Matthew Bernacki

Through this project, the research team will develop and test interventions for postsecondary academic procrastination. These interventions will focus on equipping students to circumvent two predicted causes of procrastination: (1) experiencing negative mood caused by aversion toward an academic task and (2) choosing an immediately pleasurable activity over the academic task. Academic procrastination is prevalent and associated with worse academic performance and higher psychological distres...

The research team will develop and pilot test a novel education technology called iCODE (improve source CODE comprehension). Code comprehension is a critical skill for both learners and professionals. iCODE will integrate reading strategies training, animated pedagogical agents, inclusive and culturally responsive instructional design, and the open pro-social learner model to improve code comprehension and learning and student engagement, self-efficacy, computer science (CS) identity, and re...