Procrastination causes student stress, reduced learning and performance, and results in very busy help sessions immediately before deadlines. A key challenge is encouraging students to complete assignments earlier rather than waiting until right before the deadline, so the focus becomes on the learning objectives rather than just meeting deadlines. This work presents an incentive system encouraging students to complete assignments many days before deadlines. Completed assignments are code reviewed by staff for correctness and providing feedback, which results in more student-instructor interactions and may help reduce student use of generative AI. The incentives result in a change in student behavior with 45% of assignments completed early and 30% up to 4 days before the deadline. Students receive real-time feedback with no increase in marking time.

翻译：拖延症会导致学生产生压力、学习效果和表现下降，并在截止日期前出现极其繁忙的辅导时段。核心挑战在于鼓励学生提前完成作业，而非拖到截止日期前最后一刻，从而使学习目标而非仅仅满足截止日期成为重点。本研究提出一种激励机制，鼓励学生在截止日期前数天完成作业。完成的作业由教学人员通过代码评审检查正确性并提供反馈，这增加了师生互动，并可能有助于减少学生对生成式AI的使用。该激励机制促使学生行为发生改变：45%的作业提前完成，30%的作业在截止日期前4天内提交。学生在无需增加批改时间的情况下获得实时反馈。