Almost every day, a new gadget or media device is introduced to the world. Specifically, these gadgets are mostly used by students to aid them in their scholastic purposes or just mere leisure usage at home.
Based from the Recency Effect Theory of Miller and Campbell (1959), our mind retains information that is recently gathered from certain events and observations in our surroundings. The Recency Effect Theory also stated that given a list of things to memorize on a certain amount of time, we will have a propensity to recall easily the things that are located on the last part of the list as compared to those in the middle.
On the online website of Curtin University’s Student Transition and Retention Team, the makers of the Retention Theory, they pointed out that there are about ten variables that comprises the student’s ability to retain information, these included: individual attributes, student finances, developing relationships with prospective students, addressing the impact of pre-university education, goal commitment, institutional commitment, quality of teaching and learning, peer-group interaction, faculty interaction, and the graduate’s relationship with the University.
Figure 1 on the next page shows the flow and relationship from the Recent Effect Theory and Student Retention Theory, on which these two coincide with media devices.
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