Assessment Of The Use Of Social Media In Teaching And Learning In Secondary School

1.4 Research questions

1. What are the views of teachers and students on the extent to which social media affect students’ performance?

2. What are the challenges that teachers in Alaafin high school and Alaafin grammar school face in accessing social media?

3. What are the strategies that teachers use to minimize the challenges of attaining and using social media?

1.5 Significance of the Study

This study will be of immense benefits to students, teachers, school authorities, curriculum planner, educational stakeholders and Ministries of Education at different level of government. The finding from this study will be of immense benefit because it will enhance the learning processes of the students and thereby improve on their overall academic performance, since it will increase the motivation of the students, add clarity to the topics taught and make learning more interesting. Also, the result from this study will help to re-emphasis the need for teachers of secondary schools on importance of social media in promoting teaching and learning. And this in no small measure provides a basis that compliments and supports the use of teaching skills and enhances effectiveness.

Findings from this study will further help to reveal and create awareness among the school authorities of the importance or otherwise of the impact of social media on teaching and learning in secondary schools. Furthermore, findings from this study will have much significance on the ministries of education at all government level in Nigeria. This is because it will serve as a source of information to the government that the provision of social media will enhance teaching and learning and as well as enhancing academic performance.

1.6 Scope of the Study

This study investigates the use of social media in teaching and learning in secondary school in Nigeria.  Therefore, the respondents to be covered will be senior secondary school students in Nigeria.

1.7 Limitation of the study

This study faced limitation that need to be taken into consideration. Apart from the obvious time limit and the delicate subject matter, there were issues that arose from the methodological choices applied to the study. Some respondents were not willing to disclose accurate information needed for the validity of the study.

1.8 Definitions of Terms

The following terms were used in the course of this study:

Academic performance: is defined as successful completion, through effort, of the acquisition of academic content and skills mostly determined by the grades or scores that the student gets in a test.

Effective learning: is learning which develops understanding of learning in the changing world. Effective learning involves individuals moving beyond making connections of new ideas to old ones into restructuring their thinking radically by changing the connections among the things they already know or even discard some long-held beliefs about the world.

Learning: is the act of acquiring new, or modifying and reinforcing, existing knowledge, behaviours, skills, values or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information.

Teaching: teaching is the concerted sharing of knowledge and experience, which is usually organized within a discipline and more generally, the provision of stimulus to the psychological and intellectual growth of students by teachers.