Dr. Michael Kane and Dr. Paul Silvia, both Professors in the Department of Psychology, are UNCG Co-PIs on a new collaborative project funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences. The project, A Multipronged Approach to Small-Teaching Interventions for Reducing Academic Procrastination: A Randomized Control Study via Terracotta, is led by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Read about this grant on the IES website or check out the abstract below.
Abstract
Through this project, the research team 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. 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. The research team will work with the Terracotta platform team to implement and test their intervention within the Canvas learning management system (LMS).
For more info about Dr. Kane’s research, visit his website.
For more info about Dr. Silvia’s research, visit his website.
