It was found that school's ban on smartphone influences academic achievement improvement, comparable to 1 hour of study time per week

ByFrancis Storr

For smartphones and mobile phones, the concept of 'hindering learning' and the opposite way of 'being able to learn more efficiently' exist, but in a study conducted at a UK school, mobile phones It was revealed that the effect of improving the student's performance was brought by prohibiting the use of.

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Both economists, Associate Professors Richard Murphy and Associate Professor Luis Philippe Bellland, conducted this survey. Both of them turned their attention to the four cities of Britain's Birmingham, London, Leicester Manchester that the smartphone is penetrating among young people in particular. In the UK, it is clear that students' cell phone ownership rate since 2001 has risen from around 60% to around 90%. By the way, the holding ratio in the United States is 73%.


Associate Professor investigated the trends of the measures for mobile phones and the results of academic ability tests conducted at schools in four cities since 2001. As a result, schools that prohibited the use of mobile phones at school have shown that the average score of the tests has increased by 6.4%.


Especially for students whose original results were not good, it has also been revealed that the score rose by 14%.


According to these results, both associate professors said, "Banning students' use of mobile phones at school has an effect equivalent to an increase in study time of 1 hour per week, or an increase in the number of class days per year by 5 days" I am talking. In addition, I mentioned the fact that the students with lower academic ability have a greater effect, "It is important that improvement of this academic ability is more noticeable especially for students with the lowest grades. Permitted to use the telephone, there is the possibility of expanding learning disparity ", also points out alarm bells on the lifting of the use of mobile phones including dangers leading to disparity in academic ability.

On the other hand, it is interesting that students who showed high grades from the beginning could not confirm the clear effect of lifting the mobile phone. Based on this point, the report points out that "students who do not have good grades are more likely to be affected by care about mobile phones."

ByDean Shareski

Both associate professors said, "Although these results do not cast doubt on the possibility of successfully using mobile phones for learning by using technology properly," he says, "Although there is no doubt about the existence of mobile phones at school We should not ignore it. "

In March 2015, New York City decided to abolish the laws that prohibited mobile phones at schools in the city for the purpose of "to eliminate inequality in learning" and decide to give judgment to each school . Both associate professors showed a sense of crisis in this, leading to bad consequences, and its impact points out the dangers that are particularly noticeable in low income groups and low academic students.

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