Effects Of Procrastination On Academic Performance

While the mentioned articles and studies may not directly be related, it is reasonable to make a few assumptions about procrastination from each of them that are true for all cases, despite the complexity of this topic.

Tice and Baumister’s research article shows solid evidence as to how procrastination may have negative effects on academic performance. Although this may seem to be a reasonable assumption to make, if their research is compared with research done in other articles, this is essentially only surface deep. Recall Hillary Green-Lerman’s article as well. The correlation between the the timeline the student gave themselves to do the assignments definitely had an effect on the score of their grades. While I did find these articles

For example, in Tuckman’s article his findings suggest that procrastination may only effect academic performance under certain circumstances, meaning there may be more to this topic than a simply “yes the student procrastinates” or “the student does not procrastinate.” Chu and Choi’s article followed the same positive trend. According to their research, procrastinators and non-procrastinators showed many of the same traits. Again, this is a clear representation of the idea that procrastination may be something that is just incorporated into a wide variety of other study habits because the students seems to find it

For some, procrastination is a study habit. Some may even describe it as a positive habit that helps their grade more than it hurts it. Procrastination potentially can act as a pressure inducer, causing the student to create much higher quality work than if they had gradually worked on it over time. This idea may not make sense to all, but this is a legitimate study technique for many students, as seen in my interviews. Limits must be known in order to use procrastination in a positive sense, which is why it is so commonly portrayed in an unfavorable way. Humans tend to take advantage of things that they shouldn’t, whether it be drugs, alcohol or something as simple as procrastination. It’s part of human