Effect of Chats on High School Students' Comprehension and Memory of Video Lectures

• In Event: 52.083 - Roundtable Session 19
  In Roundtable Session: 52.083-13 - Designing Digital Learning Environments

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine high school students’ learning by looking at the effect of chatting with friends on their comprehension and memory of video lectures. Two videos were selected and two settings (chatting and no-chatting settings) were created. Students were asked to watch one video without distraction, and to watch another video while being interrupted by a friend to chat with them. The results of the students’ video lecture comprehension and memory quizzes showed that they scored lower while chatting with friends, and that they scored differently between the two videos when chatting with friends.

Authors

• Mike Schellen, University of North Texas

• Lin Lin, University of North Texas

• Chris William Bigenho, Greenhill School