Effect of Time Management Training on Academic Task Procrastination of Secondary School Students in Onitsha Local Government Area of Anambra State

Procrastination is a behavioural condition that causes major scholastic difficulties for all people, particularly students and teachers in a school setting. This study investigated the effect of time management training on academic task procrastination of secondary school students in Onitsha North local government area of Anambra State. Two research questions guided the study while two null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Quasi experimental non-randomized pre-test and post-test, control group design was used for the study. Sample size of 580, SS 11 and J.SS 11, male and female secondary school students were purposively drawn from seven co-educational secondary schools with population size of 3550. The instrument for data collection was TuckmanPprocrastination Scale (TPS). Mean was used to answer the research Questions while Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used in testing the null hypotheses. Findings of the study revealed among others that time management training was effective in reducing academic task procrastination among secondary school students. The study further showed that the effect of time management training on academic task procrastination was significant. Based on the findings, of the study, the following recommendations were made, among others: that guidance counsellor should start early to adopt the use of time management training in the reduction of academic task procrastination of secondary school students. Practicing counsellors should also make use of the time management training in counselling students towards reducing their academic task procrastination