Semester-level Spacing but Not Procrastination Affected Student Exam Performance

LAK. A learning-analytics study separating spacing from procrastination in semester-scale study behavior.

Authors: Iman YeckehZaare, Victoria Mulligan, Grace Ramstad, Paul Resnick · Venue/status: LAK · Year: 2022 · DOI

This LAK paper distinguishes studying across more days from studying earlier in the semester. It shows that spacing and procrastination are not simple opposites and that semester-level spacing is the more important signal for exam performance in the analyzed course context. The result informs adaptive learning design: a system should not only ask what a learner studied, but also track whether practice is distributed enough to matter.

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