The Impact of Academic Procrastination and Academic Social Activity an Predicting college
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2010-06
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Addis Ababa Universty
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This study assesses the prevalence of academic procrastination and academic
social activity, and the relationship of academic procrastination and academic
social activity to academic performance in Bonga College of Teacher
Education. The participants of the study were two hundred and twenty one
first year diploma students. The findings of the study showed a significant
difference in the mean academic procrastination rate among the four fields of
study, and a significant difference in academic social activity between
different levels of academic ability. Regarding the relationship between
academic procrastination and academic performance, it has been found a
statistically significant negative relationship between social study students'
academic procrastination and academic performance . . There was' also a
statistically significant positive relationship between language, natural science
and social study students' academic social activity and academic
perf01mance. Finally it was found that. academic social activity was a
statistically significant positive predictor of language students' academic
performance.
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