Media Background and Test Performance

Seattle Children's Healthcare System

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Test Performance When Distracted or Not

Treatments: Other: TV

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01593878

Distracted Homework

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to test whether middle school students test performance is affected by background TV. Students will complete a high school entrance exam either with or without a TV on in the test room. Scores will be compared.

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 15 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Grades 6-8

Exclusion criteria

• non english speaking

Trial design

0 participants in 2 patient groups

TV

Experimental group

Description:

Test taken with TV on

Treatment:

Other: TV

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

test taken in quiet