Student performance interrelation with gadget use at lessons

Abstract

© 2019, Dorma Journals. All rights reserved. Purpose: The relevance of the article is conditioned by the use of gadgets is increasing rapidly every year. The purpose of this study is to establish the relationship of students’ performance with their use of gadgets in the classroom. Methodology: The leading methods for the study of this problem are the methods of questioning and testing, allowing to make a qualitative analysis of the leading type’s characteristics of students’ attitude to the study. Result: Positive impact on academic performance consists in the fact that with the help of technical devices, students receive a share of information, prepare for classes, record lectures, view the textbook on the discipline. Negative impact on academic performance manifests itself in peeping answers and solutions to tasks on the test and on independent work; sitting in social networks during classes; distraction of students from educational material. Applications: The data obtained in the article can be used in social psychology, pedagogy, psychology of education, age psychology, sociology, as well as for further theoretical development of this issue. Novelty/Originality: The novelty and originality of the study lies in the fact that authors of the article reveal the positive and negative consequences of gadgets use by students in the classroom, as well as the motives for the use of gadgets in the educational process by teachers and students are shown.