ACHE 2016

Thinking (Concurrent Session): 60-75 minutes

This session aims to assess higher education student learners’ exposure to media and the subsequent influences media has upon their social and study habits. Student learners maintained a self-reporting journal for seven consecutive days in order to understand their own use of time and the influence of engagement with various types of media. The objectives of the study are threefold. First, to understand and explain student learners’ media exposure time. Second, to understand the relationship between student learners time engaged with media and how it affects other social habits such as sleep and study habits. Third, to discuss the relative importance of the aforementioned factors in impacting student experiences versus student perspectives of time. The results indicate that media exposure and other social activities may result in less time devoted to studying, thus affecting their academic excellence and accomplishing their day-to-day social habits. 

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