Influence of Students’ Time Management Practices on Academic Performance and Self-Efficacy in Kenyan Higher Education Institutions

Abstract

Students’ better performance, satisfaction and self-efficacy in academics depends on their time management in university settings. Poor study time management leads to poor examination results, prolonged course completion, and money wastage. Such students, engage in alcoholism, sexual-ism and misuse of drugs.  The purpose of this study was to carry out a rigorous Meta-analysis on university students’ Time Management Strategy Frameworks and the impact this has on their satisfaction, self-efficacy and academic performance. The study which covered the years 2004 and 2025 extensively synthesized results obtained from a randomly and non-randomly controlled intervention studies. The main objective was to establish the academic performance of students, self-efficacy and satisfaction in their studies. Online databases such as Web of Science, ERIC, PsycINFO and Academic repositories were used in collecting data whose analyses revealed a significantly nuanced enhancements across students’ personal and academic developmental dimensions. The study confirms that time management interventions in universities are beneficial to students and therefore recommends that further research, for example, on goal setting and study strategies, be done on the synergy between time management and other academic skills so as to amplify their efficacy.