Smartphones and Learning: Evaluating the Focus of Recent Research in the Field (66142)
Session Chair: Kurt Thumlert
Friday, January 6, 2023 (13:55)
Session: Session 4
Room: 322A
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
The smartphone has become an integral part of the learning landscape and has important implications for learning. Researchers have produced a bifurcated collection of studies that can be framed as positive (e.g., improve understanding, Clayton & Murphy, 2016) or negative (e.g., problematic use, Lepp, 2015). The topics addressed in smartphone and learning research can illuminate potential biases in research disciplines and merit investigation.
This study aims to identify the potential for bias through the analysis of smartphone research in two distinct fields, education and psychology. This study compares the recent smartphone research published in the education and psychology literature.
The methodologies used to address the research questions are standard bibliometric techniques applied to the smartphone literature cataloged in the Social Sciences Citation Index. Two datasets were developed utilizing the search and export functions. Both datasets included research that used smartphone as a keyword. The first dataset included research categorized as education and the second as psychology.
Three bibliometric analyses were completed with R, RStudio, and the Bibliometrix package. The first utilized an analysis of the author keywords for each dataset. The second involved developing and analyzing discipline-specific network maps of the co-occurrence of keywords. The final analysis used a qualitative comparison of highly cited articles in the disciplines.
The results of the keyword analyses reflected a bias towards topics such as addiction, depression, and anxiety in the psychological literature. In comparison, the educational literature utilized more neutral terms. Highly cited papers in both fields reflected explorations of negative outcomes.
Authors:
Kendall Hartley, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, United States
Bobby Hoffman, University of Central Florida, United States
Alberto Andújar, University of Almeria, United States
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Kendall Hartley is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, United States
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