New United States research has found that allowing devices such as smartphones and tablets in lectures could cause students to perform worse in their end-of-term exams. Carried out by researchers from Rutgers University, the team recruited 118 cognitive psychology students who attended the university and followed them for one term of their course. Electronic devices including laptops, phones and tablets were banned in half of the lectures and permitted in the other half, with students asked to record whether they had used them for non-academic purposes during the lecture. As previous studies have found that when a person divides attention between two tasks, they remember les...
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