Is Time Pressure All Bad Analysis

David Ackerman and Barbara Gross, who are the authors of “Is Time Pressure All Bad? Measuring the Relationship between Free Time Availability and Student Performance and Perceptions”, talk about studies that were conducted to see how stress effected students with high amounts of free time and students with low amounts of free time. “Indeed, perceived time pressure can stimulate focused motivation, even an ‘adrenaline rush,’ and may lead to better time management and more intense and productive use of scarce time” (Ackerman and Barbara 2). During these studies, the experimenters found that the students with lower amounts of free time actually had a higher grade point average than ones who had higher amounts of free time. They found that the