A Systematic Review of Interventions to Reduce Academic Procrastination and Implications for Instructor-based Classroom Interventions

How undergraduate students learn: uncovering interrelationships between factors that support self-regulated learning and strategy use

“…For instance, cramming is commonly used by students who are prone to procrastination (Kornell, 2009). Thus, it might be that students who avoid procrastinating and manage their time well may use spacing, while students who procrastinate and have poor time management may engage in cramming (for a recent review of procrastination interventions and discussions on how procrastination could be reduced in learning settings, see Turner & Hodis, 2023). That is, although on average spacing and cramming were endorsed about equally often, there might be individual differences at play here, with some students endorsing more spacing and less cramming and the reverse being true of other students.…”