THE INFLUENCE OF SMART PHONES AND SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
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THE
INFLUENCE OF SMART PHONES AND SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES ON THE ACADEMIC
PERFORMANCE OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
ABSTRACT
The study
investigated the influence of smart phones and social networking sites on the
academic performance of secondary school students in Amwuwo-Odofin local
government area of Lagos State. Thedescriptive research design was adopted for
this study. Three (3) public secondary
schools were selected from the list of Public Schools in Amuwo-Odofin Local
Government Area of Lagos State using the Simple Random Sampling Technique. Two
hundred (200) students were selected using stratified Random Sample Technique.
The research instrument used was a four point modified Rennis Likert Rating
Scale Questionnaire type. Five research questions were raised and five
hypotheses were formulated. Data analyses was done using the descriptive
statistics of frequency counts and percentages to answer research questions
while the hypotheses formulated were tested using chii-square and t-test -
statistical tool at 0.05 level of significance. All stated null hypotheses were
rejected. The ' study concluded that smart phones has significant influence on
student's academic performance, social networking sites has significant
influence on student's academic performance, there was significant difference
on the effect of smart phones and social networking sites on academic
performance. Also, there was significant difference between smart phones usage
by male students and female students. Based on the findings, recommendations
were made that there is the need for schools counsellor to access the existing
use of smart phones by students in classroom and find a way to stop the usage
in the classroom.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1
Background of the study
The world is
a comprehensive cyber community that has been connected by a network of wired
and wireless devices through the World Wide Web (WWW). Today most of us have
secured a room in cyber space by having email accounts, doing online
transaction and through e-learning.
Social
networking sites are the main application under the umbrella of social media,
which comes with the Web 2.0 era. Social media is the fastest growing web
application in the 21st century.
Technology addiction
problem has been
treated important, especially
in the education field of secondary schools, because adolescent is more
vulnerable to the addiction. However, smart phones addiction has become a more
serious problem recently.
Smart phones
are the new generation of mobile phones; they have emerged over the last few
years and already have conquered the market. Smart phones with their mini
keyboards are not just phones, but have computer functions as email, calendar
and address book and office programs for reading and editing. The multimedia
phone features such as camera, video, sound recordings or podcasting is
advanced and can compete with specialized equipment.
With the
growing of gadgets
embedded in modern
mobile phones (particularly 3G and 4G phones) such as MP3,Internet and
the decrease in the size and price of such devices, mobile phones has become
omnipresent. The mobile phone is an anytime and anywhere tool, boosting the
tendency to the things discretely as well as openly. The fact is that with the
use Of cell phones, people sometimes lose the capacity to manage the boundaries
between appropriate and inappropriate usage. (Ling. 1997)
In this
current technology, the use of social networking sites(such as Face book,
twitter, WhatsApp, Skype, Instagram, e.t,.c) has become a common place for this
generation of college students (Hanson, Drumheller, Mallard, Mckee &
Schlegel,2011). Connecting to these social networking sites has become easier
and more convenient with the increased popularity of wireless technology. This
has contributed to an increase of more than one billion people logging on to
these sites daily. Young adults, 18_29 years old, are the most active user of
wireless technology, 81%are active users (Lenhart, Purcell, Smith & Zickuhr,
2010). The demand for social networking sites among college students is
significant.92% of all under graduates students are members of social media
(Junco & Cotton, 2012). As college students are increasingly adopting
social media, it is important for faculty and administrators in higher
education institutions to understand how this is influencing student's academic
performance.
1.2
Statement of the Problem
The
invention of technology such as mobile phones has no doubt brought about
immense positive progress to human societies, but this invention equally
brought about in its wake some observed attitudinal problems among secondary
schools students. However, this is not to say that these problems are solely
caused by the usage of these phones as there are other causes, but that the
attitudes of the users and the modes of the usage are significantly the
contributing factors especially in the 21st century. Scholars have identified
the problems associated with the phone usage and time (Junco, Merco and Salter,
2010_Wei and Lo, 2006), the attachment to phones (Gaser, 2006), in the face of
this, therefore, there is the need to establish the link between these
observations and academic performance. In analyzing the problem of these
internet phones, and in order to synchronize and have a clearer understanding
of the problem as it is related- to this study, it must be borne in mind that
other varying platforms of distractions towards the academic performance of the
secondary school students are also implicated, such as the computer usages,
which generate internet social networking sites, and the visual display devices
for relaxation such as televisions.
