Time Management Towards Academic Achievement Uum Student

ABSTRACT

Time management is a crucial thing that needed by individual especially for students. It can affect their academic achievement. Therefore, the objective of the study is to investigate impact of time management towards student achievement. One hundred questions have been distributed to UUM students. Based on the survey there is a significant impact of time management towards academic achievement. While, there is no significant impact of academic achievement between genders. The last, there is no significant impact of academic achievement among ethnicity. The results show that the time management very crucial in determining the academic achievement of UUM students. Therefore, UUM should makes workshop about time management to realize students that time management is important for them.

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

1. Introduction

Time management is the thing that sometimes ignored by students, including the students in Universiti Utara Malaysia. The student assumes that time management has no effect on their academic achievement. This makes students become not optimal in order to maximize their academic process and it will have a negative impact on their academic value.

Based on this situation, we need the technique development to analyze the impact of time management towards UUM students for their academic achievement. This technique allows us to know what the impact of time management, whether is it good or bad. The study is expected to helps students in managing time wisely so that affects their academic performance and productivity. Poor time management will be able to hamper productivity and it’s not good for students' academic achievement. Thing that they can do and finish earlier will be undermined because of the bad time management and much or few it will have an impact towards their academic achievement and productivity.

All students need a good time management to be productive students. That’s why a good time management will help students to improve productivity. So that they will skilled to divide between their studying times, join the organization, and play or do some sports activities. In the end the skill of managing time can be used by students in order to enter the real work life.

1. Problem Statement

One of the main problems is most of the students cannot manage their time wisely, so that they don’t know what is their priority. Thus, time management affects to their academic achievement. Based on our research problem, then the specific factors in time management (IV) is formulated as bellows:

1. Does time management influence the students’ academic achievement?
2. By managing their time wisely, does it increase the students’ grades?
3. Can students in UUM manage their time by joined the activities that offered by the campus?

1. Research Objectives

The general objective of the study is to examine the impact of time management toward academic achievement among students in UUM. The specific objectives are:

1. To investigate the influence of time management towards academic achievement of students.
2. To determine the difference of academic achievement between genders.
3. To determine the difference of academic achievement among ethnicity.

1. Scope of the Study

The study focus on examining the time management level towards students’ academic achievement in three aspects which is includes the tangibility, reliability, and responsiveness. The population under study will be selected among UUM students. Therefore, the study findings will be generalized among UUM students only.

1. Relevance of the Study 

It is hope that the study findings will contribute in managing time towards improving the student academic achievement. By understanding the time management level among students, it may develop and further improve their academic achievement in the future.