Study Time: Temporal Orientations of Freshmen Students and Computing.

Anderson, Kenneth T.; McClard, Anne Page

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Publication Date: 1993

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Study Time: Temporal Orientations of Freshmen Students and Computing.

Anderson, Kenneth T.; McClard, Anne Page

Anthropology and Education Quarterly, v24 n2 p159-77 Jun 1993

Examines student domains of study and time and how these relate to use of innovative computing facilities in a dormitory for 61 first-year college students at Brown University in Providence (Rhode Island). This ethnographic study points out how student conceptions of time differ from those of others and how this affects their use of personal computing facilities. (SLD)

Descriptors: College Freshmen, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Dormitories, Educational Technology, Ethnography, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Study Habits, Technological Advancement, Time Factors (Learning), Time Management, Time Perspective

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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