report on survey of teacher trainees

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Report On Survey of Teacher Trainees Time Management Skills

To : Editor of Time Magazine

From : Research and Development Department

Date : 17 August 2011

Introduction

This survey was conducted to find out the importance of time management to teacher

trainees in IPG Kampus Perempuan Melayu Melaka and their time management skills.

This report covers the objectives of the survey, background of respondents, data

analysis, findings, the necessary recommendations and finally the conclusions drawn.

Objectives of the Study

The main objective was to determine time management skills of teacher trainees. The

specific objectives were:

i) To find out the importance of time management and why it is important to

teacher trainees.

ii) To find out the time management skills of teacher trainees.

iii) To get some opinions from teacher trainees on how to manage their time

wisely.


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Background of Respondents

Since the aim was to determine the importance of time management to teacher

trainees, so teacher trainees from PPISMP Mathematics, PPISMP Pendidikan Islam,PPISMP Pendidikan Seni Visual and PPISMP Bahasa Inggeris were targeted.

Five teacher trainees from each unit were picked randomly to be involved as

respondents of this survey.

Data Analysis

The questionnaire consist open-ended and closed-ended questionnaire. The data

collected from the survey questionnaire was entered and analyzed using Microsoft

Word. After that, we used Microsoft Excel to analyze and present our data using bar

chart, pie chart, histogram and pictograph. It was chosen because it is the most used

package for analyzing survey data. It has the following advantages: it is user friendly

and can easily be used to analyze data.


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Findings

Figure 1: Pie Chart of how important is time management to teacher trainees

The pie chart shows how important is time management to teacher trainees from

all PPISMP units in IPG Kampus Perempuan Melayu Melaka. 90% of the teacher

trainees feel that the time management is very important to them whereas only 10% of

them feel that time management is somewhat important to them.

90%

10%

How Important Is Time Management To

Teacher Trainees

Very Important

Somewhat Important


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Figure 2: The cylinder chart of why is time management is important to teacher

trainees

The cylinder chart shows why time management is important to the teacher

trainees. 50% from all the PPISMP units think that time management is important

because it helps to set up their priorities. Secondly, 20% stated that the main reason

why time management is important is because it helps to reduce wasted time. Then,

15% of them think that time management enables them to do the right thing at the right

time while 10% think that time is limited. Lastly, 5% of teacher trainees feel that timemanagement helps to make conscious choices.

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

45%

50%

Help to set up

your priorities

Time is

limited Help to makeconscious

choices

Help to

reduce

wasted time

Enable you to

do the right

thing at the

right time

Percentage

The reasons

Why Is Time Management Important To Teacher

Trainees


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Figure 3: Horizontal bar chart of how serious teacher trainees time management

problems at college

The horizontal bar chart shows how serious do the teacher trainees consider

their time management problems at college. About 30% of the teacher trainees consider

their time management problems at college as very serious. Half of the teacher trainees

consider their time management problems as serious. 20% of them consider that their

time management problems are relatively minor.

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50%

Very serious

Serious

Relativey minor

Percentage

How Serious Teacher Trainees' Time

Management Problems At College


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Time Management

Tips

Always Sometimes Never

Plan out what needs

to be done each

week

Use a to-do list to

write things down

Prioritize your to-do

list

Spend the time doing

something more

valuable

Start a journal and

write down yourprogress for each

goal

Think before acting

Carry a small

notebook with you

represents 2 students

Figure 4: Pictograph of how often do teacher trainees practice time management tips


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From the pictograph above, it shows how often the teacher trainees practice time

management tips in their daily life. Firstly, 14 out of 20 teacher trainees sometimes plan

out what needs to be done each week. Next, five teacher trainees always plan out what

needs to be done each week while only one of them never do it. Secondly, the numbersof teacher trainees always use a to-do list to write things down and always think before

acting are 10 students respectively meanwhile the number of teacher trainees who

sometimes use to-do list to write things down and sometimes think before acting are

also 10 students respectively.

Moreover, 11 and 8 out of 20 teacher trainees always and sometimes prioritize

their to-do list respectively while only one of them never prioritize their to-do list. Then,

12 of the teacher trainees always spend time doing something more valuable whereas 8

of them sometimes spend time doing something more valuable. Besides, only one of

them starts a journal and writes down their progress for each goal. Furthermore, 13 of

them sometimes start a journal and write down their progress for each goal and 6 of

them never do it. Lastly, 7 out of 20 always carry a small notebook with them while 12 of

them sometimes carry a small notebook with them and only one of them never carry a

small notebook along.


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Recommendations and Suggestions

In order to manage time wisely, it is recommended that, teacher trainees should do a

timetable and follow it. Besides that, they can write down priority list and place it on the

table so that they can easily read and remember their prioritize. Next, the teacher

trainees should do the important work first and stop doing something that waste their

time. Last but not least, teacher trainees also can plan their weekly activities first.

Conclusions

From the above findings, it can be concluded that teacher trainees in IPG Kampus

Perempuan Melayu Melaka feel that the time management is very important to them.

Then, almost half of them have serious time management problems at college. Lastly,

almost more than half of them seldom practice time management tips in their daily life.

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