How do electronics affect

the college experience?

Group #7
Sadie Sanders
Sue Williamson
Maria Guerrero
 Survey taken by Class
★ Majority of students are
Freshman that participated in
our survey.
★ Freshman:54
★ Sophomore:21
★ Junior:10
★ Senior: 3
★ Post-Bacc:1
 Survey taken by gender
★ Females were the majority
of the participants in our
survey.
★ Female:72
★ Male:15
★ Prefer not to say:1
 Survey Taken by college
★ The two main schools who took
our survey: The Teachers College
and Liberal Arts and Sciences
College.
★ Teachers College:48
★ Liberal Arts and Sciences: 23
★ Others:18
 Daily homework
★ The median for daily homework
usage per hour out of 24 hours is 4
hours.
★ Out of all the classes people spend
more than 5 hours doing homework
on technology.
 Daily leisure
★ The median for daily leisure
usage per hour out of 24 hours is
5 hours.
★ Out of all the classes people
spend more than 4 hours
spending leisure time on
technology.
 Note & exam taking
preferences
★ People prefer taking handwritten notes
over electronic note taking.
★ People prefer taking written exams over
electronic exams
★ Concluding that people would rather
have a pencil and paper over a keyboard
and screen.
 Daily importance of electronics
★ The people who took the survey said
that electronics were very important
to their daily life.
★ The data indicates that the average
rate for daily importance on
electronics is a 4 on a (1-5) scale.
 Mental health
★ The people who took the survey said that
electronics overall do affect their mental
health somewhat.
★ The data indicates that the average rate for
electronics having an effect on mental health
was a 3 on a (1-5) scale
 Mental Health and daily importance of technology
★ Out of every student who took our survey 54 out of the 89 students were Freshman.
★ Freshman are mostly affected by the use of technology.
★ Technology is also of highest importance to Freshman on a daily basis.
 Colleges and mental health
★ The two Colleges that the
majority of students took our
survey from was the Teachers
College and Liberal Arts and
Sciences College.
★ Out of all the Colleges, the
students whose mental health
is most affected by technology
is Liberal Arts and Sciences
students.
Daily Leisure Per Hour VS.
Daily Homework per hour
★ This graph shows the comparison
between leisure vs homework on
the average time spent by college
students using electronics.
★ On a daily average students spend
1 hour more using electronics for
homework purposes over leisure.
★ The average time spent using
electronics for homework and
leisure are 5 hours for each.
★ Our graph indicates that the overall
time spent using electronics is
roughly 10 hours a day.
 Conclusion
★ Through our data analysis and graphs we have concluded that our original research question of how
do electronics affect the college experience we have come to the consensus that electronics do have
an impact on the college experience.
★ The college experience includes everything from exam taking, note taking, electronic facetime,
whether it be on leisure or homework time, as well as the affect on your mental health from
electronics.
★ Students would overall rather have paper and pencil exams and note taking over electronic taking,
even though college exams are mostly taken online under the program of LockDown Browser.
★ Overall the amount of time students spend on electronics for homework and leisure is a total of 10
hours a day out of a 24 hour block.
★ Our data indicates that the average college student rated electronics as having an effect on their
mental health as a 3 on a 1 to 5 scale.
★ College students are averaging a rate for daily importance on electronics as a 4 on a 1-5 scale.
★ These finding shows that the relationship between electronics and students college experience has a
direct correlation.