In addition
to this, there is high tendency of students to interact with their phone in the
class in the course of lectures, either to respond to received messages, or to
browse the internet. These, no doubt, take a heavy toll on the level of
concentration devoted to the lectures. Even while outside the classroom
environment, most students who use internet enabled phones devotes much time
interacting with their phones by chatting on Twitter 2go, Facebook, Instant
messages (Bbm, Yahoo messenger). Consequently, the time that ought to have been
devoted to study and other useful academic endeavours are thus frittered away.
In the light
of this problem and in locating the root cause of the problems posed by the
relationship between the students use of internet phones on their academic
performance, it is pertinent and imperative to carry out a study of this kind,
1.3 Purpose
of the Study
The general
purpose of the study is to determine the influence of smart phones and social
networking sites on the academic performance of secondary schools students and
they are stated below
i. To determine the influence
of smart phones on academic performance of school students.
ii. To ascertain the influence of
social networks on the academic performance of students.
iii. To determine the influence of
social networks on student study habit.
iv. To ascertain the influence of smart
phones on students level of concentration in class.
v. To determine the influence of
social networks on students access to learning materials.
1.4Research
Question
i. To what extent does smart
phones influence academic performance
of students?
ii. To what extent does social
networks influence students' academic performance?
iii. To what degree does social
networks influence study habits?
iv. To' what extent does smart
phones influence students' level of concentration in class?
v. To what
extent does social
networks influence students' access to learning materials?
1.5Research
Hypothesis
The
following null hypothesis were tested in the study"
i. There is no significant
influence between smartphones and students academic performance.
ii. There is no significant
influence between social networks and academic performance of students.
iii. There is no significant
influence between social networks and study habits of students.
iv. There is no significant
influence between smart phones and concentration level of students in class.
v. There is no significant
influence between social networks and students' access to learning materials.
1.6
Significance of the Study
As said earlier,
this study is about the influence of smart phones usage and social networking
sites on academic performance of secondary school students. This study will be
useful to students, parents, teachers, school administrator and school
counselor. The students as the receiver of knowledge in the school will
understand the ways by which usage of smart phones can affect their learning
performance.
Teachers in
schools will find these work useful as it will provide the rationale for
ensuring that students are been told how and when to use smart phones and the
ways they can benefit from social sites.
The school
administrator will see this work as one that can be relied on and as such come
up with rules that can put the commendation of this study into action.
The
counselor as a professional will apply knowledge gain from this work by putting
students through the use of smart phones and social networking sites, thereby
assisting them to perform well in their studies.
1.7 Scope of
the Study
The scope of
this study will be limited to Senior Secondary Schools in Educational Districts
(iv) of Mainland Local Government Area of Lagos State. It is worthy to note
that smart phones and social networking sites will be treated as two separate
variables affecting academic performance.
1.8
Operational Definition of Terms
i.
Smart Phone: any mobile communication device capable of accessing the
Internet.
ii. Social networking sites or Social
media: a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and
technological foundations of Web 2.0and that allows the creation and exchange
of user generated context (Kaplan & Haenlein, 2010).
iii. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device): trend of
using iPads, iPhones, Andriod phones, and sometimes even their own laptops, and
expecting to use this to gain access to corporate educational data(Miller,
2012).
iv. Mobile Learning: use of mobile or
wireless devices for the purpose of learning while on the move or learning that
takes advantage of mobile technologies.
v. Student: a person who studies at a
school, college or university.
vi. Internet: is a collection of computers
and computer networks located all over the world, all of which share
information by agreed upon protocols.
vii. Social Networking Site: this is an
online site that focuses on facilitating the building of social -networks or
social relations among people who share activities, interests, background thus
allowing them share ideas, events among themselves.
viii. Academic Performance: refers -to how
students deal with their studies and how they cope with or accomplish different
tasks given to them by their teachers.
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