Students’ pressure, time
management and effective
learning
Purpose
- This paper aims to survey the status quo of the student pressure and the
relationship between their daily time management and their learning
outcomes in three different types of higher secondary schools at Shenyang, the
capital city of Liaoning Province in mainland China.
Design/methodology/approach
- An investigation was carried out in 14 higher secondary schools (HSS)
located in five districts of Shenyang. Both qualitative and quantitative
approaches were used, such as interviews and questionnaires.
Findings
- The important findings include: the students pressure sources in three
different types of higher secondary schools, the strongest pressure felt by
the HSS students in China was the pressure from
national college entrance examinations (NCEE), the rank orders of other
pressures were pressures from parents, from society, from others, from
schools, from teachers. The findings also include the relationship between student time management (time for sleep, time for
getting up, time spent at schools,
time for doing homework) and the students learning, the tests frequency in
different types of HSS, the relationship between the tests frequency and
student learning outcomes, etc.
Originality/value
- To survey the
HSS students’ pressure
causes, to explore
the relationship between
their time management and learning outcomes, to find out the effective learning
factors and strategies will benefit students, teachers and schools worldwide.
Keywords
Students, Time-based management, Secondary education, Learning, China Paper type Research paper
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