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    This document summarizes a survey of 29 college students about their phone usage in class. Most respondents were freshmen (22) and female (20). Of respondents, 20 said they used their phone in class, while 6 said sometimes. Most phone usage was 0-15 minutes (16 respondents). Respondents were split on whether phone use affected their performance, with 13 saying yes and 12 saying no. The analysis noted females were more likely to use phones, and sophomores had the highest usage. It suggested getting more respondents and changing some questions for better data.

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    This document summarizes a survey of 29 college students about their phone usage in class. Most respondents were freshmen (22) and female (20). Of respondents, 20 said they used their phone in class, while 6 said sometimes. Most phone usage was 0-15 minutes (16 respondents). Respondents were split on whether phone use affected their performance, with 13 saying yes and 12 saying no. The analysis noted females were more likely to use phones, and sophomores had the highest usage. It suggested getting more respondents and changing some questions for better data.

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    This document summarizes a survey of 29 college students about their phone usage in class. Most respondents were freshmen (22) and female (20). Of respondents, 20 said they used their phone in class, while 6 said sometimes. Most phone usage was 0-15 minutes (16 respondents). Respondents were split on whether phone use affected their performance, with 13 saying yes and 12 saying no. The analysis noted females were more likely to use phones, and sophomores had the highest usage. It suggested getting more respondents and changing some questions for better data.

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    Phone Usage in Class

    Group 3: Jacqueline Ali, Gus Hernandez, Dajheoni Perry


    EDT 180 B
    Gary Lewallen
    April 30th, 2015

    Introduction: The topic that we decided to research was how many students use their phone in
    class, and if they do, for how long. The questions that we asked were:
    1. What year are you?
    2. What is your gender?
    3. Do you use your phone in class?
    4. How much time do you spend on your phone in class?
    5. Do you feel that your phone usage in class affects your performance? If so, why?
    We used a form through Google Docs to gather our information. After surveying, we had twenty
    nine students take our survey.
    Discussion:
    Our total number of respondents was 29 and out of that, 22 were freshmen, only 2 were
    sophomores, 5 were juniors, and we had no seniors. With most of our respondents being
    freshmen, we can conclude that most of our data comes from people who are 18-19 years old.

    Class Demographics
    25
    22
    20

    15

    10
    5
    5
    2
    0
    0
    Freshman

    Sophomore

    Junior

    Senior

    Also of our 29 respondents, 20 were female and only 9 were male. From this we can conclude
    that most of our answers and data are from females.

    Out of our respondents, 20 of them admitted to using their phone during class while 6 said that
    they only use their phone some of the time. Then, 2 respondents said that they do not use their
    phone in class.

    Overall Phone Usage


    25
    20
    20

    15

    10
    6
    5
    2
    0
    Yes

    No

    Sometimes

    We broke up how many people use their phone in class, by which class they are in. Out of the
    freshmen, 17 said they used their phone, 2 said they do not use their phone, and 3 said they
    sometimes use their phone. Then both sophomores admitted to using their phone in class, while
    only one junior said they use their phone while 4 juniors said only sometimes.

    PHONE USAGE BY CLASS


    Yes

    No

    Sometimes

    3
    2

    17

    FRESHMAN

    0
    2

    4
    0
    1

    SOPHOMORE

    JUNIOR

    SENIOR

    Then of the 20 women who answered our survey, 16 answered that they do use their phone,
    while none of them said that they do not, while 4 said sometimes. Then for the 9 men, 4 of them
    answered yes, 2 said no, and 3 said sometimes. This shows that women are more likely to use
    their phone in class than men.

    For this question, we use a text box for the respondents to type in their own answer and we then
    placed them in three different categories: 0-15 minutes, 16-30 minutes, and 31-beyond. Of our
    respondents, 16 of them answered in the 0-15 minute range, while 10 answered in the 26-30
    minute range, and 3 answered in to 31-beyond range. This shows that more people use their
    phone for only 0-10 minutes than 20 minutes and longer.

    Overall Time Usage in Class


    18
    16
    14
    12
    10
    8
    6
    4
    2
    0
    0-15 mins

    16-30 mins

    31-beyond

    We asked our respondents whether or not they feel that their phone usage in class, effects their
    performance in class. From that, 13 (45%) believes that it does affect them, 12 (41%) believes
    that it does not affect them, and 4 (14%) believes that it only affects them sometimes. The results
    are almost tied on whether or not our respondents feel that it actually affects them or not.

    Analysis: When looking at the data that we have received, we can tell that females are more
    likely to use their phone, sophomores had the highest percentage of using their phone. Also, for
    those who do use their phone, they are more likely to use their phones for only 0-10 minutes
    rather than any longer. Also, for those who do use their phone in class, they say that their phone
    usage affects their performance in class. When we asked our respondents why they feel that their
    phone does or does not distract them during class, our most common answer was that it does
    affect them since when they are using their phone, they usually miss what the professor is saying,
    and that they cannot multitask. If we could redo this project, it would have been a lot helpful if
    we could have surveyed a couple hundred students or so, instead of only 29 so we then have
    more of a variety of answers and we would have a better chance of having data that is more wellrounded and giving a better chance of coming up with an accurate conclusion. Something that we
    would have done if we had to redo this project is instead of having a text box for the respondents
    to just type in how long they use their phone in class, we would have had already created
    different choices with different time ranges so we dont have to go back after and put the data
    into different categories like we had to do. Also, with our last question with how we asked our
    respondents if they find that using their phone in class affects their performance in that class or
    not, we should have broken it into two different questions. The first question would have been
    asking for a yes or no answer while the second question would have been a text box asking them
    to explain why they feel that way. Some questions we could have asked is if we asked for GPA
    so we could have compared the GPA of those who do use their phone in class to those who do
    not use their phone in class and see if there is any correlation there.

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