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1. Academic life
Topic question:
Why do the majority of CIFS students of WIUT
tend to procrastinate their Coursework?

2. Agenda :
Introduction
Literature review
Methodology
Result
Discussion
Conclusion
Recommendation
Reference list

3. Introduction:
Introducing the
topic and the topic
question.
Why do we chose
this topic?
Explanation of the
topic.

4. Literature review - Explanation
• Janssen (2015) –
Procrastination
tendency or habit,
“better time”
• Hussain and Sultan
(2010) – Regression
about missed
opportunities.
• Steel (2007) –
Factors,
phenomenon
growth.

5. Literature review – Reasons of procrastination
Grunschel, Patrzek,
Fries (2014) - 70% of
students delay their
academic tasks in
reason of more
enjoyable activities.
Sahin (2014) -
Сonnection between
procrastination and
Social media.
(Pychyl et al. 2000) -
TV, series,
communicating
with people.

6. Patrzeka, Sattlerb,
Veenb, Grunschela, Fries
(2014) – approaching
deadlines, psychological
pressure.
Ferrari (2004) –
Academic
misconduct
Reynolds (2015) –
Copying from the
Internet.
Groenewoud (2001)
– irresponsiveness
and careless
procrastinators.
Literature review - Consequences

7. Methodology
• 60 respondents from the CIFS
• Survey tool – Google Forms
• /

8. 50%
50%
Age of responders
17-18 19-21 21+
66.6 %
33,3 %
Gender of
responders
Male
Female

9. When the CIFS Students of WIUT start
preparing their CW
5%
50%
33%
12%
Immediately 3 weeks before 1 week before 2 days before the deadline

10. 65%
35%
Students' Difficulty of preparing the
coursework
Yes No

11. 35%
53.30%
11.70%
How many hours per day students devote to
abstract activities (not study)
1-3 hours 2-7 hours 8-15 hours

12. Activities that students distracted
by

13. 1%
25%
40%
34%
The number of hours spent on social
media by students
0 1-6 hours 7-14 hours more than 15 hours

14. Reasons of Students’ Procrastination

15. Discussion

16. Recommendation
As a solution of problems, researchers (Hooda and Saini, 2016) in their
study “Academic Procrastination; A Critical Issue for Consideration” highly
recommend to follow these points:
• Be aware of habits and thoughts that lead to procrastinating.
• Seek help for self-defeating problems such as fear, anxiety, difficulty in
concentrating poor time management indecisiveness and perfectionism.
• Set realistic goals and develop a personal positive link between the tasks
and the concrete meaningful goals.
• Restructure activities of daily life.