Facebook affects exam results by 20 per cent
The exam results of students who used Facebook while working ? even if only intermittently ? were on average 20 per cent lower than people who did not, psychologists said.
The results call into question the belief that young people’s brains are adept at performing several different functions on electronic devices at the same time.
But three quarters of those who used the social networking website while revising did not believe it had a negative impact on their studies, according to the survey.
Professor Paul Kirschner, who wrote the paper, said many students would have Facebook or other similar websites, their emails and instant messenger programmes all running simultaneously while working on their computer.
He said: “While people may think constant task-switching allows them to get more done in less time, the reality is it extends the amount of time needed to carry out tasks and leads to more mistakes.”
Researchers in America examined 219 students aged from 19 to 54, and found that Facebook users scored a grade point average of 3.06 out of four, while those who did not use the website while studying scored on average 3.82.
Non-users of the website were also found to spend 88 per cent more time studying outside of lessons, the Daily Mail reported.
The study by Prof Kirschner, from the Open University in The Netherlands, will be published in the journal Computers in Human Behaviour.
Thanks Telegraph
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