How does your usage of Internet affect your school work?

Group 6: Alan Molina, Crystal Valera , Brianda Granados Rubio

ETD180-D

Mr. Lewallen

April 11.2019
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For this research project, we decided to report on the topic of Internet usage, in

correlation to how it affects students’ school work. Most students within ASU are required to

complete and submit their work online. For this reason, our group decided to investigate whether

or not students tend to procrastinate more/less due to having to do their school work online. To

answer our research question, we asked a series of questions through a survey. We asked:

1. Do you have access to the stable Internet at home and if not were do you get access to

the Internet?

2. Do you procrastinate more/less when your coursework is done online?

3. Are you less likely to ask questions in class and/or do you just look up the answers

because you have Internet access?

4. On average, how many hours do you spend on the Internet a day?

5. On average, how many hours do you spend on school work daily?

6. Do you often get distracted/procrastinate from doing your work because of the Internet?

7. Do you believe that having to do your schoolwork online improves your grades?

In order to collect our data we utilized a series of programs. For our survey, we utilized

Google Docs Forms.We had a total of 90 different participants in our survey. We sorted our data

responses using Excel, which allowed us to get averages and percentages of our questions.

Answers to questions and what the results concluded.

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Do you have access to the stable Internet at home and if not were do you get access to the

Internet?

Graph:

As seen above, the majority of students have stable Internet access at home. Only 6

students did not have Internet access at home, they get their Internet access from an ASU facility.

Thus, at least 6% of students need to be at school in order to do Internet research to complete

their school work online work.

Do you procrastinate more/less when your coursework is done online?

Graph:

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This question is a lot more distributed. 47% of the students stated that they procrastinate

more because their work is online, and only 11% stated that they procrastinate less because their

work is online. This shows that online course work has a negative impact on the majority of

students. By procrastinating, they leave themselves less time to learn the material and the overall

quality of their work would decreases. 33% of these students stated that they forget to even do

their online coursework.

Are you less likely to ask questions in class and/or do you just look up the answers because you

have Internet access?

Graph:

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The results of this question were surprising. As shown, 64% of students were less likely

to ask questions in class because they have access to the internet. This leads to lower class

participation, and the overall quality of the classroom decreases as well. Less students are asking

questions, as a result there may be a lack of clarification in the classroom. There is a staggering

84% of students looking up the answers online, and this may negatively affect their education.

Although this might be beneficial in the short term for school work, it does not provide students

with a deep understanding of the subject and may cause them to struggle in future classes.

On average, how many hours do you spend

on the Internet a day?

Graph:

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Graph:

On average, students spend about 5

to 6 hours on the Internet a day. On average students spend about 4

hours on school work a day.

On average, how many hours do you spend

on school work daily?

Here we made a slight mistake in making our question. Although we do know how much

time students spend on school work, it is not stated that this school work is done by using the

Internet. Thus the correlation between the two is limited.

Do you often get distracted/procrastinate from doing your work because of the Internet?

Graph:

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As expected, the majority of participants (72%) answered that they often or sometimes

got distracted and procrastinate when having to do their work online. This reiterated the results

of this research project, that Internet usage has an affect on many students’ school work.

Students tend to continuously get distracted by having to complete their school work online, as

the Internet is often a number one distraction.

Do you believe that having to do your school work online improves your grades?

Graph:

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The collected data for this question demonstrated that approximately 40% of the

participants did not believe that there was an impact with having to do school their school work

online, in correlation to having an impact on their grades. This was not surprising since most

students in college must complete their work online, they do not have anything to compare their

experience to.

From the data and charts collected, we came up with the conclusion that most students

spend around 4-6 hours on the Internet daily, and only about half of that time is spent on school

work. Since over half of the participants stated to often or always get distracted from school

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work due to the Internet, it is seen that there is a correlation between the usage of Internet

affecting students’ school work. Related to the topic of Internet usage affecting school work, we

would have liked to ask how students avoid having the Internet affects their school work. For

students with high GPA’s we would like to ask questions relating to time management. For

example, whether or not they set specific time to do their homework and then seperate time to be

on social media. If we did this research project again, we would have included a few more

questions. We would have asked what gender and grade level the participants were. Then, we

could have identified if there was also a correlation between upper and lower grade levels, or

male and females.