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ENG2601 Assignment 3 (COMPLETE ANSWERS) 2024 - DUE 5 August 2024
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Banning mobile phones in schools can improve students’ academic
performance. This is how we know. Author: Louis-Philippe Beland
Published: March 21, 2021, 8.49pm SAST The effects of mobiles phones
and other technology at school is a hotly debated topic in many
countries. Some advocate for a complete ban to limit distractions, while
others suggest using technology as a teaching tool. Kids in public South
Australian primary schools started the school year without being
allowed to bring their mobile phones to class, unless they are needed
for class activity. All students in public Western Australian Victorian, and
Tasmanian schools have a mobile phone ban in place since for all or
some of 2020. New South Wales also banned mobile phones in public
primary schools, with secondary schools having the option to opt in,
since the start of 2020. Education departments have introduced the
bans for various reasons including to improve academic outcomes and
decrease bullying. Several recent papers point to positive impact of
banning mobile phones at school on student performance and other
outcomes. Understanding the evidence is crucial for best policy. In a
2015 paper, we used a method — called a difference-in-difference
strategy — as well as student data from England to investigate the
effect of banning mobile phones on student performance. In this
method, we compared schools that have had phones removed to
similar schools with no phone bans. This allowed us to isolate the effect
of mobiles phones on student performance from other factors that
could affect performance. We found banning mobile phones at school
leads to an increase in student performance. Our results suggest that
after schools banned mobile phones, test scores of students aged 16
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