a significant relationship between the profile variables to the time
management skills employed.
TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS OF GRADE 12 STUDENTS OF BOBONAN
NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Part I: Personal Data

Name:(Optional)
Sex: Male [ ]
Female [ ]
Age: 15-16 [ ]
16-17 [ ]
18 and above [ ]
Monthly family income:
Php 5,000 - Php 6,000
Php 7,000 - Php 8,000
Php 8,500 - Php 9,000
Php 10,000 - and above
General average from Grade 11
75 – 80 [ ]
81 – 85 [ ]
86 – 90 [ ]
90 – and above [ ]

Part II
Please read each item carefully. Use the scale below to guide you in
choosing the appropriate column that best described your answer.

SCALE:
ALWAYS 5
OFTEN 4
SOMETIMES 3
RARELY 2
NEVER 1
What are the problems encountered by the 5 4 3 2 1
respondents in terms of time management?

1. I do not do things in order of priority.

2. I do not accomplish what needs to be done during the
day.
3. I do not create “to do” list.
4. I am easily attracted to trips with friends.
5. I do not use my commuting time constructively.
6. I got easily attracted in using phone than studying.
7. I do task with procrastinating.
8. I am lack of self-motivation in studying.
9. I spend my free time for nonsense than studying.
10. I am addicted in watching than in studying.
What skills are employed by the respondents to 5 4 3 2 1
manage their time?

1. I maintain my things organized.

2. I do my priorities first before anything.
3. I do my goal-setting to have my focused and inspiration
to finish what I do.
4. I developed my communication skills to have an easy
connections to other people in case I need help.
5. I plan to help me stick to my schedule to do and finish
what I should finish.
6. I make sure that I can manage my stress to prevent me
in being mentally block.
7. I do some delegation of work if I can’t handle it if I have
my teammates so that I can focus and do my work great.
8. I manage the distractions that may affect me in time
managing like using phone more than doing my tasks.
 CHAPTER I

THE PROBLEM

Introduction

In the modern world, time is seen as an indefinitely divisible and

useable commodity. It helps to infuse the concept of time through the

institution. All the materials and human resources possessed by

organizations can be enhanced in the course of time or be transformed as

time goes on; yet the only asset that cannot be changed or purchased or

stored is time itself (Nasrullah, Saqib Khan, 2015).

On the other hand, in the past, time is spent almost all the time in

doing some such none valuable things since technology and work are not

merely existing, this era evolved and created a much more developed time

pressured scenario where works and some household stuffs are done with

time limit to do some other things. According to Macan, Shahani, Dipboye

& Phillips (2000) as cited by Nasrullah and Saqib Khan, 2015 “The secret

to achieve success in life is effectively managing this resources that

everyone possesses equally and paying sufficient emphasis to planning”.

Though effective and efficient use of time varies with respect to the

task performed, the further increase in the level of knowledge and skills

expected from modern employees has further increased the necessity of

time planning. The road to success in social life passes through effective
and efficient working which is only possible via time management. The

competitive environment we live in today encourages people from as early

as their elementary education to plan and manage time efficiently. Through

the new education system on this fast faced and technology based world,

most of the people are now taught to manage their time effectively like the

High School students, both Junior and Senior High School, are capable in

doing task (performance tasks) and finding time do their practices in such a

short period time. Teaching them to be more time conscious and manage

their time the effectively. The high performance required by competitive

conditions forces, organizations and directors to use time effectively and

stipulates the search to control time stated by Alay & Kocak (2003) as cited

by Nasrullah and Saqib Khan, 2015.

Time management plays a vital role in improving student’s academic

performances and achievements. This shows that having a great time

management skill can help you to excel academically and in their

performances. Each and every student should have time management

ability which includes setting goals and priorities, using time management

mechanism and being organized in using time. Here time management is

only possible through self-motivation; performance, ability and motivation

(Brigitte, Claessens, Eerde, & Rutte, 2005). These are the few activities

performed by today's university students, which act as a barrier between

them and their academic performance. Due to miss management of time

they gap behind (Nasrullah, Saqib Khan, 2015). There is no right way to
manage our time; however, it is important to get know our self, so we can

make decisions about how to use our time. Likewise, in the process of

providing educational services this issue has been a subject of interest

discussed and emphasized in several platforms and an attempt has been

initiated to assess and analyze time and management attitudes and

behavior of students in educational institutions (Denlinger,2009).

In developing countries where students have a lot of issues during

academic journey have a new story for the researcher to dig out much more

interesting results. Time management practices have an impact on the

results of students as empirical studies done by past researchers.

Management-Inspite of knowing about the impact of time management on

academic achievements, this relationship is not given importance by the

students (Sevari & Kandy, 2011). This is one of the causes why most of the

students who has less time management skills got low results academically.

