EFFECTS OF TIME MANAGEMENT ON CLASS SIZE, GLOBAL UTILISATION RATE AND STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study investigated the effects of time management on the
relationship between class size, global utilisation rate and students’
academic performance in public tertiary institutions in Lagos State. The
study adopted descriptive research design. Its population was the seven
conventional public tertiary institutions and the 4,221 academic staff
and 6,6452 students therein as at 2017/2018 academic session. The
sample sizes were 1,440 students and 360 academic staff after
disproportionately stratifying into faculties/schools and thereafter
selecting through the simple random technique. Six instruments were
used to collect data after ensuring their validity and establishing
reliability coefficients for two of them except for the Record
Observations Formats since the data sought were already in existence in
the institutions. The ‘Time Management Questionnaire for Lecturers
(TMQL)’ and ‘Time Management Questionnaire for Students (TMQS)’
were found reliable with 0.749 and 0.743 coefficients respectively using
the Cronbach’s Alpha test. Three null hypotheses formulated were
tested at 0.05 level of significance. One of the findings was that time
management has no significant moderating influence on the
relationship between class size, global utilisation rate and students’
academic performance in public tertiary institutions in Lagos State (R2 ?
= 0.014, F(1, 55) = 0.897, p = 0.348 > 0.05); there is no significant2 Effects of Time Management…
difference in class size, time management and global utilisation rate
between federal and state Government tertiary institutions in Lagos
State [t(df = 58) = -1.058; p > 0.05] and there is a significant difference in
class size, time management and global utilisation rate amongst
universities, polytechnics and colleges of education in Lagos State
(Lambda (3, 56) = 0.532, p < 0.05). It was concluded that the
relationship between class size, global utilisation rate and students’
academic performance was not moderated or influenced by time
management. The study recommended that academic staff should be
made to strictly adhere to time and day allocated to them on the
timetable by the management of their institution.