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Influence that extracurricular activities have on high school students’ ability of the
organisation

Katarina Kovačević
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INTRODUCTION

Free time activities can be structured (organized
extracurricular activities and trainings) and nonstructured
(leisure). In this research term „free time“ refers only to
nonstructured activities. Properly, young people think
about free time as a period when they do not have any
obligations.
Some theorists think that one of the best ways of
developing identity is taking part in etracurricular
activities. Well organized time helps in improving
childrens’ behaviour and school grades.
First hypothesis in this research is that students who have Graph2. Correlation between organisation and grades;
more obligations are better organized. This way of
spending time demands planning with intention to achieve Although there is no correlation between grades and
everything. Second hypothesis is that organized students busyness or grades and organisation, we can see that the
have better grades because they do everything on time. best students have the highest level of organisation. There
is no statistically important correlation in organisation
between sexes, but males are slightly better organised.
METHODS

In this research we have used questionnaire from two parts CONCLUSION
that 120 respondents have filled. Respondents were
students from XIV, III ans Sveti Sava grammar school. This research has shown that who have more obligations
Question in the first part refered to ability of the are better organized and this confirms our first hypothesis.
organisation and students have circled the numbers from 1 Quality time spending in planned activities has a better
to 5 answering how much certain claim refered to them. In influence on students than the time. Also, it was proven
the second part students have written the number of hours that the best students have the highest level of
they weekly spent on named activities. We have used organisation, which can be explained with the fact they do
SPSS for the analysis. everything on time because they know how to use it. This
confirms the second hypothesis.
RESULTS

LITERATURE

Ivačić, I., Sabo, J. (2010), Izvannastavne aktivnosti i njihov
utjecaj na učenikovo slobodno vrijeme ,Zadar:Filozofski
fakultet.
Videnović, M., Pešić, J. & Plut, D.(2010), Young People’s
Leisure Time:Gender Differences, Beograd:Filozofski
fakultet.
Pešić, J., Videnović, M. & Plut, D (2013), Obrazovne
aktivnosti srednjoškolaca u Srbiji:Analiza vremenskog
dnevnika, Beograd:Zbornik instituta za pedagoška
istraživanja.

Graph2. Correlation between busyness and organisation;

Analysing data with Pierson test we dicovered the
correlation between hours students spend on activities
(busyness) and their ability of the organisation (value is
0.009<0.05). We can see on the graph1 that the bigger is
busyness, the bigger is ability of the organisation.