Saint Teresa School of

Talisay Inc.

Students who practice

Time Management in
STSTI: A Survey

Kate Agraviador
Durens Codera
 Table of Contents
Introduction ----------------------------------------------- 1

Abstract ----------------------------------------------- 2

Literature Review ----------------------------------------------- 3

Methodology ---------------------------------------------- 4

Results ---------------------------------------------- 5-9

Analysis ----------------------------------------------- 10-18

Conclusion ---------------------------------------------- 19

Recommendations ---------------------------------------------- 20-21

References ---------------------------------------------- 22

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 Introduction
According to Charles Darwin “A man who dares to waste one hour of
life has not discovered the Value of life”. He meant that the outcome of doing
time management helps us organizing a life plan and no more distraction that
might waste our time. By also planning our lives it allows us to accomplish
more in a shorter period of time, which leads to more free time, which lets us
take advantage of learning opportunities, lower your stress and helps you
focus.

This research process is kind of important to everyone especially

those students but not just students facing it but also workers even to those
people that having a good time travelling the whole world or those people
managing the house. We seek to know or gather some information to let people
gave their opinions to that matter. We can also make them realize how time
management is necessary to use it every day in our lives. In this generation,
people tend to just waste their time and energy to some unimportant things
and a lot of students having a hard time for not regulating their days. We
forgot to manage such things especially when we are being pressed to our
teachers or to those people around us. We feel stress in ourselves that made us
lazier than ever, we all felt that way. Gaining your trust to us so that you will
be motivated and be confident to what you want to do with your life. Having a
good life which it begins with a method or steps that you will follow in order to
maintain an organize life. This leads to more career success. We encourage
you through this research that you may understand and be motivated to do it.
It may not that simple but it could help you and pursue you to do things easily.

They are a lot of ways on how you manage things and by doing all of
those helping methods you will have a smooth flow of plans in your life. Having
this kind of personality who treasures time, they already experience happiness.
By that thing only it is the precious feeling that we rarely could ever get. As a
student also we felt that way, like when we finished all the given task and had
a lot of vacant time that may be used to congratulate yourself or treat yourself
for doing good even just a simple things. Encourage and control yourself from
temptations to get used and manage time easily.
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Abstract

This report researches and examines the importance of effective time

management for students at STSTI. The aim of this thesis is to find out how
the students are managing their time as they study and work at the same time.
How many students use time management to their daily lives? We come up
questions to the approved sites to use.

The research focuses on juniors and seniors students, on their views,

experiences and knowledge regarding the use of time management. The results
were gathered through a given a link or the survey that we prepared for the
students from STSTI and backgrounds. Furthermore, we also negotiate to every
president in each grade level to easily submit questions.

After making questions, there are 62 out 131 students answered our
survey. The results from the survey showed that these students find time
management to be an important tool in their academic life. Which means our
research has a positive come up that they realize it may serves as a tool which
allows a student to be fully involved in all activities equally and taking the
responsibility in making sure that the tasks are accomplished.
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Literature Review
In the relevant literature there are great number of academic studies
focusing on the relation between time management and academic
achievements. The related literature showed that the time management
attitude and skill levels of university students and the effects of these skills on
their academic achievement. The research revealed that a majority student
possesses moderate level time management skills and only a significantly small
Portion has high level time management skills (Yilmaz, Yoncalik & Bektaş,
2006). The literature revealed that the students’ time management skills affect
their academic achievement at a significant level and the skills are one of the
predictors of academic performance. The relevant literature suggested that
students should start to acquire time management senses on their own in their
primary school years by reading materials on the issue or via the framework of
psychological counseling and guidance studies applied in schools and adopt
effective time management attitudes and techniques to determine how and
where they spend their time (Lisa & Robert, 2008). The various group of
students who exploited time-saving proficiencies notably had rich academic
achievement. They accomplished those students who do not use time
saving techniques in their educational surrounding having significantly
lower academic as compared to results students who employ time-
management tactics have Journal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics
considerably higher achievement (Mercanlioglu, 2010).

