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| A Pilot Study of Tablet PC use during the Class Lecture |
| Authors: |
James Kraushaar - David Novak - Thomas Chittenden - et al.
University of Vermont
james.kraushaar@uvm.edu |
| Abstract: |
The University of Vermont’s School of Business Administration has required a student-purchased, tablet PC since the Summer of 2003. Our faculty suspect some students might be using the technology in a way that detracts from the learning process. Some have felt strongly enough to ban tablet PCs from their lectures while others have encouraged student use. Clearly, understanding how tablets impact the process requires knowing what students are doing with their PCs during the lecture. In this poster session we present our preliminary findings from a study involving 5 sections of a required, junior-level, information systems course that requires students to draw entity relationship and data flow diagrams. We measured actual student use with SoftActivity’s Activity Monitoring software installed on each student’s computer. We measured self-reported student use using an end-of-semester questionnaire. We also collected information on each student’s in-class performance with quizzes, exams, and exercises. We will present the results of this pilot study, the lessons learned, and the challenges we still face in the hope that the audience will provide feedback which will assist our future efforts to better understand the impact of tablet PCs on the lecture learning process.
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