Investigating Factors That Influence Chinese Students' Time Management in Online Group Work

• In Event: 18.072 - Roundtable Session 6
  In Roundtable Session: 18.072-6 - Instructional Design in Online and Blended Settings

Abstract

The present investigation examines models of factors influencing time management in online groupwork for Chinese undergraduates. Multilevel findings showed that time management was positively related to five individual-level variables, including online courses taken previously, learning-oriented reasons, arranging the environment, feedback, and help seeking. At the group level, time management was positively correlated with feedback and learning-oriented reasons. Our investigation suggests that time management may be influenced by cultural differences (e.g., value of education and polychromic time orientation). In addition, our result concerning help seeking lends empirical support to the theoretical claim that seeking help may serve to enhance individuals' efforts to manage their work, in the context of Chinese undergraduates' time management in online groupwork.

Authors

• Jianzhong Xu, Mississippi State University

• Jianxia Du, University of Macau

• Xitao Fan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)

• Ruiping Yuan, Mississippi State University