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Digital nudging is gaining traction in the educational domain to guide students' decision‐making processes and achieve desirable learning outcomes through subtle changes in the digital learning environment. From the information science ...

Social media (SM) breaks from studying can either support students' wellbeing and performance by acting as a recovery behaviour or subvert it by acting as a procrastination behaviour. It is currently unclear which influences lead an SM break to be a ...

In our introductory computer science course at a large public university, we embarked on a transformative journey inspired by Grading for Equity. Our goal: to accommodate differential learning, allowing students to attain a fixed level of mastery, albeit ...

When students procrastinate on programming assignments, it can hinder the quality of their code and negatively impact their grades. In contrast, when students actively delay working on assignments to prepare to code (e.g., reading or seeking help), it ...

We analyze the impact of deadline policies on student submission timeliness and success in a self-paced online programming course. The course is for learning a second language (C) after Java or Python and assumes some knowledge of data structures. It ...

Information security is one of the most crucial considerations in digitising Oil and Gas (O&G) organisations. For ensuring information security policy compliance, O&G organisations enforce heavy security requirements. The purpose of this article is to ...

Inspired by Grading for Equity [1, 2], we embarked on an ambitious pilot for our introductory non-majors university course in the fall of 2022 (n=234) and spring of 2023 (n=107). We have six projects (five programming, one essay), and decided to remove ...

Procrastination, characterized by intentionally postponing tasks, pervades several life domains including academics and professional work. This habitual delay can lead to marked deterioration in performance and potentially harmful implications for ...

This paper explores redirection of activity as an intervention strategy for self-regulation online. We conducted an explorative study (N = 19) of the browser extension Aiki, which redirects a user from a self-defined ‘time-wasting’ website to an online ...

CatAlyst uses generative models to help workers’ progress by influencing their task engagement instead of directly contributing to their task outputs. It prompts distracted workers to resume their tasks by generating a continuation of their work and ...

Collaborative question generation and mapping by students has been shown to improve students' active (engaged) and meaningful learning. In implementing these methods into a course that enabled high levels of autonomy (as recommended by Self-determination ...

Course exercises are typically given so that the time it takes to finish them fits in the time constraints of the academic system. Exercises come with deadlines that are considered to help students plan their schedules and consequently help get the ...

Document-at-a-time (DaaT) and score-at-a-time (SaaT) query evaluation techniques are different approaches to top-k retrieval with inverted indexes. While modern systems are dominated by DaaT, the academic literature has seen decades of debate about the ...

University students have to manage complex and demanding schedules to keep up with coursework across multiple classes while navigating formative personal, cultural, and financial events. Procrastination, the act of deferring study effort until the task ...

Students frequently multitask with social media (SM) during self-study. Such social media multitasking (SMM) has the potential either to support wellbeing by acting as a recovery activity or subvert it by acting as a procrastination activity. It is ...

Spacing and procrastination are often thought of as opposites. It is possible, however, for a student to space their studying by doing something every day throughout the semester and still procrastinate by waiting until late in the semester to increase ...

How students are assessed has a powerful effect on their strategies for studying and their learning. When designing assessments, instructors should consider how different approaches for providing feedback to students could encourage positive learning ...

Capstone projects usually represent the most significant academic endeavor with which students have been involved. Time management tends to be one of the hurdles. On top, University students are prone to procrastinatory behavior. Inexperience and ...

Intuitively, it seems plausible that students who start their work earlier and work on more days than their peers should perform better in any course. But does the early bird really catch the worm? In this article, we examine introductory programming ...

Over six years we developed our first-year programming course, delivered through scheduled lectures and assessed by practical tests and a final examination, into a mastery learning-oriented course. In this study we provide an in-depth view of how ...