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Record W4401537110 · doi:10.69520/jipe.v6i.202

Student Perceptions of Flexible Deadlines

2024· article· en· W4401537110 on OpenAlex
Lynne N. Kennette, Michelle Rivers

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of innovation in polytechnic education. · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEvaluation of Teaching Practices
Canadian institutionsDurham College
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProcrastinationIncentivePerceptionComputer sciencePoint (geometry)SupervisorAffect (linguistics)Punitive damagesPsychologyMathematics educationMedical educationSocial psychologyManagementPolitical scienceMedicineEconomics

Abstract

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Instructors’ course policies have an important impact on student success in our courses, as well as their perceptions of instructors. One such course policy, which is the focus of this descriptive study, is that of assessment deadlines, more specifically, the various permutations of flexible deadlines. These might include automatic extensions, short or long extensions with or without a penalty, open deadlines for submissions, or a bonus point as an incentive for meeting the deadline. In the present study, we asked students to evaluate these submission deadline policies and how they might affect their wellbeing, procrastination, and perceptions of their instructor. Although they report encountering them most frequently, students don’t perceive extensions with a reduction in grade (e.g., 10% per day) as helpful for their learning and would prefer automatic non-punitive extensions to help support their success and wellbeing. Additionally, students reported that they would have a more positive view of their instructor (nicer and cares about their success) if they had a flexible deadline policy and that it would increase their satisfaction with both the course and instructor. Surprisingly, the largest number of students indicated that their preferred flexible deadline policy would be to receive a bonus for submitting it on time. Implications for policy and student success are discussed. The authors recommend that faculty who use hard/rigid deadlines consider adopting flexible deadlines to better support student success.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.814
Threshold uncertainty score0.742

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.085
GPT teacher head0.503
Teacher spread0.418 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it