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EFFECTS OF TIME MANAGEMENT STUDY HABITS ON FIRST YEAR NURSING STUDENT PERFORMANCE IN SOCIOLOGY IN AKWA IBOM STATE SCHOOLS OF NURSING

ABSTRACT

Study habits are individual’s private learning tendencies which could results in high or low academic performance. This study investigated the effect of time management study habits on academic performance of first year nursing students in Sociology in nursing in schools of nursing, Akwa Ibom State. Two objectives were set for this study to: (i) determine the difference in the pretest – posttest academic performance in sociology of nursing students taught time management strategy with power point and those taught with expository strategy (ii) examine the difference in the pretest and posttest academic performance of urban and rural nursing students taught time management strategy with power point. The study adopted a quasi-experimental design using pretest & posttest non-randomized group design. Simple random sampling technique of balloting was used to select the students, numbering 220 first year nursing students, (118) from Immanuel General School of Nursing Eket and (102) from Central School Nursing Ikot Ekpene. The instrument used for this study was Performance Test on Sociology named Sociology Performance Test (SPT). The reliability was ascertained by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation, same yielded reliability coefficient of 0.83 making the instrument dependable. Analysis of mean, standard deviation and co-variance of data collected served as parameters for testing the hypotheses. The results exposed the pretest and posttest means of student taught time management using power point 22.64 and 62.63 with their respective standard deviation of 14.31 and 13.06. The result further presented the pretest and posttest means of student taught with expository strategy of 22.37 and 38.74 and their standard deviation of 7.68 and 10.50 respectively with mean difference of 23.62 between the two groups. The Study concluded that time management habits is required for high performance of nursing student in sociology. Time management study habit is recommended for learning in school of nursing to enhance excellent academic achievement.

Keywords: Time management, Study habits, Sociology, Academic performance, School location

EKPENYONG, Agnes U. DR (MRS) Ngozi P. OGBONNAYA , ABAKADA Ubong E. and ABAKADA Emem E.

WORLD ATLAS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EDUCATION & MANAGEMENT. VOL 8 NO 1