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Communication & connectedness play essential roles in human relationships Markham et al., 2010Catalano et al., 2004Pittman et al., 2003
Students - mobile phones - most important ICTChen & Katz, 2009
Mobile phone use in many settings,
– restaurants, – grocery stores, – buses, trains, and – movie theatres
Campbell, 2004 Campbell & Russo, 2003
Rice & Katz, 2003
Literature SuggestsCell phone use frequency may have a negative effect on academic performance
Ellis, Daniels, & Jauregui, 2010
Martínez & Otero, 2009
But• Not all mobile phone use in educational contexts is objectionable – support learning – E learning Katz, 2005 Mifsud, 2003Milrad, 2003Nyiri, 2002
Research Methodology
• Questionnaires– 196 undergraduate University students,
– voluntarily, no extra-credit •shared their GPA, mobile phone usage habits
Limitations of method• Sample Selection: Availability
– Generalizable? Yin, 2009
• Data/GPA is self reported
Demographics• 83% - between the ages of 19 and 23; • Average age - 21.27 years. Age Mode - 21. • Age range 17 – 31 years.
• 47 % - males : 53% - females
• 65 first year (30 males – 35 females), • 65 second year (33 males – 32 females) • 66 third year (30 males – 36 females) students.
Different people students speak with per day
Different people students send text per day
GPA 3.00-3.49 3.50 &
above
Mean 6.04 3.95
GPA 3.00-3.49 3.50 & above
Mean 8.00 8.23
Initial Findings
Average phone calls made per day
Average phone calls received per day
GPA 3.00-3.49 3.50 &
above
Mean 7.25 3.79
GPA 3.00-3.49 3.50 & above
Mean 7.40 8.06
Average text messages sent per day
Average text messages received per day
GPA 3.00-3.49 3.50 &
above
Mean 86.00 110.47
GPA 3.00-3.49 3.50 & above
Mean 87.73 139.46