Resilience lessons for young pupils: results on putting things off conflict
Who it’s about: Children, Students
- Mixed
Pupils in group lessons on breaking work into steps and goal promises put things off less, but the numbers conflict.
- Action: Split a big task into piecestested
- Action: Set a specific goaltested
- Rule: Put something at staketested
- Rule: Practise with a groupused
Randomised trial of 100 fourth-grade pupils in Egypt · vs pupils who got no lessons · they rated themselves · ⚠ numbers unreliable; summary claims more than the results show
The study
Who took part
100 fourth-grade pupils (55 girls and 45 boys) from three public schools in Giza, Egypt, who put things off a lot. There seem to have been about 50 in each group.
What they did
One group had 11 group lessons of 30 to 60 minutes over nine weeks. The lessons covered noticing feelings, breaking tasks into steps and making a schedule. They also covered clear goals with a signed promise, role-play and deep breathing. The other group got no lessons.
What happened
The lessons group's scores for putting things off dropped a lot and stayed low one month later. The other group's scores barely changed. But the paper's own test right after the lessons did not show a clear difference between the groups. The tables and text disagree in several places, so we can't trust the sizes.
Source
Overcoming academic procrastination: The effectiveness of psychological resilience in primary school pupils post COVID-19 (2024)
DOI: 10.18488/61.v12i3.3818 (opens in a new tab)
