Most U.S. College Students Now Prefer Digital Reading

[Sharon Foster]

Not entirely on point, but there has been a study of the effect of
interruptions on tasks like writing software that require a stretch of
uninterrupted thinking time. The "cost" of the interruption is considerably
more than the length of the interruption itself, as the person who is being
interrupted has to context switch from one task to another and then back
again. This is intuitively obvious to most of us.

I don't have the resources at my fingertips, but the article I'm thinking
of would have been in an ACM or IEEE publication, probably on software
standards and practices, approximately 10 years ago.

Sharon
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Sharon M. Foster
Information Wrangler

*“Are women citizens? Are we human? Does the Constitution not apply to us?”
~Rebecca in Harlem, 3/14/2012*



On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Sandford, Mark <SANDFORDM1 at wpunj.edu>wrote:

> Among our students, the most popular format is, by a good margin, whatever
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> retention of subject material.  Using a tablet as a reader introduces any
> number of instantly-available distractions, which is very dangerous to a
> generation that generally believes their brains are capable of efficient
> multitasking.  Is anyone aware of any studies that have looked into that?*
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> The majority of U.S. college students now prefer digital formats whether
> they’re reading textbooks or “fun” books, according to a new survey from
> the Pearson Foundation.
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> “Survey on Students and Tablets 2012” polled 1,206 U.S. college students
> and 204 college-bound high school seniors. Some findings:
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> —College students prefer digital over print for “fun” reading (57 percent)
> and textbook reading (58 percent), “a reversal from last year, when more
> students preferred print over digital.” Pearson says the trend is also
> apparent among high-school seniors (though it doesn’t break out which
> format the majority prefer), “and is mostly driven by an increase in the
> preference to use tablets for reading.” The study doesn’t ask whether
> students are using tablets or e-ink e-readers for reading.
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> —A quarter of college students now own a tablet, compared to just 7
> percent last year. Seventeen percent of college-bound high school seniors
> own a tablet, compared to four percent last year.
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> —Thirty-five percent of college students who own a tablet also own “an
> e-book reader or small tablet device.” (Not sure what a “small tablet
> device” is! Asking Pearson.)
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> —Among college students who own tablets, the iPad is the most popular (63
> percent), followed by the Kindle Fire (26 percent) and Samsung Galaxy Tab
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