How Teens Do Research in the Digital World
Prakken Publications
ED021302
$2.95Author(s): Kristen Purcell, Lee Rainie
Three-quarters of AP and
NWP teachers say that the Internet
and digital search tools have
had a “mostly positive” impact
on students’ research habits,
but 87% say these technologies
are creating an “easily distracted
generation with short attention
spans” and 64% say today’s
digital technologies “do more to
distract students than to help
them academically.”
These complex and at times
contradictory judgments emerge
from (1) an online survey of
more than 2,000 middle and high
How Teens Do Research
in the Digital World
By Kristen Purcell , Lee Rainie, Alan Heaps,
Judy Buchanan , Linda Friedrich , Amanda Jacklin ,
Clara Chen, and Kathryn Zickuhr
From the Pew Research Center
Kristen Purcell is associate director of research and Lee Rainie is
director, Pew Internet Project; Alan Heaps is vice president, The College
Board; Judy Buchanan is deputy director and Linda Friedrich is director
of research and finance, National Writing Project; Amanda Jacklin is
director and Clara Chen is coordinator, Program Strategy Management,
AP and College Readiness, The College Board; and Kathryn Zichuhr is
research specialist, Pew Internet Project. Condensed, with permission,
from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, November 1, 2012.
www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Student-Research.aspx, accessed
November 14, 2012.
school teachers drawn from the
Advanced Placement (AP) and
National Writing Project (NWP)
communities; and (2) online and
offline focus groups with middle
and high school teachers and
some of their students.
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