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Wambach, Cathrine; Brothen, Thomas – Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 2001
Examines the performance of four developmental students in a psychology class, each of whom demonstrated a specific type of procrastination: (1) avoidance; (2) arousal; (3) fear of failure; and (4) disorganized or rebellious. States that students were alike in their tendency to postpone work, but they varied in levels of anxiety, timing of work,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Self Management, Student Behavior, Student Characteristics
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Brothen, Thomas; Bazzarre, M. Elizabeth – Learning Assistance Review, 1998
Examines the effectiveness of a personalized learning assistance intervention to overcome developmental students' procrastination in a computer-based introductory psychology course taught with the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI). An evaluation of the intervention suggests that it was effective in getting the procrastinating students to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Developmental Studies Programs, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness