ABSTRACT
Procrastination is a behavioral feature in which a person chooses to delay a task or a decision. Academic procrastination is the tendency to postpone school-related obligations despite known negative consequences. In this paper, we examine how procrastination manifests in online discussion forum participation in a university in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic. We visualize how high- and low-performing students differ in the rate at which they respond to discussion forum prompts. We also make use of association rule mining in order to determine which student behaviors are antecedents of procrastination. We find that most high-performing students tend to respond to discussion forum prompts much earlier than most low-performing students. This implies that they procrastinate less. We also found that making initial accesses or posts later or no graded posts at all makes the student at risk for poor performance. © ICCE 2022.All rights reserved.
ABSTRACT
From October to November 2020 the Philippines was struck by eight typhoons, two of which caused widespread flooding, utilities interruptions, property destruction, and loss of life. How did these severe weather conditions affect online learning participation of students pursuing their undergraduate and graduate studies in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic? We used CausalImpact analysis to explore September 2020 to January 2021 data collected from the Moodle Learning Management System data of one university in the Philippines. We found that overall student online participation was significantly negatively affected by typhoons. However, the effect on participation in Assignments and Quizzes were not significant. These findings suggested that students continued to invest their time and energy on activities that have a direct bearing on their final grades.