Degree Project

WHAT: 97% of contemporary college students have procrastination. 100% of international students have procrastination. WHERE: the UK WHEN: Contemporary WHO: Chinese overseas students studying in the UK WHY: In the book "It's about time!: the six styles of procrastination and how to overcome them", Sapadin and Maguire (1996) mentioned that there are six types of procrastination, namely the Worrier, the perfectionist, the over-doer, the crisis maker, the dreamer and the defier. HOW: Help the audience solves the procrastination and complete the homework before DDL. Bibliography： Sapadin, L., & Maguire, J. (1996). It's about time!: the six styles of procrastination and how to overcome them . Viking Pr.

I selected out of 3 ideas and finally decided to do the third idea ‘procrastination’ Mobile Application project development Who to help and what to solve？ to help Chinese international students complete their homework while procrastinating happily. The reason I decided to do this project is that it can alleviate or solve the main problem of contemporary international students, and this problem has been surrounding me for a long time. Difficulties that may be encountered in the project The coding part will be a challenge for me How many functions need to be designed Because of the epidemic, face-to-face interviews are not possible, and there may be errors in online information

  Professional Development for Cooperative Learning: Issues and Approaches This book describes approaches to professional development for cooperative learning and how the use of cooperative learning for teacher learning is leading to new insights into professional growth in schools. With the help of this project, the author believes that forming a study group to study cooperatively can improve the quality of the course. The Art of Procrastination This is precisely one of the points of “The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing,” “Structured procrastinators get more done. Priorities may not be their focus, but they are still accomplishing things.”—John Perry The theory in the book can be applied to my project concept He suggests we stop beating ourselves up for delaying work and recognize that by procrastinating one task, we’re still accomplishing others. First up is task triage, or prioritizing things to do by urgency. He also suggests u...

  This chart shows the psychological process when the student receives the assignment the task to the deadline. project：Think that there is plenty of time play：other things are more important , don’t realize the seriousness panic: Suddenly feel the pressure when the task is close to the deadline fighting with project：Work hard and compulsively complete tasks deadline：Regret, although it is done, but not confident Bibliography： Brief Book.（ 2016）. My procrastination is caused by perfectionism? . [online] Available at <https://www.jianshu.com/p/e2b7940c69e9> [Accessed 3 January 2021].

  Why I will not continue to develop this idea？ When I using pet eggs, it can only ensure that users do not play with mobile phones, but it does not really solve the problem of procrastination. user journey —— concept 2 reflective Successfully completed user journey                             😕                       😀                       😎😎                         😀 The user journey of a failed mission 😕 😁😁 😩😶 😞😞😞

Contemporary Chinese international University students with procrastination. Procrastination has become an epidemic on a global scale. More than 70% of universities are living with procrastination, and 50% of students report that procrastination has become a habit (People.cn, 2017). People.cn. (2017). 1 billion people worldwide may suffer from procrastination [Online] Available URL: <http://sd.people.com.cn/n2/2017/0308/c172848-29820068.html> [Accessed on 14 November,2020].

Procrastination is a phenomenon that people have been with humans since at least the time of Cicero. —— Steel, P. 2007 Research issues ： How to help people solve procrastination? Procrastination is a prevalent and pernicious form of self-regulatory failure that is not entirely understood. Hence, the relevant conceptual, theoretical, and empirical work is reviewed, drawing upon correlational, experimental, and qualitative findings. A meta-analysis of procrastination's possible causes and effects, based on 691 correlations, reveals that neuroticism, rebelliousness, and sensation seeking show only a weak connection. Strong and consistent predictors of procrastination were task aversiveness, task delay, self-efficacy, and impulsiveness, as well as conscientiousness and its facets of self-control, distractibility, organization, and achievement motivation.  Bibliography： Steel, P. (2007). The nature of procrastination: A meta-analytic and theoretical review of quintessential self-regulat...

My third idea is based on the second idea. The third idea is to be the final idea of my degree project. inspiration I am a student with procrastination. I often start writing homework a few days before the DDL, and even when it comes to the DDL, I haven't finished my homework. Before I do my homework, I plan my daily workload, but I still delay my homework until the last few days. I asked my friends and found that they have similar situations to me. Therefore, I want to know the reason for my procrastination and help people similar to me solve the problem. I made the following one-month project time table, it shows my psychological process from the start of the homework to the deadline. I discovered that people around me also have the same problem. After research, I found that it was actually caused by procrastination. So I would like to design an app for university students. In the process of constantly searching for information, I found that the group of international students al...

This is my project idea development The pet egg function can help users make a learning plan and feel interesting and not boring. There will be a pet egg in the app as a reward for completing each learning plan to motivate users to complete the next plan and complete each due time point on time, The pet egg will grow gradually, if it is not completed or not completed on time, the pet egg will not change or die.                              These are some original drafts.        User's login and registration page and set the plan page.                      Users can choose to set the scheduled time.                    Complete a small plan in each plan to get a pet egg.                 As users complete the pet eggs will gradually grow.     ...

My third idea is actually my idea a long time ago, which is to design a time management  app or web. This idea is inspired by myself because  I can’t plan my time reasonably. I have procrastination I can't make a decision Inefficient The solution starts from my own.  I like to use the time application. The brief application will let me continue to use it for a long period of time. But a single user interface will make me lose interest. I need an app that helps me stop delaying my homework. Help me alleviate the symptoms of procrastination