The Impact of Background Media on Homework Performance: Students’ Perceptions and Experimental Findings

摘要: Although a series of studies have shown that television viewing can adverse effects on young people’s academic performance (Comstock & Paik, 1991), little is known about the processes by which may hinder students’ achievement. One possible explanation distracts students from homework because they do their home study in front an operating screen. Whereas pre-television generations could chose to combine doing with audio media, nowadays also television. According U.S. survey, secondary school frequently use background either or media — radio, compact discs, and cassettes (Patton, Stinard Routh, 1983). To our knowledge, there are no reliable data frequency European media.