The Voice of Student Assistants’ Time Management and Academic Performance: A Phenomenological Study
Keywords:
Challenges, Student Assistants, Time Management Action Plan, Husserlian Descriptive PhenomenologyAbstract
Student life now has been a rollercoaster journey, especially for the college students. It does not matter how often you go to school but how you can be able to get to school with financial instability. This leads college students to juggle work and study at the same time. This study explored the challenges in time management of student assistants that affect their academic performance in a Local City College. In terms of the impact of the challenges on the student assistants' academic performance, the challenges encountered by the student assistants in time management affect their academic performance towards formulating a Time Management and academic performance action plan based on the findings of the study. It utilized the Husserlian Descriptive Phenomenology, it is employed as a qualitative approach to gathering data through Individual Interviews. The survey questionnaire/ interview guide used is semi-structured and taken from the study of Inger Marie Halvorsrud Jaavall entitled "Quality of School Life for Working Students." A group of six (6) student assistants the informants, who spent 6-7 hours each day working in various offices on the school campus, were purposively selected and interviewed to check the time management challenges affecting their academic performance. During the course of the study, thematic analysis was employed to examine the responses that emerged. The results indicated that balancing work and study was considered difficult yet time management and prioritization were the keys to having good educational progress. The findings also revealed that student assistants faced a lot of challenges in managing their time since they had to prioritize their studies and at the same time doing their work responsibilities. Through balancing they have the time to do their school activities when they were vacant and make some paperwork in the office. This study suggested that student assistants should enhance their time management skills through planning their tasks and responsibilities effectively. As a result of the study, a time management action plan was recommended.
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