Below are the research journals that I used to help research about what time management is, how it impact college students, and why is it necessary for college students to use to be successful.
Fu, Y., Wang, Q., Wang, X., Zhong, H., Chen, J., Fei, H., Yao, Y., Xiao, Y., Li, W., & Li, N. (2025). Unlocking academic success: the impact of time management on college students' study engagement. BMC psychology, 13(1), 323. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02619-x
The Summary: This experiment examines the influence of time management on 1,100 college students attending an undergraduate program in Shandong Province from October through December 2023. Participants went through several questionnaires that ranged from (1) Adolescence Time Management Disposition Scale (ATMD), (2) phone dependency scale, (3) Utrecht work engagement scale-student (UWES-S), and finally the self-control scale (SCS). From questionnaires and surveys, researchers found that students with a positive association with self-control with mobile devices, studying, and management of time do increase their academic performance for the student.
Huang, K., Lee-Post, A., & Arnold, N. R. (2025). College students’ time management and effort regulation patterns, academic emotions, and performance in an asynchronous online class. Educational Technology & Society, 28(3), 352–368. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48827966
The Summary: In this experiment, the researchers randomly choose 300 undergraduate students at Southeastern U.S. University to investigate the correlation between college student's time management skills and self-regulation to the academic performance in a asynchronous undergraduate course. To gather the data, students did four self-reported surveys in (1) time management and effort regulation, (2) emotional state, (3) academic performance (final grades), and (4) LMS analytics. From the data, the researchers made a direct connection between student's ability to manage time effectively, their emotional state, and effort of regulation of their coursework in the online course. The researchers noted that individuals who managed their time effectively and were able to submit their work in early had a tendency to perform better than someone who turned it on time at the last minute. Finally the research provided implications that the student's behavior and emotional regulations has a direct impact to the student performance in their academics.
Josh Baker, Ryan Wennerlind, Stephanie Devine, & Mona Nasir-Tucktuck. (2019). The Use of Smart Technology on Improving Time Management of College Students with Intellectual/Developmental Disability. Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.13021/jipe.2019.2458
The Summary: In this experiment, researchers were examining the effectiveness of smart technology with helping post-secondary students with intellectual and development disabilities to developed time management skills while attending school. For this experiment, there were only three participants out a class of 10 in the PSE program. The students participated in a Model-Lead-Test ("I do, we do, you do" instructional design strategy) where the three participants first watched the TAs display the 26-step systematic script, next the participants complete the 26-step for alarms with the TAs, and finally the three students had to perform the 26-step system script for alarms by themselves. From the data, all three participants agree that it was easy to learn how to use the alarms, and two agree that it was beneficial to them with time management. The data concludes that there is a function relation between participants and the alarms for managing time was effective.
Kim, M. M., & Kutscher, E. L. (2021). College students with disabilities: Factors influencing growth in academic ability and confidence. Research in Higher Education, 62(3), 309-331.
The Summary: From this experiment, researchers were examining the importance of time management and self-regulation, and confidence in college students with disabilities in their learning experience. From gathering data from surveys that were sent to several universities across the United States, the researchers focused on analyzing how instructional support, accommodations for students, and the environment for learning impact the students' ability to self-regulate through time management. The findings indicate that the proper interventions and support services that create an inclusive learning environment lead to a positive impact for students to grow in their academics and build stronger confidence in their learning.
Wolters, C. A., & Brady, A. C. (2021). College Students’ Time Management: a Self-Regulated Learning Perspective. Educational Psychology Review, 33(4), 1319–1351. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-020-09519-z
The Summary: In this research experiment, the researchers were curious about the correlation between self-regulation, time management, and academic success. Researchers conducted empirical methods of self-regulated learning (SRL) and surveys to collect data from the students across several universities. Based on the evidence, the researchers were able to indicate there is a positive connection between self-regulation, time management, and academic success in the collegiate experience. There are some limitations that the researcher felt needed to be investigate such as adding other facets to the experiment to see if there are other outlying factors that needs to be identified, such as internal and external causes that could impact the effectiveness of academic success.