Hi Inside Higher Ed had a brief blurb on lack of relationship between use of social media (e.g., facebook) and grades. See:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/12/28/qt#216242 Here is link to summary of study (a student project): http://www.unh.edu/news/docs/UNHsocialmedia.pdf I thought it might be useful for evaluation. Here are some of my thoughts, which I posted in comment: "According to the summary report linked to in the social media article, use of such media varied by faculty. Namely, there were more heavy users from Liberal Arts and more light users from Engineering. No indication in the article that this factor was controlled in grade comparisons, despite possibility that it would (arguably) be easier to get high grades in some faculties than others. Also treatment of social media use as a binary categorical variable could easily mask meaningful patterns (e.g., drop in grades with extremely high use). Finally, students might self-regulate media use depending on their grades, suggesting that it would not be safe for individual students to assume that they could increase their use without any impact on their grades (i.e., reverse causality as explanation for non-relationship observed by students)." Project appears to have been undertaken by students in a business school ... no wonder our economies are in such bad shape! [only partly a joke ... I don't think business schools have taken enough flack for collapse of economy] Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca Department of Psychology University of Winnipeg Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9 CANADA --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
