Practice and experience of task management of university students: Case of University of Tsukuba, Japan

Issue title: Selected papers from the Asia-Pacific Library and Information Education and Practice (A-LIEP) conference 2013

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Article type: Research Article

Authors: Fukuzawa, Ryoko^a | Joho, Hideo^{b; *} | Maeshiro, Tetsuya^b

Affiliations: [a] Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan | [b] Research Center for Knowledge Communities, Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Hideo Joho, Research Center for Knowledge Communities, Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba, 1-2 Kasuga, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8550, Japan. Tel.: +81 29 859 1337; Fax: +81 29 859 1093; E-mail:hideo@slis.tsukuba.ac.jp

Abstract: This paper reports the results of a survey that investigated the practice and experience of task management of university students. A total of 202 tasks identified by 24 university students were analyzed. The results suggest that participants had a reasonable sense of priority of tasks, that they tend to perceive a task as a big chunk, not a series of small chunks, that estimated time can be a good indicator of task completion, that time management and loss of coordination are the major factors for uncompleted or non-started tasks, and finally that their notion of task grouping was dominated by task themes or topics.

Keywords: Survey, task management, higher education

DOI: 10.3233/EFI-150953

Journal: Education for Information, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 109-124, 2015