According to Karim, Sevari, Mitra & Kandy, 2015, ongoing problem of

scarcity of knowledge in connection with time management and academic

outputs is due to lack of easiness and of costly ways of collecting data.

Driven by this fact, particular emphasis has been paid in the modern

education system to time management issues by evaluating student's

attitudes and behaviors related to time and its management.

Background of the Study
A mass number of students these days spend less time in studying.

A recent study conducted by American Enterprise Institute shows that

students today study about ten (10) hours less on average than college

students in the 1960s. Different factors are to be considered regarding the

decrease in the amount of time in studying of students. Some factors

include procrastination, non-academic after-school activities, setting

priorities, and appalling habits that might affect the academic performance

of students. A survey conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute

at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies found that

only 34% of today’s students are spending more than six hours per week

doing academic-related works (e.g., doing homework, self-studying, and

working on projects) outside their classes. (Higher Education Research

Institute, 2003). The time spent by students after school hours could largely

affect their development. Through after-school activities, students may

improve their social competence and academic performance.

Conceptual framework
First of all, it is important to note that in spite of all popular attention

to managing time, relatively little research has been conducted on the

process involved in using one’s time effectively (e.g. by using a prime time

to carry out important tasks) and completing work within deadlines

(Claessens et al, 2007, p.256) According to Fleming (2011) an effective time

management is closely associated with an understanding the difference

between efficiency and effectiveness. Fleming (2011) clarifies that while

efficiency involves completing specified tasks in a right manner,

effectiveness relates to identifying the right tasks to be accomplished in the

first place. A similar viewpoint is expressed by Fleming (2011) as well, who

argues that the practice of identification of strategic tasks in an appropriate

manner, and the selection of appropriate tools and techniques for the

completion of those tasks can be considered the most basic conditions of

effective time management. Singh (2008) points to two fundamental

aspects associated with the concept of time:

a) The sequence, and more precisely, the order of the changes;

b) The duration of the changes or of the period between them.

Felton and Sims (2009), on the other hand, closely associate the

concept of time management with one’s self- management. The authors

assert that the focus of time management is priorities and stems from self-

management. Self-management is the powerhouse of time management

(Felton and Sims, 2009, p.21). Zeller (2008) expands this idea and stresses

the importance of having an effective personal system of time management

along with a comprehensive Specifically, the author reasons that effective

time management requires more than good intent and self-knowledge

(Zeller, 2008, p.14), and a good system consisting of specific processes

need to be put in place in order to engaged in time management in an

efficient manner. The specific processes involved in time management are

specified by Downs (2008) as setting priorities, analyzing, filtering,

scheduling and executing. The importance of environmental factors in

effective management of time has been mentioned by Singh (2008), Forsyth

(2010), and Silvis (2011). All of these authors give credit to Schematic

Model of Factors Affecting Time Use proposed by Robinson (1977) in terms

of classification and presentation of environmental factors affecting use of

time in an effective manner. Moreover, Singh (2008) argues that despite the

fact that more than three decades have passed from the introduction of

Schematic Model of Factors Affecting Time Use the importance of the

model has not been compromised.

Statement of the Problem

1.What is the profile of the respondents in terms of:

1.1 Sex

1.2 Age

1.3 Monthly family income; and

1.4 General average in Grade 11

2. What are the problems encountered by the respondents in terms of time

management?

3.What skills are employed by the respondents to manage their time?

4. Is there a significant relationship between the profile variables to the time

management skills employed.

Research Hypothesis

There is no significant relationship between the profile variables to

the time management skills employed.

Significance of the Study

The study will be significant to the following:

The STUDENTS. Student can use this study to know what are the

problems they were encountering in time management and what skills

should they employ to reduce those problems.

The TEACHERS. Teachers will have an idea on what are the

students’ problem in time management and what thing they should do to

reduce those problem.

The ADMINISTRATOR. Administrator will know what the students

are facing in time management and to have the idea or programs that will

be beneficiating the students and even the teachers.

The FUTURE RESEACHERS. Future researchers will have the

sample and some information to the topic and also some information to be

revise and contrast.

Scope and Delimitations of the Study
In the research study, the researchers will be focusing on the Grade

12- Socrates of the Bobonan National High School who has the total

population of 25 students. However, there are some students that will be

excluded to that population this are the researchers.

Definition of Terms

Time- a duration in which a thing happen

Management- the process of dealing with or control in things or people

Time Management- the ability to use someone’s time in effective or

productive way

Procrastination- to be slow or late about doing something that should be

done: to delay doing something until a later time because you do not want

to do it, because you are lazy, etc.