Parallel Programming: A Model for Time Management, Improving the Academic Achievement

• Published in: Procedia, social and behavioral sciences Vol. 112; pp. 333 - 341
• Main Authors: Molaee, Zohreh, Asadzadeh, Hasan, Dortaj, Fariborz
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 07.02.2014
• Subjects: Academic Achievement; Multiple Baseline Design; Parallel Programming; Time Management; Multiple Baseline Design; Time Management; Parallel Programming; Academic Achievement
• ISSN: 1877-0428; 1877-0428
• DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.01.1172

The married women who educate simultaneously, are faced to many challenges for managing their time. Since they have multiple and even conflicting roles, their academic achievement or their family life may be at risk.Whether parallel planning:a total time management model made by authors,can improve their academic achievement or not?A model which tries firstly to improve some skills about and secondly put together all important tasks .The main goal of this study was determining the effectiveness of instructing and employing this model in academic achievement in the case of married women. For doing so,a single case has been selected, multiple baseline(across subjects) design. The sample included 5, married female subjects who were selected in a purposive sampling way among Payame Noor University 2013 students. The cases average age was 24.2 years. Each subject had atleast 11 instructional, practical and monitoring sessions during 18 weeks. Study had two phases of baseline and treatment(instruction).Subjects entered in instruction respectively in 4th,5th,6th,7th&8th session. In each session, each subject responded to totally 18 shortanswer exams(with 20 questions) based on her thermic lesson design, along baseline and instruction phase. The scores reported in a 100point scale and finally graphs and visual analysis prepared on the basis of data. Comparison of the scores of baseline and instruction phase,demonstrated a clear improvement in each subjects’ scores. Based on findings Parallel programming instruction was effective on academic achievement.