About two-thirds of surveyed parents resist educational smartphone use in schools, and more than half of them actively resist¶
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q2 i? 64.6% of parents resisted smartphone use in school, with 30% expressing passive resistance and 34.6% active resistance. → Hadad 2020
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Hadad 2020¶
Hadad, S., Meishar-Tal, H., & Blau, I. (2020). The parents' tale: Why parents resist the educational use of smartphones at schools?. Computers & Education, 157, 103984. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2020.103984
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Online questionnaire of 220 parents of elementary and secondary school students distributed via parent Facebook groups in 2018. The distribution of resistance levels (Figure 2) showed that "64.6% of parents resisted their children' use of smartphones"; percentages are descriptive, no effect size printed.
"As can be seen, 35.4% of the parents did not resist their children 's use of smartphones in learning. Compared to them, 64.6% of parents resisted their children' use of smartphones, 30% of them expressed passive resistance"
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Related Claims¶
- Parenting style is associated with resistance level: authoritarian parents show the highest active resistance while most authoritative and permissive parents do not resist — related
- Pedagogical resistance is rated lowest of the four resistance factors at every parental resistance level, while social and economic factors are rated highest — related
- Pedagogical and social resistance factors positively predict actual parental resistance, while an authoritative parenting style is a negative predictor — related
- Demographic and socioeconomic variables did not significantly predict parental resistance to educational smartphone use — related
- EFL students using smartphones initiate classroom activities significantly faster than peers doing identical paper-based activities — related
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