Results of Student Survey About My No-Laptop-in-Class Experiment

are in this memo I wrote to my colleagues (with pie charts). Summary:

What effect did the no-laptop policy have on Strongly negative Slightly negative Neutral Slightly positive Strongly positive
… your concentration in class? 2% 8% 19% 40% 31%
… your finding the class time interesting? 0% 6% 42% 29% 23%
… your learning the material? 4% 19% 41% 19% 17%
… the usefulness of your notes for studying? 19% 33% 21% 12% 15%
… your overall enjoyment of the course? 0% 12% 34% 29% 25%

With this in mind, let me offer a few suggestions to my fellow professors:

(1) If you think a no-laptop policy might help, experiment with it. I

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