Child Rights and Wellbeing Impact Assessment (CRWIA) for Guidance on Mobile Phones in Scotland's Schools

Annex A

ⁱ What are parents' and children's co-constructed views on mobile phone use and policies in school? -

Rose - 2022 - Children & Society - Wiley Online Library

Banning mobile phones in schools: evidence from regional-level policies in Spain | Emerald Insight Ill Communication: Technology, distraction & student performance - ScienceDirect

Secondary education teachers’ perceptions of mobile phone and tablet use in classrooms: benefits, constraints and concerns | Request PDF (researchgate.net)

The effects of mobile phone use on academic performance: A meta-analysis - ScienceDirect

The influence of technology on academic distraction: A review (wiley.com)

Technology in education: GEM Report 2023 | Global Education Monitoring Report (unesco.org)

Behaviour in Scottish schools: research report 2023 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

To ban or not to ban – domestic and international experiences of restricting mobile phone ban use in schools. - Record details - EBSCO Discovery Service

restriction-or-resilience_report_june_2025_abc.pdf.pdf DCU Anti-Bullying Centre

What is the evidence for school smartphone bans? | The BMJ

School phone policies and their association with mental wellbeing, phone use, and social media use

(SMART Schools): a cross-sectional observational study - The Lancet Regional Health – Europe

Smartphone use and mental health: going beyond school restriction policies - PMC

The Impact of Cellphone Bans in Schools on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Florida | NBER

School Cell Phone Bans: Listen to Researchers and Stakeholders | Shanker Institute

Factsheet Monitoring research National agreement mobile phones and other devices | Report | Rijksoverheid.nl

Student perspectives on banning mobile phones in South Australian secondary schools: A large-scale qualitative analysis - ScienceDirect

"Phones off while school's on": Evaluating problematic phone use and the social, wellbeing, and academic effects of banning phones in schools. - EBSCO

Evidence for and against banning mobile phones in schools: A scoping review

Policy Exchange - Disconnect The Case for a Smartphone Ban in Schools

Full article: Complexities of Managing a Mobile Phone Ban in the Digitalized Schools’ Classroom

Banning Mobile Phones from Classrooms--An Opportunity to Advance Understandings of Technology Addiction, Distraction and Cyberbullying - EBSCO

ⁱⁱHow students view themselves and their schools - Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA 2022): Scotland's results - highlights - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) (Table 5.6). This study uses the terminology of student rather than pupil. This is used in the CRWIA to be consistent with the research.

ⁱⁱⁱFor example, ` Young carers advocate for access to mobile phones at school | The Herald

(heraldscotland.com); Should there be a mobile phone ban in school classrooms? - BBC News

^ivMobile phones in schools consultation shows broad support for restrictions during the school day – The City of Edinburgh Council