Students, your teachers procrastinate too!
Because procrastination is part of human nature
Students procrastinate. You’ve done it. We’ve done it. A study done by Knewton found that the majority of students do their work no more than three days before the assignment is due. Similarly, a study of 777 college students in the UK revealed that 4 out of 5 of students waited until the last hours to start their homework.
Start your homework early!
Whether it’s our parents or teachers, we are all told not to procrastinate. But teachers have a little secret — they procrastinate just as much as their students. We have compiled data showing when teachers do their prep work on our platform. The results are rather intriguing.
Notice something different about Sunday?
During week days, the peaks are around 9AM and noon. As the week goes on, the peak prep work time gets later and later. Sunday is a whole different story with peak usage at 8PM. There you have it. Teachers procrastinate too — planning for their week the night before.
Why is this? If you know a teacher, you probably know they are overworked and overwhelmed. Teachers have so many things to do outside the classroom, and planning is just one of them. In fact, from these graphs, we can tell you that teachers work six days per week! Teachers have much more to do than students, so is this procrastination or just an endless stream of work? That is why our goal at Chalk.com is to be the personal assistant to teachers — to help them achieve more.
Looking at the graph, there are a few more conclusions we can draw:
- As the week goes on, peak usage starts later and later — from Monday 9AM to Friday 1PM.
- People call Wednesday the “hump day” for a reason as usage is only around 60% compared to the same time on Monday.
- At midnight on Sunday (or 0:00 on Monday morning), usage is twice as much as any other days at midnight.
- Saturday is a rest day for most teachers.
Technical Notes. This study was based on thousands of Planboard users in North America who plan their lessons using Planboard by Chalk.com. All results are statistically significant. All data is anonymized and presented in aggregate.
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