To calculate the cumulative time spent working during a week, these

objects were also added. Time management practices have been proven to be
some of the top indicators toward achieving a high level of academic
success and performance. They not only influences on the achievement but
using time management techniques also serve only one reason meaning that
there are multipurpose fulfilled by time management (Fazal, 2012). Taking part
in proceedings and being engaged in other outside class activities, not
inevitably a job, but being energetic in institution also has a strong
correlation to reaching high academic achievements. Various studies showed
that time management practices serve for many purposes not only for
challenging performance of the students. Time management practices show the
way not only to a high level of academic performance, but to good physical
condition and lower levels of stress. The foremost purpose of the present study
was educational competency, using time managing techniques, test pressure,
and test proficiency (Faisal, Miqdadi, Abdulla & Mohammad, 2014).
Academic competence scores were established to some extent improved in
the current sample indicating that students found course material/content
encouraging and enjoying their classes.

Methodology
This research will mainly covered up the intentions to know the opinions
of the students if they are organize or very crucial to their time. The methods
used are as follows:

Making a questionnaire - to have valid and approved questions we search in

the internet for the possible questions and outcomes that may satisfy our plan.

Administer of the survey - the questionnaire is intended for students from

seventh grade to eleventh grade in school year 2018- 2019.

Distribution of the questionnaire - As for this, we negotiated with the president

in every grade level to let them answer the survey. Through providing the link
of the survey into their Facebook to made it easier for them to forward links to
every high school students.

Collection of data - We distributed the links for like 1 week ago. In the first
day we collected at least 30 students who answered the survey already. We
received a quite cooperation of the students which is a sign of positive flow for
this research. It’s is also because we students have so much time to spend on
our phones that’s why they answered right away.

Limitations – Our research will only talks about time management. We have
our limitations of questions so that students will not be so bored for answering
long questions. We tried to do some new changes that students will be
interested for our research.

Data analysis – Out of 131 students in STSTI, only 62 students who answered
our survey which is also a sign of positive reactions. It’s not too few or many
but it can creates a neutral come up.

Results
1. Are you busy?
a. Yeah I am. But I organized my time and make sure everything’s done.
b. Yeah. Quite busy. I have this and that but not everything is on the track.
Yeah Quite messy~!
c. Busy? Nearly submission I’m the busiest.

For the letter A there are 27 students that are busy but organize and as
for the letter B there are 34 students who are quite busy but everything is not
on track then for letter C only one student answered that he/she has a nearly
submission and the busiest.

2. Do you plan your time every day?

a. Yes
b. No

There are 41 students who gave a positive answer which is the yes and 21
students in favor of No.

3. I find myself dealing with interruptions.

a. Never
b. Sometimes
c. Often
d. Always
e. Very Often

For letter A there are only one student who answered it and also to letter E.
Letter B has 50 students who find themselves dealing with interruptions and 8
students are often interrupted for letter C. For letter D there are 2 students
who find themselves interrupted always.

4. Do you make lists of things to do in your head, rather than on paper?

a. Yes
b. No
For letter A there are 35 students answered yes and 27 students in favor
of No.
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5. When you are doing your task. What distract you the most?

This question will be answered freely with their honest opinion so what
we collected is that mostly of them answered cell phone for being the most
distractible thing when they are doing their task. Then others answered that
plainly because of the person who surrounds them at that time and some said
because of their love ones.

6. Are you often in a hurry while working/studying?

a. Yes
b. No
There are 38 students who are in favor of yes and 24 students who answered
No.

7. Do you tend to complete your assignments on time?

a. Yes
b. No
c. Sometimes

For letter A, there are 17 students who answered it and 6 students for letter
B and 39 of them answered letter C.

8. Do you think you always make last minutes work as you don’t realize that
you have spent so much time doing something wasted?
a. Nope, I keep on tracking what I’m doing.
b. I sometimes do last minute works because I am busy with something else.
Sometimes I spend my time doing nothing and I realize I have waste my time.
*sigh*
c. Last minute work is me

For letter A, there are 14 students who answered that they keep on tracking
of what they are doing and the 42 students answered letter B and for the letter
C, there are 6 students.

9. Have considerable difficulty making decisions?

a. Yes
b. No
c. Sometimes
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There are 17 students who answered the letter A and 7 students for letter
B and for the letter C, there are 38 students answered

10. Do you calculate how many hours you spend for entertainment?
Making a checklist of things will also helps you to utilize things, Have you ever
done this?
a. Yes, I do
b. should I do that?
c. Entertainment is my life

As for the letter A, there are 31 students answered and 24 students for letter
B and 7 students answered letter C.

