Congratulations to Dr. Mike Kane, who directs the I.D.E.A. Lab, and his collaborators on receiving one million dollars from the Institute of Education Sciences for a multi-site grant to conduct a classroom intervention study focusing on academic procrastination.
Academic procrastination is prevalent and associated with worse academic performance and higher psychological distress; however, no well-validated interventions for academic procrastination exist, especially those that can easily be implemented in classrooms. Through this project, the research team at University of Colorado Boulder, Brandeis University, UNC Chapel Hill, and UNC Greensboro will develop and test interventions for postsecondary academic procrastination. These interventions will focus on equipping students to circumvent two predicted causes of procrastination: (1) experiencing negative mood caused by aversion toward an academic task and (2) choosing an immediately pleasurable activity over the academic task.
The research team will work with the Terracotta platform team to implement and test their intervention within the Canvas learning management system. This study will take place at seven urban and suburban universities in Colorado, North Carolina, Nevada, New Mexico, and California. The research team will recruit a diverse sample of approximately 2,000 undergraduate students enrolled in large lecture-based psychology, biology, and chemistry classes to participate in this study. Outcomes of primary interest will be class assignment submission times in Canvas (an objective measure of procrastination, tracked by Terracotta), assignment and course grades, and measures of wellbeing (depression, anxiety, and perceived stress).
Congratulations!
