Academic Procrastination And Statistics Anxiety - 1394 Words

Introduction A critical review of Onwuegbuzie, A., J. (2004). â€Å"Academic procrastination and statistics anxiety†. Assessment Evaluation in Higher Education. 29 (1), 3-19; a quantitative statistical analysis that attempts to demonstrate varying degrees of procrastination in graduate students, the correlation between statics anxiety and how this type of anxiety effects the graduate student in accomplishing deliverables for a registered course. The research methodology in the article was designed around previously established theories in statistic anxiety with the intention to further examine the relationship of procrastination and statistic anxiety at the graduate level. This critical review examines the author’s procedures, findings,†¦show more content†¦The author has made numerous contributions in the field of education through research, presenting and supporting theories and methodologies quantified with statistics and analysis to support the subject matter. In the research article the author aims to research anxiety levels in graduate students and how it leads to procrastination. Based on the authors academic background and previously published works his knowledge is extent in both statistics anxiety and academic procrastination. The researcher Onwuegbuzie presented the research methods, the statistical results and qualitative analysis of the findings. He then stated assumptions on the participant’s actions and possible reasons for these actions. Onwuegbuzie then made further suggestions as to how educators can help to alleviate statistic anxiety. Onwuegbuzie findings determines that the graduate student’s results were similar to the norm group of undergraduates in a study by Solomon, LJ Rothblum, E. D. in 1984 on academic procrastination. In discussions Onwuegbuzie surmised thou results were similar with little variation the participants in his study being of a higher academic level could be effected by different reasons than that of the norm group. Research Method In the research quantitative and qualitative methods are applied. The author administered the Statistical Anxiety Rating Scale (SARS) to asses for statistics anxiety and the