The effect of the HOPS educational program on academic procrastination of procrastinating students

Sheykholeslami, Ali; Hedayatjoo, Fatemeh; Ghamari Kivi, Hossein

doi:10.22034/jiera.2026.579045.3478

The effect of the HOPS educational program on academic procrastination of procrastinating students

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Ali Sheykholeslami ¹

Fatemeh Hedayatjoo ²

Hossein Ghamari Kivi ¹

¹ Professor, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran.

² M.A. of School Counseling, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran.

10.22034/jiera.2026.579045.3478

Abstract

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of the HOPS (Homework, Organization and Planning Skills) educational program on academic procrastination of procrastinating students.
Method: The method of the current research was semi-experimental including pretest and posttest designs with a control group. All female students of secondary education of Ardabil city in the academic year of 2025-2026 comprised the population of this research. 40 procrastinating students were recruited through randomized cluster sampling which were randomly assigned to experimental group (n=20) and control group (n=20). The participants of the experimental group, received 12 sessions of the HOPS educational program while the control group sticked to their normal routine. The Solomon and Ruth Bloom's Academic Procrastination Scale (1984) were taken to collect data. The data were analyzed using statistical method of covariance in SPSS software.
Results: The results demonstrated that the academic procrastination of procrastinating students in posttests of the experimental group were significantly lower that the control group and the research hypothesis based on the effect of the HOPS educational program on academic procrastination of procrastinating students was approved.
Conclusions: Thus, it can be concluded that the HOPS educational program is indeed effective on academic procrastination of procrastinating students; therefore, applying this program for decreasing student's academic procrastination in schools is suggested.

Keywords

HOPS Educational Program

Academic Procrastination

Procrastinating Students

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