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An Analysis for the Causes of the Academic Procrastination Behaviour

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Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2011)

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In general, the academic procrastination behaviour is a problem for many college students. A student procrastinates with regard to starting an assignment, and is unable to devote enough time to complete the assignment. As a result, there is a risk of a decrease in the quality of the assignment or of missing the deadline. This paper makes the hypothesis that procrastination is related to the following factors: (1) the difficulty of each assignment, (2) the student’s interest in the programming used and in each assignment, (3) the level of procrastination, and (4) the student’s understanding of the programming. This paper also performs a covariance structure analysis to confirm the relationships. According to the result of the analysis, there are also some problems in the analysis and in the model. In the future, we will improve the model and develop a system to prevent procrastination based on this model.

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  1. Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shinshu University, Japan

    Kousuke Muramatsu & Masaaki Niimura

  2. Department of Engineering, Shinshu University, Wakasato 4–17–1, Nagano City, Nagano, 380–8553, Japan

    Hisayoshi Kunimune

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  1. Institute of Integrated Sensor Systems, University of Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schroedinger-str. 12, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas König

  2. Knowledge-Based Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Kaiserslautern, P.O. Box 3049, 67653, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas Dengel

  3. School of Business, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Riggenbachstr. 16, 4600, Olten, Switzerland

    Knut Hinkelmann

  4. Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Sakai, 599-8531, Osaka, Japan

    Koichi Kise

  5. KES International, P.O. Box 2115, BN43 9AF, Shoreham-by-sea, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  6. University of South Australia, Adelaide, 5095, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Muramatsu, K., Kunimune, H., Niimura, M. (2011). An Analysis for the Causes of the Academic Procrastination Behaviour. In: König, A., Dengel, A., Hinkelmann, K., Kise, K., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6883. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23854-3_56

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