ACADEMIC PROCRASTINATION AND PERFORMANCE IN DISTANCE EDUCATION: A CAUSAL-COMPARATIVE STUDY IN AN ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

Research indicates that academic procrastination is a common attitude among learners, and that it generally has a negative correlation with academic performance. The present quantitative causal-comparative study aims to determine the cause of differences, in terms of procrastination tendency, in academic performance among online learners. The study further investigates whether academic procrastination tendency significantly predicts the academic...