Facebook articles (student engagement; review on students' and teachers' use)

A couple of interesting papers I encountered whilst searching for something else. They are in priced publications:

Junco, R. (2012) "The relationship between frequency of Facebook use, participation in Facebook activities, and student engagement." Computers and Education, 58 (1), 162-171. This study partly used the student engagement questionnaire that is a standard tool in the USA. There was an interesting correlation between people doing more active things on Facebook (e.g. signing up for events) and engagement. "This paper fills a gap in the literature by using a large sample (N = 2368) of college students to examine the relationship between frequency of Facebook use, participation in Facebook activities, and student engagement. Student engagement was measured in three ways: a 19-item scale based on the National Survey of Student Engagement, time spent preparing for class, and time spent in co-curricular activities. Results indicate that Facebook use was significantly negatively predictive of engagement scale score and positively predictive of time spent in co-curricular activities. Additionally, some Facebook activities were positively predictive of the dependent variables, while others were negatively predictive." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131511001825

Hew, K.F. (2011) "Students’ and teachers’ use of Facebook". Computers in Human Behavior, 27 (2), 662–676. This is a very useful review article. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563210003651
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