Lennis Wilson Source 3

A)  Dreyer, Jordan. "The Effect Of Computer-Based Self-Access Learning On Weekly Vocabulary Test Scores." Studies In Self-Access Learning Journal 5.3 (2014): 217-234. Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson). Web. 17 Oct. 2016.

B) The question that I am going to be exploring in this journal is, what role does the use of computers for homework and studying play in student test scores and overall learning.

C) As of now, my research has showed that there is not necessarily a positive correlation between using computers for class and test scores.This source will be helpful to me because it contains multiple expirements related to my topic. While reading, I am noticing that there is some sort of positive correlation between the groups that were using computers for homework and quizzes, but it is very little.

Part 2: This article titled “The Effect of Computer Based Self Access Learning On Weekly Vocabulary Test Scores”, written by Jordan Dreyer, talks about the relationship between using computers and the website Quizlet and student test scores over a course of 12 weeks. The test was performed on a group of 96 students.

                In the end, there was hardly any measurable increase in test scores, and none of the increases were at all consistent, which still leads me to believe that computers play no significant positive role in learning. This source didn’t necessarily change my mind about anything, but it did shed some light on the fact that there has been a very small increase in test scores around computer based learning. This source definitely helps me with my research question, but does not fully answer as I am going to have to look at many other sources in order to come my final conclusion.

                This source would go hand in hand in hand with my 2^nd source. The second source shed light on the fact that there may be better ways to use money for resources for students, and this current source could back that up because in it, it shows there was no significant change in scores. While it goes with it, it also contradicts it a bit. Source 2 says that students who used traditional methods of learning had better scores, while source 3 refutes that by saying students whose learning was based on computers had better scores.

                With the 2 sources contradicting each other, this believes me that I need to expand my research and examine many more sources to come to a correct conclusion. Next I will try to examine more sources that contain studies like this one. Since I have only been looking at test scores, I could maybe try to dig a bit deeper and discover how the use of computers affects students’ abilities to learn and how it affects individual retention.