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The effect of social media multitasking on classroom performance
- Source :
- Active Learning in Higher Education. 19:117-129
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2017.
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Abstract
- The purpose of this study is to investigate whether off-task multitasking activities with mobile technologies, specifically social networking sites and short messaging services, used during real-time lectures have an effect on grade performance in higher education students. Two experimental groups and one control group were used in this research. While participants in experimental groups 1 and 2 were allowed to navigate Facebook and to exchange short messaging service messages via mobile phones during real time in class lecturing, the control group participants were allowed to take notes using only pen and paper in the same lecturing conditions during three consecutive experimental sessions. The results showed that when students were given the opportunity of non-lecture-related multitasking using mobile phones writing/sending short messaging services and looking at Facebook profiles/reading news feed/looking at shared multimedia/reading wall messages during the lecture, their grade performance was hindered compared to traditional pen and paper note-taking. Engaging in social media use while trying to follow instruction may reduce learners’ capacity for cognitive processing causing poor academic performance.
- Subjects :
- Class (computer programming)
Multimedia
Computer science
media_common.quotation_subject
05 social sciences
050301 education
050109 social psychology
computer.software_genre
Education
Reading (process)
Human multitasking
Achievement test
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Mobile technology
Social media
0503 education
Mobile device
computer
Cognitive load
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17412625 and 14697874
- Volume :
- 19
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Active Learning in Higher Education
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........929651948266539849ff34e22d8471ec