I will be writing Assignment one for professor Burrows, who is teaching Chemical Engineering Lab One. This assignment is required in order to be successful not only in the class, but also for future publications I might want to pursue. I plan on completing the all tasks required at least a couple days before the deadline in order to avoid any difficulties, as well as revisions. I personally, have a tendency to procrastinate on most assignments, because I have always been able to meet deadlines. The reason I am taking such a proactive approach in this class is because I have been warned by many former students to avoid procrastinating at all cost if I desire to do well. While this terrible weakness will play a large role throughout the semester, I also have plenty of strengths, which I will utilize. One such strength is my determination. If I learned anything from my time in the military, it was to be mentally tough until the mission was complete. I find that simply having this mentality is priceless in many different situations as an engineering student. The purpose of this assignment is to become familiar looking for data not provided by an instructor. There will be times when there is no clear definite answer, and for this reason we must be able to research data to support our conclusions about the situation. However, to insure that our conclusions are credible we must use trustworthy sources. I believe this is one of the major points that we are supposed to learn from
*For accurate inference, researchers need to analyze data drawn from representative samples. Discuss some of the practical limitations to doing so for qualitative and quantitative approaches.
So staying to true form after facing the two big issues causing my procrastination I immediately began procrastinating my solving procrastination. However after two days I realized that this really was a problem that needed solving right here and now. So I began to brainstorm how I could solve my problem. The next week of the class couldn’t have come at a better time since we focused mainly on procrastination. After reviewing my notes from that class and looking to the textbook for advice, I found the solutions to my first problem to-do lists, calendars, timers, and specific study and work times with
In the article “Applying Behavioral Theory to an Innovative School-Based Program for Preventing Underage Drinking and Impaired Driving,” it applies both the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) and the Social Cognitive Theory (SCT). The behavior that is being studied is the combination of drinking alcohol and driving among teenagers. The authors collaborated with Shattered Dreams, a preventative program that instills teenagers with the potential negative consequences of underage drinking and driving. The purpose of the collaboration is to formulate evaluation criteria, and help make the program more effective by applying behavioral theories and models.
Personally, I knew I was a procrastinator but I’ve learned that I’m not just a procrastinator. I’m a huge procrastinator. I set goals to complete different parts of the assignment in a time frame but when the time came, I put it off. I would say things like, “Oh I have a whole month left.” or “This part should be easy. I can finish it when it's time to do the next part.” i was really procrastinating when it came time to complete this essay. Now i’m sitting here racking my brain trying not to panic about hitting mind blocks because I have other things I need to get done today. However, I know i’ll eventually get it done.
In order to fix this habit, I will look ahead into the course syllabus and begin working on my assignments ahead of time. That way, if I have any questions on the assignment, I can ask them ahead of time and have a clear understanding of the assignment before I get to the deadline. In the past, I’ve had problems with staying ahead on my assignments and end up swamped at the end of the deadline staying up all night finishing an assignment or having questions of how to complete the assignment and not being able to make the best piece of work that I’m capable of. I will start ahead of time even if
In order to carry out this assignment research will have to be collected this will come from a number of sources including the following:
Your overall assignment should be developed to include two new paragraphs, in addition your introduction and thesis, around 200 words in length. Be sure to cite your evidence using APA style conventions, both in-text and in the reference page. Please review the Week 3 APA material for help with formatting and citing.
Soon, I discovered a method to avoid the potential of feeling insubstantial, if only for a few more hours or days. Thus, allow me to introduce you to an old friend, procrastination. My way of thinking soon became, “If I’m not going to get an A, then why even put the effort in?” and consequently, innumerable assignments were put off until five in the morning where it would be due in two hours or it would never reach my teacher’s hands at all. I’m sure most teachers believed the cause to be laziness or a lack of ambition, however I strongly believe that if they’d known the constant stress, self-doubt, and exhaustion that I
But it is proven that lots of procrastinators are also perfectionists. Therefore, the reason behind procrastination could be to avoid failing. As a perfectionist, you will think that only perfection would be good enough, and often you cannot live up to your own expectations, thus you just avoid trying – at least for as long as possible. You may even argue that you perform better under pressure, which I personally believe is a lie. But if you are a perfectionist then no matter how early you begin your assignment, you will always feel like it is not good enough, and you can do better. Because of this, you will be wondering how to make the assignment better, right until you reach the deadline of the assignment, and thinking about this constantly might make you stressed out. But if you wait up until the last minute to begin writing you will not have the time to wonder how to do better. Of course, you might still be stressed because of it, but therefore, as a perfectionist, procrastinating it might actually seem like a much better idea, rather than to begin early.
Attention Getter: So I’m pretty sure everyone here has had an important assignment to complete before like a project or essay. And most of us usually plan it out where we do a portion of it every day. For example, something like this chart here. But then the next thing you know, the deadline is fast approaching and you still haven’t come close to completing your assignment. And we end up somewhere like this. Well, I believe that we can all relate to this and we have all done this to ourselves before. I’m talking about procrastination.
a) What was the source of the data (i.e. from where was the data collected) and how was it collected? (50-100 words) (1 pt)
The diversity of student populations in American schools is continuously growing. The article by Brant (2013) discusses the importance of the ways teachers and teacher educators act towards multicultural education. The study discussed pre service social studies teachers’ understanding of multicultural education. The study was based on of the ten themes of standards by the National Curriculum for Social Studies. Sixty-nine pre service teachers from a university completed a survey to rate how they understood various multicultural education terms and their self-efficacy towards working with diverse students and families (Brant, 2013). The survey resulted in a range of answers about teachers’ beliefs and practices towards diversity in the classroom. Most of the pre service teachers reported understanding and about student’s diversity. Brant (2013) reported that eighty-two percent of respondents believed multicultural education means being an advocate for diversity and identified as an ally for a group of diverse people.
The problem of procrastination starts when a student waits until minutes before a class to study for a class. This may seem like a solution for students who are pressed for time; however, this doesn’t allow time for the information to be solidified and vital information can be lost. These behaviors form because students have found that in the past they were able to successfully pass the class by doing their homework literally hours before the projects deadline. This reckless learning may help pass the class, but doesn’t give the information the time needed to be solidified into memory. This reckless learning also produces effects within projects that are often below the students’ academic level and can cause
One of the biggest causes for the poor time management among students is the tendency to procrastinate until the last possible moment. There may be multiple reasons for procrastination, but it ultimately results in intense work for long stretches to meet the necessary deadlines. It is often argued that the majority of the students work better under pressure of deadlines, and therefore tend to procrastinate (The McGraw Center for Teaching & Learning). However, it can also lead to the problems
There are all always two types of students in this small world, first, the students that come ready to class with a three to five-page essay all proofread, nice and stapled with three transition sentences highlighted turned. Second, there are those students who come to class with not even half of a paper written out, unstapled, not a single transitional sentence highlighted and may have plenty of errors due to not proofreading the essay. Those second group of students are procrastinators, which are people who delay an assignment to do the task right before the deadline. Now, why do most of all 99.99% of school boys and girls procrastinate? Well, most people might have problems with lack of focus, or the person might be lazy and decide to