Twitter Can Improve Students' Grades
Engage them, and they will learn. That’s the lesson at the core of new research that shows that Twitter is a potentially powerful tool for educators looking to increase student engagement and even their grades.
The research group for this Twitter experiment was admittedly small: 125 students from a first-year pre-health university course over one semester. 70 students were in the Twitter group and 55 students were used as the control.
Researchers measured student engagement at the end of the semester, and found that the Twitter group had a significantly greater increase not only in their engagement with the course material, but in the grade point average as well compared to the control group.
One of the study’s co-authors, Greg Heiberger of South Dakota State University, has this to say about the use of Twitter outside the classroom:
“To some extent, it does add to the faculty member’s level of commitment but it...
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