Time Management and Academic Achievement: Examining the Roles of Prioritization, Procrastination and Socialization

Effective time management, encompassing prioritization, overcoming procrastination, and balancing socialization, is crucial for academic success as it enables students to optimize their productivity, focus on important tasks, and maintain a healthy work-life balance, leading to improved academic achievements. Thus, the present study tried to investigate the relationship between time management in terms of prioritization, procrastination, and socialization and academic achievement. Using validated, reliable and standardized questionnaire, the researchers surveyed 213 education students using simple random technique. The study utilized quantitative approach, non-experimental, descriptive-correlational techniques. The study used mean, standard deviation and correlational analysis to analyzed the data. Based on the findings, the overall level of time management is moderate. The level of academic achievement is very good. In the test of correlation, the finding revealed that time management shows insignificant association with academic achievement. Thus, the finding suggests that the effectiveness of time management techniques in terms of the ability to prioritize tasks, the tendency to procrastinate, and the level of socialization may not be strong predictors of academic success in this specific setting or population under in this present investigation.