Academic Procrastination on Digital Native Higher Degree Student: Does it Really Matter?
- DOI
- 10.2991/ictte-18.2018.78How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- academic procrastinaion, generation Z, higher degree student
- Abstract
According to a survey conducted at 2017 by Association of Internet Network Providers Indonesia (APJII), the number of internet users in Indonesia has reached 143.26 million people or equivalent to 54.68% of the total population, the major internet users was contributed by people aged 19-34 known as Generation Z, a generation who was born and live with the rapid growth of internet and digital era. Internet has become a source of information that is very important to support student academic’s life, to some extent it has been impacted to change their behavior in various academic aspects. Motivation of this study was to investigate the correlation of academic procrastination and information/digital literacy while conducting their higher degree education in Faculty of Teaching Learning and Education, Universitas Sebelas Maret. This study explored how’d the students’ characteristic and the importance of information/digital literacy have influenced students’ daily activities. Employed extensive literature reviews, this preliminary study found a positive correlation between academic procrastination positively or negatively impacted by the internet existence for this generation. These findings are very critical for any higher educations’ providers and lecturers to be used as a basic consideration to re-design the academic tasks and projects in learning process.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Salsabiila Sholehah AU - Khresna Sangka AU - Nurhasan Hamidi PY - 2018/09 DA - 2018/09 TI - Academic Procrastination on Digital Native Higher Degree Student: Does it Really Matter? BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Teacher Training and Education 2018 (ICTTE 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 416 EP - 421 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ictte-18.2018.78 DO - 10.2991/ictte-18.2018.78 ID - Sholehah2018/09 ER -