MTV News:
Did your school ban your iPhone? Here's why that actually isn't so bad
20 May 2015
It may seem like common sense that keeping smartphones away from kids would improve their performance at school. Now a study by the London School of Economics has the data to back it up. ... ''By surveying schools in four English cities regarding their mobile phone policies and combining it with administrative data, we find that student performance in high stakes exams significantly increases post ban,'' authors Louis-Philippe Beland and Richard Murphy wrote in the study's abstract. ''Our results indicate that these increases in performance are driven by the lowest-achieving students.''
This article was published online by MTV News on May 20, 2015
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Related publications
'Ill Communication: Technology, Distraction and Student Performance', Louis-Philippe Beland and Richard Murphy, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No.1350, May 2015
Related links
Richard Murphy webpage
Education and Skills Programme webpage
Richard Murphy CEP publications webpage