Effects of Classroom Cell Phone Use on Expected and Actual Learning.

By A. D. Froese, Christina N. Carpenter, D. Inman, J. Schooley, Rebecca Barnes, P. Brecht, Jasmin D. Chacon. 2012

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Digital Distractions in the Classroom: Student Classroom Use of Digital Devices for Non-Class Related Purposes (2013, background): “Froese (2012) had students participate in a mock-classroom where they watched a PowerPoint presentation followed by a 10-question quiz.”
Efficient, helpful, or distracting? A literature review of media multitasking in relation to academic performance (2018, background): “Another study combining survey with experimental methods found that participants predicted losing close to 30% accuracy on a quiz when using cell phones and indeed lost close to 30% when texting (Froese et al., 2010).”
The Mere Presence of a Cell Phone May be Distracting (2014, background): “…college students, there is evidence of ‘‘distracted learning’’ where academic performance is negatively impacted due to either conversing or texting (Froese et al., 2012; Smith, Isaak, Senette, & Abadie, 2011) and by the distraction associated with the ringing of a cell phone in the classroom…”