A professor set specific deadlines for three papers in one class, evenly spaced, and let the members of a second class set their own deadlines. What were the results?
What will be an ideal response?
In the class that set their own deadlines, those who set evenly spaced deadlines wrote papers about as well as those in the class where all students were required to write papers at evenly spaced deadlines. Those who set all their deadlines for the end of the semester wrote the worst papers, presumably because they yielded to the temptation to procrastinate until the end.
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