The Cause and Effect of the Delay of Submission of Requirements of USANT High School Students (Chapter 1 and 2)
Chapter I
THE PROBLEM
INTRODUCTION Students have different goals in school. One of the major goals of students is to develop their skills and competence and to eventually graduate. To achieve this goal, students must meet the requirements given to them by their teachers. With the number of subjects undertaken by the students, submitting the needed requirements is a big challenge to them. "As students, you're always being pushed out of your depths—that's what learning is." says procrastination researcher and Carleton University psychology professor Timothy A. Pychyl, PhD. Due to the stress that students experience, they tend to laze off and delay the submission of the given tasks to them. They are more likely to neglect doing prioritized tasks if there are options available that are immediately pleasurable. These options are temptations that often distract us to what we need to accomplish. A lot of students nowadays are guilty of doing tasks in the last minute even if they were given a long duration of time to finish it. The cause of this is behavior varies. Some find the given task difficult and stressful, some find it boring while some are too pressured on doing the task perfectly that they spend a long period of time finishing their work. Procrastination is normal for everyone, what students and other people should be concerned about is how to lessen it.
The effect of this kind of behavior in the students’ grades is evident. Students’ requirements done in rush are usually unfinished and not presentable, thus, resulting to lower grades. Frustration and stress is the often outcome of this. Because of this, students often make false promises to themselves that it will not happen again but will still continue if the situation arises again. This is a tough habit to break with the abundant distractions around us. Students’ opportunities to prove themselves worthy of a high grade is hindered because of submitting a rushed output when they can make a better
THE PROBLEM
INTRODUCTION Students have different goals in school. One of the major goals of students is to develop their skills and competence and to eventually graduate. To achieve this goal, students must meet the requirements given to them by their teachers. With the number of subjects undertaken by the students, submitting the needed requirements is a big challenge to them. "As students, you're always being pushed out of your depths—that's what learning is." says procrastination researcher and Carleton University psychology professor Timothy A. Pychyl, PhD. Due to the stress that students experience, they tend to laze off and delay the submission of the given tasks to them. They are more likely to neglect doing prioritized tasks if there are options available that are immediately pleasurable. These options are temptations that often distract us to what we need to accomplish. A lot of students nowadays are guilty of doing tasks in the last minute even if they were given a long duration of time to finish it. The cause of this is behavior varies. Some find the given task difficult and stressful, some find it boring while some are too pressured on doing the task perfectly that they spend a long period of time finishing their work. Procrastination is normal for everyone, what students and other people should be concerned about is how to lessen it.
The effect of this kind of behavior in the students’ grades is evident. Students’ requirements done in rush are usually unfinished and not presentable, thus, resulting to lower grades. Frustration and stress is the often outcome of this. Because of this, students often make false promises to themselves that it will not happen again but will still continue if the situation arises again. This is a tough habit to break with the abundant distractions around us. Students’ opportunities to prove themselves worthy of a high grade is hindered because of submitting a rushed output when they can make a better