Facebook and Student Grades

There are a few studies that show different effects of Facebooking on student performance.  Here’s another one:

No, Facebook Is Not Ruining Your Grades [STUDY]

via Mashable! by Sarah Kessler

http://mashable.com/2011/10/11/facebook-gpa/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29

“The latest of several studies to look into the relationship between Facebook use and low grades has a counterintuitive twist — some kinds of Facebook use are correlated with higherGPAs.

“Facebook use in and of itself is not detrimental to academic outcome,” says study author Reynol Junco, a professor at the Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania. “It depends how it’s used.””

“On average, students say they spend 106 minutes on Facebook per day. Each increase of 93 minutes beyond 106 minutes correlates with a GPA decrease of .12 grade points — statistically significant, but not dramatic when applied to a real-world situation.”

“It makes sense that a drop in grades would be caused by students who let Facebook time cut into study time. But the data shows no correlation between time spent on Facebook and time spent studying.”

The study was published last week in Computers in Human Behavior.

Stephen