11. Making a checklist of things will also helps you to utilize things, Have you
ever done this?
a. Yes
b. No

There are 38 students answered yes and 26 are in favor of No.

12. When you got home from school, what are you usually doing?
a. Playing with your cell phone
b. Do the assignments; project etc.

There are 29 students who does their assignment when they got home and
33 students are usually playing with their cell phone.

13. For you, having a lot of things to do. Will it help you in the near future? Yes
or no? Then why?

This question needs their honest opinion about it. We found out that most
of them answered yes mainly because as a student we need to experience this
kind of things so that in the future you know what to do. You will
professionally organize your time to do the given task on time. It will not a
burden to take a lot of stuff to do because when you are in high school you
improve and refrain yourself form doing wasted things.

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14. In your weekends, do you tend to finish things off?
a. Yes
b. No

There are 47 students who are in favor of yes and 15 students answered no.

15. If you feel pressured, are you still motivated to do your task?
a. Yes
b. No

For letter A, there are 43 students answered yes and only 18 students
answered letter B.

16. Do you know the amount of time you are spending on the various tasks
you do?
a. Never
b. Sometimes
c. Always

For letter A, there are 8 students that they never did that kind of thing and
45 students for the letter B and only 9 students answered letter C.

17. Do you stress about deadlines?

a. Never
b. Sometimes
c. Always

There are 4 students answered letter A, and letter B had 43 students and
15 students answered always.

18. When working on critical tasks how often does distractions interfere?
a. Never
b. Sometimes
c. Always

For the letter A, there are 6 students answered and 45 students who
answered that sometimes distractions interfere when they are working and 11
students answered letter C.

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19. Do you find yourself taking work home in order to complete it?
a. Never
b. Sometimes
c. Always
There are only 2 students never bring their work at home

20. How good is your time management (score it from 1-10) then explain why?

Most of the students scored themselves below 7 for being a person that
sometimes practices time management for daily basis.
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Analysis
1.

Figure 1: Students. And if they are, busy but organize, or the busiest.

In figure 1, we can see that about 54.8% of the 62 students, Mostly

students who responded to the question that they are busy and had a messy
job and only 43.5% of students are buys but they used their time manage to
organize things.

2.
Figure 2: Do High School students in STSTI plan their time every day.
In figure 2, there are about 66.1% of students answered yes.

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3.

Figure 3: Students find themselves dealing with interruptions.

As the figure 3 has shown, about 80.6% of the students are sometimes
dealing with interruptions.

4.

Figure 4: Do students in STSTI make list of things to do in their head, rather

than on paper.

In the figure 4, it shows that for about 56.5% of students answered yes.

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5.

Figure 5: Do students in STSTI often in a hurry while working/studying.

There are about 61.3% of students are often hurry as the figure 5 shown.

6.

Figure 6: Do students in STSTI complete their assignments on time.

In the figure 6, 62.9% of students tend to complete their assignments
sometimes.

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7.

Figure 7: Do students in STSTI always make last minute works and don’t
realize that they spent so much time doing something wasted.

In figure 7, it shown that 67.7% respond that they sometimes do last minute
because they are busy with something else and realize they wasted their time.

8.

Figure 8: Do High school students in STSTI considerable difficulty making

decisions.

In figure 8, it shows that there are 61.3% respond that they sometimes
considerable difficulty making decisions.
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9.

Figure 9: Do students in STSTI calculate their hours spend for entertainment.

There are about 50% of students respond yes as the figure 9 has shown.

10.

Figure 10: Do making a checklist of things will help Students in STSTI utilize
things, have they ever done this.

In the figure 10, it shows that 58.1% of students in STSTI respond that they
have done it.
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11.

Figure 11: What will usually the students in STSTI do when they got home
from school.

There are about 53.2% of students responded that they usually playing their
cell phone when they got home.

12.

Figure 12: Do students in STSTI finish things off in their weekends.

In the figure 12, for about 75.8% of students respond yes.
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13.

Figure 13: Do high school students in STSTI still motivated to do their task
even though they feel pressured.

There are about 69.4% of students still motivated to do things even if they feel
pressured.

14.

Figure 14: Do students in STSTI know the amount of time that are spending on
the various task they do.
As the figure 14 shown that for about 72.6% of students are sometimes
calculated the amount of time they are spending for various of task they do.
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15.

