The Relationship between Medical Students’ Time Management Skills and Academic Achievement

Nowadays, time is being consumed rapidly. Almost everyone is suffering from the lack of time. The only thing that is desired is to evaluate the maximum time for a while. It is possible to manage ourselves in time. Time management ensures is be effective and efficient in one’s work and personal life.Time management consciousness starts from childhood, matures and develops during the university. Especially time management is of vital importance to get good grades in their lecture for university students. So, students must learn how to manage their time and how to improve their time management skills for having well education and business life. The goal of that study is to determine whether there is a relation ship between time management and academic successes of the university students or not. For this purpose, in 2012-2013 spring semester, in Faculty of Tecnical, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Letters of Karabük University, students studying in third and fourth class is determined as the study group. The questionnaire was administered to the study group. The questionnaire was created by examining the literature. According to research, is the relationship between time management skills and academic achievement of students. Time management skills vary according to gender, grade level, where they live and they study in üniversity.

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THE IMPORTANCE OF TIME MANAGEMENT FOR THE SUCCESSFUL OF TEENAGERS’ IN EDUCATION: AN OVERVIEW

EPRA International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (IJMR) ◽

10.36713/epra8291 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 330-339

Author(s):

Amuta Arumugam ◽

Dr.Ganesan Shanmugavelu ◽

Dr.Fauziah Hanim Bt.Md Yusof ◽

Dr.Munirah Bt.Abd Hamid ◽

Dr.M. Nadarajan Manickam ◽

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Keyword(s):

Academic Achievement ◽

Time Management ◽

Academic Standards ◽

Good Time ◽

Management Skills ◽

Daily Routines ◽

Dynamic Relationship ◽

Overall Performance ◽

Time Planning ◽

The Relationship

This study examined the dynamic relationship between the time management skills and the that impact on teenagers’ academic achievement. Time management is the key valuable factor and it may actually affect individual’s overall performance and achievements. However, all of these are related by how individuals manage their time to suit their daily living or to make it flow steadily with their routines. Encouraging settings and environment will surely promote positive outcomes to teenager, besides having good lectures. Nevertheless, good time management is vital for teenagers to shine, however, some of the teens do not have good time management skills that have negatively affected their lives and their academics. The usage of time by teenagers in higher education institutions is related to their daily routines and activities. Their time management can also affect stress levels as they need to cope with their tasks and their personal achievements. In this regard, the hypothesis was analysed that how effectively, they are managing their time for achieving their academic standards. Meanwhile, there were significant factor in behaviour and attitude impact in time management into positively related to academic achievement of teenager although the relationship is weak. Time planning is the most significant correlated predictor.

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Relationship between Self Concepts and Students' Academic Achievements in Selected Medical Colleges

Bangladesh Journal of Medical Education ◽

10.3329/bjme.v2i1.18131 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 10-13

Author(s):

Md Humayun Kabir Talukder ◽

Shahana Parvin

Keyword(s):

Academic Achievement ◽

Medical Students ◽

High Achievers ◽

Self Concept ◽

Dominant Dimension ◽

Achievement Data ◽

Significant Difference ◽

The Relationship ◽

Pearson Correlations ◽

Medical Colleges

This cross - sectional descriptive study was conducted to explore the relationship of medical students' self-concept with their academic achievement. The study population was preclinical second year medical students. Study was carried out at one government and one non-government medical colleges in Dhaka. Sample size was 254 and sampling technique was purposive. The three dimensions of self concept: personal, family and social self-concept of medical students were assessed through 45- items questionnaire, which was answered on a five-point Likert scale. Data was collected by self administered structured questionnaire with Bengali version. Academic achievement data were measured by two term examinations marks of three subjects (Anatomy, Physiology & Biochemistry) based on written and oral examinations. Simple statistical tests were used to analyze the dominant dimension of student's self-concept. Inferential statistic such as ttest was used to analyze the difference between the self-concept and gender. Pearson correlations were used analyze the relationship between self-concept of students with their academic achievement. The participant's age ranged from 17 - 23 years with a mean of 19.8 and a standard deviation of 0.93. Among the respondents 47% were male and 53% were females. In term-I and term-II exams majority (66.9% and 66.1%) student were high achievers. The research finding showed that the dominant dimension of self concept was family self-concept (mean value was 53.73). Beside that, t-test analysis showed that there was significant difference between dimension of self-concept of students according to gender (p= 0.03, p= 0.02). Pearson correlations analysis showed that there was positive correlation between dimensions of self-concept with student's academic achievement. Study recommended to increase the student's self-concept in order to enhance their academic achievement. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bjme.v2i1.18131 Bangladesh Journal of Medical Education Vol.2(1) 2011: 10-13

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