Investigation of time management skills of pre-service teachers in terms of various variables

Abstract

The study aimed to examine the time management skills of pre-service teachers in terms of various variables. The study is important in terms of both quantitative and qualitative data in terms of planning time, being aware of the importance of time and knowing their habits that will make them waste time and revealing what their attitudes are about it. The study group of the research consists of Turkish pre-service teachers. "Time Management Questionnaire" and three open-ended questions were used as data collection tools. The results of the study show that pre-service Turkish teachers' time management skills differ according to gender, academic gpa, daily smartphone use and daily book reading habits; there was no significant difference according to the grade variable. In the study, it was concluded that as the daily smartphone usage time of pre-service teachers increased, their time management skill scores decreased; as the daily book reading time increased, their time management skill scores increased. The qualitative findings of the study showed that the majority of the pre-service teachers made short or long term plans, were aware of the importance of time and its efficient use, and the habit that they thought spent too much of their time was the smartphone; quantitative findings showed that the pre-service teachers' time management was at the "medium" level. We believe that the results of the study on determining the situations of pre-service teachers regarding time management through quantitative and qualitative data will both contribute to the field and guide further studies.