Figure 15: Do students in STSTI stress about deadlines.

In figure 15, it shows that 69.4% of students respond that they are sometimes
stressing about deadlines.

16.

Figure 16: Do high school students in STSTI working on critical tasks and how
often does distractions interfere.

There are about 72.6% respond that they sometimes the distractions interfere
when they are working on critical task.
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17.

Figure 17: Do students in STSTI find themselves taking work home in order to
complete it.

In figure 17, it shows that 69.4% of students find themselves sometimes taking
the task at home.

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 Conclusion
The data we have collected mostly gave us neutral answers. We can say
that the students here in STSTI use time management because it is part of our
daily basis. We plan as we woke up every day, as we eat or not, as we take a
bath or not. It’s actually part of our life that even though in small part of things
we are going to do we still have the plan and will to manage ourselves to be
able to do things in easy way. Some of the students in STSTI were so focused in
studying and were busy but still manage time properly. As a student, we really
had a lot of stuff that are given with our teachers but mostly of the students in
STSTI gives a big of time to complete it firstly.

Furthermore, Some of them said that they were a person who manages
time but because of stress and distractions that might leave things undone. We
usually had responses that they are mostly doe’s things when they are in good
mood to do. It’s a bad habit to continue that kind of habit for the students.
There are 62 responses out of 131 students in STSTI and they all lack of time
management. They just give time mostly for their entertainment. They were so
focused to their phone playing, watching, and chat someone up. Teenagers
today don’t know how to manage time preciously.

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 Recommendations
7 Time Management Tips for Students
by APSI Blog

Australian Professional Skills Institute encourages students to practice good

time management so they can study effectively and get the most out of their
studies with APSI. Here are 7 time management tips for students:

1. Eliminate distractions
Get rid of anything that distracts you and allows you to procrastinate from
your work. While you are studying or writing, turn off your phone’s ringtones
and vibrations and put it in a drawer where you won’t be tempted to answer
calls and messages. Allow yourself to check your phone only once per hour.
Get off Facebook, Messenger, Youtube and other distractions. Save them for
when you are relaxing.

2. Be focused at the task at hand

Have you ever been so focused and devoted to what you are doing that time
seems to have flown by? This mental state is called ‘flow’ – when you are
completely immersed and involved in an activity. Flow actually makes you feel
energized and motivated and increases enjoyment of the activity (not to
mention being super-productive). To achieve flow, find a challenge, develop
your skills, eliminate distractions, set aside enough time, set clear goals and
focus completely on the task at hand.

3. Use a calendar
A calendar is a great way to plan your day. It’ll be an easier way to schedule
your appointments and remember your obligations. It can also help you to
study in blocks and devote time to different subjects. Set up a calendar on your
phone or computer and ensure you stick to it. Factor in extra time in case an
activity takes longer than expected.

4. Use a checklist
A checklist is a great way to ensure you stay on task, by listing your tasks and
checking them off one by one once completed. It also gives you a sense of
accomplishment to tick off tasks when completed.

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5. Get organized
Once you have your calendar and checklist set up, you should be well on your
way to being better organized. Being organized will save you a lot of time and
allow you to allocate and manage your time better. Set up simple systems,
such as document filing.

6. Schedule rewards
You need to treat yourself when you do the right thing. Take a few minutes out
of every hour to take a break and do something you enjoy, like go for a walk or
watch some TV. The break will also allow your brain to relax and be more
productive when you return. However, whatever you do, make sure you don’t
overindulge until you have completed your tasks.

7. Get a good night’s sleep

A good night’s sleep is essential to make sure your body and mind is rested
and fresh for the next day. It can be hard to concentrate if you didn’t  get 7 to 8
hours of sleep in the night before. Pulling an all-nighter studying is less
productive then consistent study. Manage your time better by including sleep
in the schedule.

APSI hopes that with these 7 tips, you can improve your time management
skills and get the most out of your time, whether it be studying, playing or
living.

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References
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file:///C:/Users/CBCadz052/Downloads/learningguide-
writingaresearchreport.pdf

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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313768789_The_Impact_of_Time_
Management_on_the_Students'_Academic_Achievements

https://www.apsi.edu.au/7-time-management-tips-students/

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