The Effect of Multitasking on the Grade Performance of Business Students
Term 3: Investigatory Project
The Effect of Multitasking on the Grade Performance of Business Students
The new generation of students today have developed the strategy of accomplishing two or more tasks at the same time. This strategy, also called as multitasking, came about due to the growth and the expansion of communication technology. According to the research paper, multitasking refers to the concurrent processing of two or more tasks through the process of context switching. Neuroscientists, however, conducted researches and showed that multitasking diminishes the brain’s ability to adequately and effectively receive information. The brain cannot process two relatively different thoughts at the same time. Giving the illusion that one is simultaneously processing both thoughts at the same time, the brain switches between two different thoughts. The brain saves the current state of the former task whenever it switches from one task to another, then it can come back to it later. It takes a much longer time context switching between tasks than focusing on one task first since the brain will have to process the information first at a much slower rate.
The purpose of this study is to analytically test whether multitasking in class affects the grade performance of business students. Texting in class will be the form of multitasking in this research. The outcome of this study can be very useful to students, instructors, administrators, and other academic stakeholders. They will be able to gain new knowledge about the effect of multitasking in a learning environment and how much it can affect the students’ grade performance.
The experiment was conducted using 62 undergraduate business students who were divided into two different groups. In a class lecture, one-half of the students (treatment group) sent text messages and the other half (control group) did not text. The study employed an independent t-test to examine the overall quiz scores of the students at
The Effect of Multitasking on the Grade Performance of Business Students
The new generation of students today have developed the strategy of accomplishing two or more tasks at the same time. This strategy, also called as multitasking, came about due to the growth and the expansion of communication technology. According to the research paper, multitasking refers to the concurrent processing of two or more tasks through the process of context switching. Neuroscientists, however, conducted researches and showed that multitasking diminishes the brain’s ability to adequately and effectively receive information. The brain cannot process two relatively different thoughts at the same time. Giving the illusion that one is simultaneously processing both thoughts at the same time, the brain switches between two different thoughts. The brain saves the current state of the former task whenever it switches from one task to another, then it can come back to it later. It takes a much longer time context switching between tasks than focusing on one task first since the brain will have to process the information first at a much slower rate.
The purpose of this study is to analytically test whether multitasking in class affects the grade performance of business students. Texting in class will be the form of multitasking in this research. The outcome of this study can be very useful to students, instructors, administrators, and other academic stakeholders. They will be able to gain new knowledge about the effect of multitasking in a learning environment and how much it can affect the students’ grade performance.
The experiment was conducted using 62 undergraduate business students who were divided into two different groups. In a class lecture, one-half of the students (treatment group) sent text messages and the other half (control group) did not text. The study employed an independent t-test to examine the overall quiz scores of the students at