Students' Time Allocation to School Activities and its Effect on Academic Performance in Senior High Schools

Abstract

The management and use of time is very important in ensuring student learning in schools. This paper reviews the time students in public senior high schools in the Northern Region of Ghana spent on academic and non-academic related activities and its influence on their academic achievement. Five hundred students were sampled from 7 public senior high schools to participate in the study. A combination of the cross-sectional survey and of documentary evidence was used. A questionnaire was used to collect data from the students. Analysis of the data was done using multiple regressions. The results suggest that the time students spent attending classes, group studies and self-studies have positive and significant influence on their academic performance. Class attendance; group studies and self-studies times are however complements instead of substitutes. It would be useful for students to have the opportunity to effectively manage their time in school and make use of academic school activities to improve their academic performance.