In the absence of a plausible alternative, we can be confident that smartphones played a causal role. The shift is also consistent with self-reported data from students about how they did their homework. The 11– year period perfectly coincided with the increase in power of and pervasiveness of cell phones. How have smartphones contributed to this phenomenon? Over 11 years, the number of college students who score lower on their exams than their homework has increased from 14 percent in 2008 to 55 percent in 2017. Students who rely on the internet to look up answers to their homework questions are getting higher homework scores but lower grades – a half to a full letter grade – on exams.įurther, fewer college students are benefiting from doing homework.
How is the internet affecting student exam performance? Unless we change the way students complete their assignments, reliance on the internet may turn homework into an ineffective ritual, he said. Students who Google their homework answers may get a short-term boost but at the cost of longer-term harm, according to a new study by Rutgers-New Brunswick psychology professor Arnold Glass in the School of Arts and Sciences. Rutgers researcher says students’ reliance on the internet can harm information retention, test performance
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