MULTITASKING

AS IT AFFECTS
GPA
EDT 180 D
Group 4
Grace Palmer, Gunnar Anderson, Alli
Hensel
 INTRODUCTION
How widespread is multitasking?
What is the relationship between GPA and multitasking?
BASE QUESTIONS
BASE QUESTIONS
BASE QUESTIONS

GPA
Bk sdfknjnnnnnn Average 3.264
Median 3.3
Mode 3
 DO YOU MULTITASK IN CLASS?
In Class
Yes 64
No 22
Occasionally 69
 DO YOU MULTITASK AT HOME?
At Home
Yes 111
No 5
Occasionally 39
 HOW MANY HOURS (ON AVERAGE DAILY) DO YOU
MULTITASK AT HOME?
Time Spent in Hours

0-3 86

4-6 45

7-9 7

10-12 13

13-15 4

Time Spent in Hours

Average 4.125806452
Median 3
Most 2
 WHAT TASKS ARE YOU PERFORMING WHILE DOING
HOMEWORK?
Activity Performed Number of Participants

Texting 127

Watching TV 74

Listening to Music 121

Talking on the Phone 49

Browsing the Web (i.e. 92

online shopping and
social media)

Exercise 15

In-Person Social 58
Interaction

I do not multitask 5
 RATE YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH MULTITASKING .
Experience (out of 10) Number of Students
per Rating

1-2 7

3-4 16

5-6 51

7-8 61

9-10 20

Experience
Average 6.387096774
Median 7
Mode 7
DATA ANALYSIS
DATA ANALYSIS
 INTERPRETATIONS
A majority of students multitask in class and at home.

131 students spend between 0-6 hours multitasking per day.

The most popular activities are texting, listening to music, and

browsing the web.

112 students rate their experience with multitasking between 5 and 8.

Students that spend less than 5 hours multitasking per day tend to
have higher GPA’s.

Students who have had a good experience with multitasking tend to

have higher GPA’s.
 CONCLUSION
Most students multitask less than 6 hours a day while completing
moderately obtrusive activities, such as texting.

While most students are lukewarm towards multitasking, those who

have had a good experience (rated 8-10) with multitasking were more
likely to have above a 3.2.

Less time multitasking correlates with a higher GPA , which could

indicate that multitasking is detrimental to GPA .

However, several students with high GPA’s also spent upwards of 10

hours multitasking and rated their experience with multitasking highly.