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2012-09-01

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Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting
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This research sought to determine if the use of mobile applications (e.g., iPhone® apps) had an impact on students’ ability to learn new material. A control group was compared against a group of students who used mobile devices during a statistics lecture. Students participated separately in a lecture followed by a period of either pencil and paper only or technology-assisted examples. They then took a quiz over the material. The data collected shows that the app group outperformed the control group on every question and scored 16% higher overall. A post-experimental survey found that participants in the app group felt strongly that mobile applications helped them understand the new concepts more clearly and were more confident in their ability to quickly learn this new material than the control group. Overall, this research demonstrates that technology-assisted learning positively impacts students’ learning. It also suggests that technology is changing the way people think and learn.

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Harnish, D., Ling, C., & Shehab, R. (2012). Leveraging the Use of Mobile Applications to Increase Knowledge Retention in a Classroom Lecture. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 56(1), 610-614. doi: 10.1177/1071181312561127

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