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The Impact Of Social Media On Students Academic Performance In Higher Institutions
[A CASE STUDY OF KWARA STATE POLYTECHNIC AND UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN]
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As related to this research exploratory study, the previous statistics indicate that social media tend to have the highest usage rate among traditionally – aged higher institution student (that is those under 30years).
The academic performance of these students, social media and academic performance, the issue of where social media helps or hurts or a student academic performance is often couched in larger issues identified with the overall use of social media (e.g. it psychological effect, privacy & safety concerns, individual self-discipline and self regulation concerns, human adaptability concerns) Roseri and Conolly 2011.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Social media website, such as facebook, twitter and linkedIn) are currently used by many people to connect with their friends and relative around the globe (Dale and Lewis 2013). The use of the various social media platforms has grown so fast that it has even attracted the attention of higher institution students; they are so engrossed in the site that they have almost completely forgotten about their academic work higher institution student are considered victims of social media site more than group of people as they negatively impact of their academic performance (Windham, 2007).
Higher institution students easily get tempted to use the various social media platforms when trying to obtain learning material online. In most cases, the students end up spending almost all their times on the social media and forget about the course materials they originally intended to look for (Guffery & Almonte, 2010).
Social media serve as a significant distraction for academic performance of student. Facebook, the most popular social media site, was specifically design for undergraduates and is the most popular social media site, was specifically designed for undergraduates and is the most frequently used. Therefore, time spent on social media may affect academic performance. For example time spent on facebook may directly affect and/or moderate the relationship between traditional predictors of academic performance (i.e. ACT scores, high school GPA, study time, etc and college GPA vital to the lives of many college student.
Addition of social media increase short attention spans and subverted higher – order reasoning skills such as, concentration, persistence and analytical reasoning among students frequently use social media; a tendency to overestimate one’s ability to multi-task and manage projects; and technology being seen as a substitute for the analytical reasoning process.
The risk plays a vital role in student’s academic performance to various degrees and at various times.
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The purpose of this study was to begin exploring the possible impact of social media use on the academic performance of students attending the selected higher institution is Kwara State. The study primary goal is to identify key themes, trends and/or perception that can be used as a foundation for more in-depth empirical research, and can be used to develop policy recommendation to deal with this growing phenomenon.
A qualitative research design was used and three preliminary research question were formed to guide this study. How common is the use of social media (i.e. facebook, myspace, twitter & LinkIn) among college students for those students who do utilize social networking site on average? How long do they on those site collectively per day and/or per week? How does the academic performance of students compared between students who utilize social media sites and students who do not use social media sites? Findings from this seem to confirm performance.
In addition student ability to concentrate on the task at hand is significantly reduced by the distractions that are brought about by the social media tools. The more time students spend on social media and the spread at which information is published, has created a lax attitude towards proper spelling and grammer. Thus reduces a student’s ability to effectively write without relying on a computer’s spell check features.
Social media has emerged as a term frequently used to describe different types of communication platforms and electron ways of interacting. This research work will utilize the definition of social media developed by Bryer and Zavataro (2008) as being “technologies that facilitate social interaction, make possible collaboration and enable deliberation across stakeholders.
Utilizing the definition, social media includes such tools as electronic blogs, audio/video tools (e.g. YouTube), Internet chat rooms and others. While all the previous tools can and do facilitate the impact of social media on student academic performance.
Social media specifically refer to those interact – based services that promote online social interaction between two or more persons within a bounded system for the purpose of friendship, meeting other persons and/or exchanging information contain a functionality that lets users create public or semi – public personal profile page that contain information of their own.
In conclusion the purpose of this study was to explored the impact of social media on students academic performance in the selected institution in Kwara State.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACT In this study an attempt was made to examine whether there is social media impact on students academic performance in higher institution. A close ended questionnaire was administered to the students of Kwara State Polytechnic and University of Ilorin to elicit responses about impact of social media on their performance. The data obtain was analyzed using table some findings was formulated to direct the study were accepted. Thus, there is significant impact of social ... Continue reading---
