scholarly journals I’ll Go to the Library Later: The Relationship between Academic Procrastination and Library Anxiety

2000 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie ◽  
Qun G. Jiao
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Anxiety Reduction ◽  
Fear Of Failure ◽  
Academic Procrastination ◽  
Graduate Level ◽  
Academic Tasks ◽  
Library Anxiety ◽  
Term Papers ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Task

Approximately 95 percent of college students procrastinate on academic tasks such as writing term papers, studying for examinations, and keeping up with weekly reading assignments. At the graduate level, an estimated 60 percent of students procrastinate on academic tasks. Academic procrastination stems primarily from fear of failure and task aversiveness. It has been theorized, though not tested empirically, that highly anxious graduate students typically procrastinate while engaged in library-related tasks. This study investigated the relationship between academic procrastination and library anxiety at the graduate level. Participants included 135 graduate students enrolled in three sections of a required introductory-level educational research course. Findings revealed that, overall, academic procrastination was significantly positively related to the following dimensions of library anxiety: affective barriers, comfort with the library, and mechanical barriers. A canonical correlation analysis revealed that academic procrastination resulting from both fear of failure and task aversiveness was related significantly to barriers with staff, affective barriers, comfort with the library, and knowledge of the library. Implications for library anxiety reduction as a procrastination intervention are discussed.

The relationship between race and library anxiety among graduate students: A replication study

2006 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 843-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qun G. Jiao ◽  
Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie ◽  
Sharon L. Bostick
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Replication Study ◽  
Library Anxiety ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Uncovering Relationships between Task Understanding and Monitoring Proficiencies in Postsecondary Learners: Comparing Work Task and Learner as Statistical Units of Analyses

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivek Venkatesh ◽  
Kamran Shaikh
Keyword(s):  
Repeated Measures ◽  
College Level ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Academic Tasks ◽  
Multiple Choice Tests ◽  
Regulatory Processes ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
And Task ◽  
Task Understanding

Educational psychologists have researched the generality and specificity of metacognitive monitoring in the context of college-level multiple-choice tests, but fairly little is known as to how learners monitor their performance on more complex academic tasks. Even lesser is known about how monitoring proficiencies such as discrimination and bias might be related to key self-regulatory processes associated with task understanding. This quantitative study explores the relationship between monitoring proficiencies and task understanding in 39 adult learners tackling ill-structured writing tasks for a graduate “theories of e-learning” course. Using learner as unit of analysis, the generality of monitoring is confirmed through intra-measure correlation analyses while facets of its specificity stand out due to the absence of inter-measure correlations. Unsurprisingly, learner-based correlational and repeated measures analyses did not reveal how monitoring proficiencies and task understanding might be related. However, using essay as unit of analysis, ordinal and multinomial regressions reveal how monitoring influences different levels of task understanding. Results are interpreted not only in light of novel procedures undertaken in calculating performance prediction capability but also in the application of essay-based, intra-sample statistical analysis that reveal heretofore unseen relationships between academic self-regulatory constructs.

Students Perceptions Of Success In The Online Graduate-Level Classes: A Self-Directed Learning Perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pao-Nan Chou
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Public University ◽  
Graduate Level ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study is to examine the phenomenon of successful online learning, defined as a higher academic performance (A or 90) and to find if there is the evidence to confirm the role of self-directed learning in the online graduate-level courses. A qualitative method was used to analyze learners perceptions of online learning experiences. Six graduate students from an American public university participated in this study. The qualitative analysis yielded six major themes, which confirm the relationship between self-directed learning and academic performance.

Case Studies and Online Training Used to Enhance Engineering Ethics at the Undergraduate and Graduate Level

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian L. Vlcek ◽  
Eleanor Haynes
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Engineering Ethics ◽  
Online Training ◽  
Academic Misconduct ◽  
Graduate Level ◽  
Written Responses ◽  
Term Papers

In a progressively materialistic and relativistic society, professional engineering ethics has become an increasingly important safeguard, but remains neglected in most formal engineering education. In response, at our university ethics content has been implemented and measured in both an undergraduate and graduate engineering course as a trial for further implementation across the university. In a senior-level seminar course, instructional emphasis was placed upon ethics in general, and engineering case studies readings reinforced with written responses were used to more effectively impart discipline specific knowledge. Other written activities such as current event articles and term papers with ethical content were implemented to promote higher level cognitive reasoning skills Students were surveyed at the end of the course and submitted work analyzed using a rubric to assess learning. On senior exit surveys, program graduates identified a 17.1 increase from 2009 to 2011 in their ability to understand professional, ethical and social responsibilities-this timeline was concurrent with the sited changes in the seminar course. For the graduates, emphasis was placed upon ethics with regards to research. An online series of training modules that meets the NSF minimum content as expressed by the COMPETES Act was used in the graduate course to supplement instructor lectures. In the case of the graduate learning experience, a pre and post training survey was conducted to determine changes in knowledge and understanding as a result of ethical training. On a pre-survey, forty-eight percent of the graduate students demonstrated a lack of understanding with regards to ethical issues relating to authorship. Fifty-two percent of graduate students pretested also incorrectly responded that a conflict of interest was always an issue of academic misconduct. These misconceptions were minimized by the end of the online training. Additionally, embedding profession ethics content into a senior-level seminar course has contributed significantly to satisfying our ABET learning outcomes and program objectives, while the graduate-level training has begun a fundamental change in the ethical culture of our graduate student researchers.

scholarly journals ABSTRACT INTELLIGENCE OF GRADUATE STUDENTS IN RELATION TO THEIR RISK TAKING BEHAVIOUR

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (37) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunita Arya ◽  
Parmod Kumar
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Graduate Level ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Relationship

The study was conducted to determine the relationship between abstract intelligence of graduate students in relation to their risk taking behaviour. The participants were 600 degree college students of Haryana state studying in different streams viz. Art, Science, Commerce, Pharmacy and Education. Cattell and Cattell Culture Fair (Free) intelligence Scale by Kapoor, Rao and Singh. {Scale III(CFIS-III)} for measuring abstract intelligence and Risk Taking Questionnaire (RTQ) by V.N.Sinha and P.N.Arora were used for the study. Mean, Standard Deviation and ‘z’ test were used for compare the values among different groups. The result of the study shows that the male students were significantly differ in abstract intelligence than the female students studying at graduate level while the male and female students studying in professional courses at graduate level does not differ in abstract intelligence whereas male male students were significantly differ in abstract intelligence than the female students studying in non professional courses at graduate level

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