THE EFFECT OF STUDY AND TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS OF UGIV HAUSA EDUCATION STUDENTS

THE EFFECT OF STUDY AND TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS OF UGIV HAUSA EDUCATION STUDENTS

 ABSTRACT

The research study investigated and identified the effects of study and time management skills of UG IV Hausa Education Students of Usmanu Danfodiyo

University Sokoto. A self developed questionnaire was used as the instrument for data collection. It was found that lack of proper time management is one of the problems affecting their study. It was suggested that at the start of a semester, students should get an overview of the weeks ahead by noting down lectures, presentations, exams, assignments and due dates as well as their other commitments outside the University. By doing this, they can see where there is peak pressure on their time and enable them to plan what needs to be done and when.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page

Certification

Dedication

Acknowledgment

Table of content

Abstract

CHAPTER ONE

1.0    Introduction

1.1   Background of Study

1.2   Statement of Problems

1.3   Research Objectives

1.4   Research Question

1.5   Research Hypothesis   

1.6   Scope of Study

1.7   Significance of study

1.8   Limitation of study

1.9   Definition of terms

CHAPTER TWO

2.0   Literature Review

CHAPTER THREE

3.0   Research methodology

3.1   Research Design

3.2   Population of study

3.3   Sampling Design and Procedure

3.4   Data Collection Instrument

3.5   Administration of Data Collection Instrument

3.6   Methods of data analysis

CHAPTER FOUR

4.0   Data Presentation and Analysis

4.1   Data Presentation  

4.2   Test of Hypothesis 

CHAPTER FIVE

5.0   Summary, Conclusion and Recommendation

5.1   Summary

5.2   Conclusion

5.3    Recommendation

References

Questionnaire

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION

Background to the study

Hausa is the largest and dominate language in northern Nigeria. Education is the process of teaching or learning, especially in a school or college. The educational journey from pre-school to high school can be quite challenging. In pre-school and elementary school, students often receive individualized instruction from teachers during the learning process. In addition, pupils may spend several periods each day with the same teacher and classmates.

However, in the middle school, students are likely to become mobile as they move from class to class to take courses from teachers in specialized areas. High school offers even more challenges. Students are actively engaged in determining which courses they take. Their courses are taught by different teachers and the students in their classes change from period to period. In this environment, students must make too rapid adjustments. First, they must become comfortable and efficient with the greater autonomy and responsibility presented by large and often impersonal high schools (Ford, Obiakor, and Patton, 1995). Second, they must adjust to a wide array of teaching styles, instructional techniques. Study Skills are strategies and techniques that enables you to make the most efficient use of your time, resources, and academic potential. Developing and improving your study

skills can help you. It should be noted that study skills and time management can help in this regard to the development and progress of the language into high position of recognition, be it in writing books, papers, and pamphlets e.t.c.

This study is based on the fact that a lot of issues have been raised on the effects of study and time management. It is very clear that the need of good and efficient study orientation skills is a compulsory element to the students. They will encounter so many problems in their study due to the different needs of study skills and learning system (William, 2005; Kimberly, 2004). The student’s task in overcoming their study difficulties is a need to adapt and adopt a new academic and social environment. The number of problems in UG IV Hausa Education Students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto are large; some occur due to poor consultation among themselves. With the above mentioned problem of UG IV Hausa Education Students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, it is expected that, this study will give the way out which will help UG IV Hausa Education Students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto.

Statement of the Problem

It needs to be made clear that the need of good and efficient study orientation is a compulsory element to the students. William (2005) opined that students will encounter so many problems in their study due to the different needs of study skills and time management. The student’s task in

overcoming their study difficulties is a need that entails to adapting or adopting a new academic and social environment. Katherine (2003) states that the obvious problem faced by these secondary school students when the study in the university or during their first year study is adapting to the way of study. This is related to study skills parameters such as note taking during listening to lecture, assignment writing skills, library skills, examination skills, effective study techniques and academic background. Students will identify what time management is, how it can be used in their role as a student and some tools to help them implement time management. It is in recognition to the fact that writing in the aspect of study and time management skills is very scarce, their this research is embarked upon in order find one the effects of study and time management skills of UG IV Hausa Education Students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto in order to increase the body of knowledge in the area.

Objectives of the Study

The aim of this research is to find out the effects of study and time management skills of UG IV Hausa Education Students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto. The study specifically concern with the following objectives:

1. To determine the effectiveness of the study and Time management skills of UG IV Hausa Education Student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto.

2. To find out the relationship between effects of study skills and time management skills of UG IV Hausa Education Students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto.

3. To find out how UG IV Hausa Education Students manage their time and balance their academic studies with other aspects of their life of UG IV Hausa Education Students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto..

4. To find out how UG IV Hausa Education Students can prepare for and take examinations of UG IV Hausa Education Students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto.

5. To provide solutions to the problem of time wasting in UG IV Hausa Education Students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto.

Research Questions

1. What is the effectiveness of study and time management skills for UG IV Hausa Education Students?

2. What is the relationship between effects of study and time management skills for UG IV Hausa Education Students?

3. In what ways does UG IV Hausa Education Students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto prepare for and take examinations?

4. How does UG IV Hausa Education Students manage their academic studies with other aspects of their life?

5. How can this study provide solutions to the problem of time wastage by UG IV Hausa Education Students of the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto?

Significance of the Study

This research is significant because study and time management have been neglected. This study will therefore add knowledge to the body of information on this topic. It is hoped other students and researchers would find information in this study very beneficial.

This study is hoped to be beneficial because it will reduce the effects of study and time management skills within course mates. This study, therefore, will contribute in no small measure to the research of students’ towards addressing the issues of time management skills of various types of undergraduate students.

This study will help Students to identify what time management is, how it can be used in their roles as students and what tools they will use to help them implement the time management.

Scope and Delimitations of the Study

This study is set out to investigate the effects of study and time management skills of the undergraduate Hausa Education Students of the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto. The study is to be restricted to the study of time and management skills of the undergraduate UG IV Hausa Education Students of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto. The study is not concerned with any other level of Hausa Education Students but UG IV and is not concerned with any other course of any level.

Operational Definitions of Terms

The followings definitions here are defined operationally:-

Effective: This means to be Successful in producing a strong or favorable impression on people.

Study: Application of the mind to the acquisition of knowledge through reading, investigation or reflection.

Time: It is a limited period during which an action, process, or condition exists or take place. It is a period that you need for a particular activity to be accomplished.

Management: It is the organizing and controlling of the affairs of a business or a sector of a business.

Skill: The ability to do something well or expertise to do a particular task.

UG: This refers to undergraduate; it is used here to refer to a university or

college student who has not yet taken a first degree, especially a bachelor’s degree.

Education: The imparting and acquiring of knowledge through teaching and learning, especially at a school or similar institution.

Pre-school: This is a planned educational program for children before entering primary school usually aged between 3 to 5 years before a child is strong enough to go to school.

Middle school: This is the transitional period between elementary school and high school or a school for children from about 9 to 13 years old.

High school: The names of schools for children aged from 11 to 18 years old. Hausa: The chadic language of Hausa, spoken by some 300 million people, mainly in Nigeria and Niger, and used as a lingua franca in parts of west Africa.