%0 Conference Paper %1 10.1007/978-3-030-57717-9_5 %A Nikolayeva, Iryna %A Yessad, Amel %A Laforge, Bertrand %A Luengo, Vanda %B Addressing Global Challenges and Quality Education %C Cham %D 2020 %E Alario-Hoyos, Carlos %E Rodríguez-Triana, María Jesús %E Scheffel, Maren %E Arnedillo-Sánchez, Inmaculada %E Dennerlein, Sebastian Maximilian %I Springer International Publishing %K ectel2020 motivation nudge procrastination %P 60--73 %T Does an E-mail Reminder Intervention with Learning Analytics Reduce Procrastination in a Blended University Course? %X Procrastination is a widespread self-regulatory failure. It consists in voluntarily delaying work despite expecting to be worse-off the day after. Procrastination impacts students' performance and well-being. Therefore it is argued that universities could and should play a more active role in helping freshmen improve their time management. We designed an intervention to scaffold regular work for large university classes in a platform-independent, easily scalable, and transferable manner. Our intervention consisted in sending a weekly e-mail reminding to complete chapter quizzes. These quizzes were closing shortly after the end of the chapter. The content of the reminder e-mails varied across our five experimental groups to additionally include different types of personalised advice. We performed the intervention during one month on 1130 freshmen of a blended university course. We study whether regularly sending e-mails improves work regularity and final performance. We also study the impact the e-mail content on work regularity and performance. As a result, we show that simple e-mail reminders were able to improve regularity in filling quizzes, the total number of quizzes filled, and the progress in overall performance. We also show that e-mail content matters and that complex personalised advice was counter-productive in our intervention. %@ 978-3-030-57717-9

@inproceedings{10.1007/978-3-030-57717-9_5, abstract = {Procrastination is a widespread self-regulatory failure. It consists in voluntarily delaying work despite expecting to be worse-off the day after. Procrastination impacts students' performance and well-being. Therefore it is argued that universities could and should play a more active role in helping freshmen improve their time management. We designed an intervention to scaffold regular work for large university classes in a platform-independent, easily scalable, and transferable manner. Our intervention consisted in sending a weekly e-mail reminding to complete chapter quizzes. These quizzes were closing shortly after the end of the chapter. The content of the reminder e-mails varied across our five experimental groups to additionally include different types of personalised advice. We performed the intervention during one month on 1130 freshmen of a blended university course. We study whether regularly sending e-mails improves work regularity and final performance. We also study the impact the e-mail content on work regularity and performance. As a result, we show that simple e-mail reminders were able to improve regularity in filling quizzes, the total number of quizzes filled, and the progress in overall performance. We also show that e-mail content matters and that complex personalised advice was counter-productive in our intervention.}, added-at = {2020-09-16T18:32:46.000+0200}, address = {Cham}, author = {Nikolayeva, Iryna and Yessad, Amel and Laforge, Bertrand and Luengo, Vanda}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/23a1aabcd70831fc18319770bd9d31817/brusilovsky}, booktitle = {Addressing Global Challenges and Quality Education}, description = {Does an E-mail Reminder Intervention with Learning Analytics Reduce Procrastination in a Blended University Course? | SpringerLink}, editor = {Alario-Hoyos, Carlos and Rodr{\'i}guez-Triana, Mar{\'i}a Jes{\'u}s and Scheffel, Maren and Arnedillo-S{\'a}nchez, Inmaculada and Dennerlein, Sebastian Maximilian}, interhash = {4bba7cf687ca32a5f8dc917f54c8337e}, intrahash = {3a1aabcd70831fc18319770bd9d31817}, isbn = {978-3-030-57717-9}, keywords = {ectel2020 motivation nudge procrastination}, pages = {60--73}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, timestamp = {2020-09-16T18:32:46.000+0200}, title = {Does an E-mail Reminder Intervention with Learning Analytics Reduce Procrastination in a Blended University Course?}, year = 2020 }