A Study Planning Exercise Associated with Decreased Distraction Levels among Introductory Biology Students.

ABSTRACT: Students struggle to regulate their learning during independent study sessions. In this study, we ask whether an online behavioral intervention helped introductory students decrease distraction while studying. The intervention consisted of exam 1 reflection, exam 2 planning, and exam 2 reflection exercises. During planning, students formed a goal, mentally contrasted (MC) a positive outcome of their goal to their present reality, identified an obstacle, and formed an implementation intention (II) to overcome that obstacle. During reflection, students self-reported their distraction while studying. Distraction was the most frequently reported study obstacle, and decreasing distraction was the second most frequently reported study goal. While students who aimed to decrease dist

SUBMITTER: Walck-Shannon EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10956610 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature