TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM
Internet-Use---ans-✔✔nonacademic-Internet-use-was-common-among-students-who-
brought-laptops-to-class-and-was-inversely-related-to-class-performance.-This-
relationship-was-upheld-after-we-accounted-for-motivation,-interest,-and-intelligence.-
Class-related-Internet-use-was-not-associated-with-a-benefit-to-classroom-performance.
Participants-(method)---ans-✔✔(in-study)
Five-hundred-seven-students-enrolled-in-an-introductory-psychology-class-in-fall-2014-
were-invited-to-participate-in-this-experiment
Procedure-(method)---ans-✔✔The-participants-logged-in-with-the-same-username-and-
password,-and-they-were-asked-to-self-report-their-Inter-net-use-for-an-average-lecture-in-
the-same-introductory-psychology-class.-They-were-also-asked-to-rate-their-motivation-to-
do-well-in-the-class,-their-overall-interest-in-the-class,-and-a-number-of-other-variables
Actual-Internet-Use-(measures)---ans-✔✔Average-duration-online:-This-measure-is-an-
estimate-of-the-average-number-of-minutes-a-participant-spent-browsing-the-Internet-
during-each-lecture.
Average-number-of-requests:-This-measure-is-the-actual-average-number-of-HTTP-
requests-a-participant-made-during-each-lecture.
Self-reported-Internet-Use-(measures)---ans-✔✔completed.-The-survey-asked-the-
participants-to-estimate-their-minutes-of-use-for-each-of-our-non-classroom-related-Web-
site-categories
Classroom-Performance-(measures)---ans-✔✔To-determine-whether-Inter-net-use-was-
related-to-academic-performance,-we-used-the-cumulative-final-exam-score.
Intelligence-(measures)---ans-✔✔After-obtaining-permission-from-the-participants,-we-
obtained-their-composite-ACT-scores-from-the-university-registrar.-Composite-ACT-
scores-correlate-very-highly-with-independent-measures-of-general-intelligence
Internet-Use---ans-✔✔nonacademic-Internet-use-was-common-among-students-who-
brought-laptops-to-class-and-was-inversely-related-to-class-performance.-This-
relationship-was-upheld-after-we-accounted-for-motivation,-interest,-and-intelligence.-
Class-related-Internet-use-was-not-associated-with-a-benefit-to-classroom-performance.
Participants-(method)---ans-✔✔(in-study)
Five-hundred-seven-students-enrolled-in-an-introductory-psychology-class-in-fall-2014-
were-invited-to-participate-in-this-experiment
Procedure-(method)---ans-✔✔The-participants-logged-in-with-the-same-username-and-
password,-and-they-were-asked-to-self-report-their-Inter-net-use-for-an-average-lecture-in-
the-same-introductory-psychology-class.-They-were-also-asked-to-rate-their-motivation-to-
do-well-in-the-class,-their-overall-interest-in-the-class,-and-a-number-of-other-variables
Actual-Internet-Use-(measures)---ans-✔✔Average-duration-online:-This-measure-is-an-
estimate-of-the-average-number-of-minutes-a-participant-spent-browsing-the-Internet-
during-each-lecture.
Average-number-of-requests:-This-measure-is-the-actual-average-number-of-HTTP-
requests-a-participant-made-during-each-lecture.
Self-reported-Internet-Use-(measures)---ans-✔✔completed.-The-survey-asked-the-
participants-to-estimate-their-minutes-of-use-for-each-of-our-non-classroom-related-Web-
site-categories
Classroom-Performance-(measures)---ans-✔✔To-determine-whether-Inter-net-use-was-
related-to-academic-performance,-we-used-the-cumulative-final-exam-score.
Intelligence-(measures)---ans-✔✔After-obtaining-permission-from-the-participants,-we-
obtained-their-composite-ACT-scores-from-the-university-registrar.-Composite-ACT-
scores-correlate-very-highly-with-independent-measures-of-general-intelligence
