What is it about?
This study examines the influence of complexity on the student's final project. Several factors have been tested using PLS-SEM to determine if there are significant effects on project performance. This study exemplifies comprehensive analysis by synthesizing emotional factors by conducting Kansei Engineering, as well as structural complexity, socio-political complexity, and emergent factors. The findings of this research highlight the substantial effect of emotional complexity on students' project performance, indicating the urgency of coping strategies to overcome the challenges of students' final projects. Moreover, the results showed a hindsight bias on the complexity evaluation of the final project. According to students, the complexity after the students completed their final project was lower than when they were performing their final project.
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Why is it important?
It is critical to underscore project complexity, especially in students' final projects. The determination of the complexity of the final projects is essential for students who will perform their final project. Project complexity can impact project performance. This research offers valuable insight into hindsight bias on students, implicating the students experienced anxiety and distress. Advocating to manage the project carefully while imparting a good coping mechanism is indispensable for students to achieve the project goals.
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Project complexity is inevitable, yet there is no consensus on how to measure project complexity. Given the ever-changing situations in research-related projects, this study incorporated emerging factors and synthesized them with emotional, organizational, and socio-technical aspects. Complexity perception of students as the key players in their project is often biased. Therefore, this study proved evidence that hindsight biases exist. In addition, emotional factors negatively affect the project performance. These profound findings give students insights into not being anxious to solve their projects effectively.
Huki Chandra
Telkom University
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This page is a summary of: The influence of complexity on the final project performance from students’ perspectives, January 2025, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0227800.
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