Affiliations: [a] Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan | [b] Research Center for Knowledge Communities, Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Correspondence:
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Corresponding author: Hideo Joho, Research Center for Knowledge Communities, Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba, 1-2 Kasuga, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8550, Japan. Tel.: +81 29 859 1337; Fax: +81 29 859 1093; E-mail:[email protected]
Abstract: This paper reports the results of a survey that investigated the practice
and experience of task management of university students. A total of 202
tasks identified by 24 university students were analyzed. The results
suggest that participants had a reasonable sense of priority of tasks, that
they tend to perceive a task as a big chunk, not a series of small chunks,
that estimated time can be a good indicator of task completion, that time
management and loss of coordination are the major factors for uncompleted or
non-started tasks, and finally that their notion of task grouping was
dominated by task themes or topics.