Research article · 2018 · Full text
International Journal of Statistics and Applied MathematicsImpact of the use of social media on students’ academic performance and behavior change
Volume 3(1) · Pages 299–302
Research areasOnline and Blended Learning
Abstract
Author-writtenThe purpose of this research study is to examine the impact of social media on students’ academic performance. A structural questionnaire was constructed to elicit information from 345 randomly selected students of Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University (MBSTU), Tangail, Bangladesh. Both univariate and multivariate analysis were used to meet he objective. The descriptive statistics were used to analyze the demographic data and educational information while a multiple regression model was applied to show the influence of social media on students’ academic performance. Research findings showed that a large number of respondents experienced negative effects such as late submission of assignment, less study time and poor academic performance due to the heavy participation on social media networks. A portion of the students provided positive feedback about the involvement with the terrorist and militant activities and the tendency to the predisposition with the political issues due to social media. To this end, the study suggested that social media should be used for educational purposes as well; social networking sites should be expanded and new pages should be created to enhance academic activities, avoid setbacks in the students’ academic performance; and students should be monitored by teachers and parents on how they use social networking sites.
Summary
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Why it matters
- Social media consists of electronic communication platforms, such as websites, used by people to share ideas, information, and personal messages. View evidence ↗
- While social media has benefits, it poses risks to students, including reduced study time, poor academic performance, and a decline in social behavior. View evidence ↗
The question
- The study aims to examine how the use of social media impacts the academic performance of students. View evidence ↗
What they did
- Researchers used simple random sampling to collect data via a structured questionnaire from 345 students at Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University. View evidence ↗
- The analysis involved univariate analysis for student characteristics and multiple regression analysis to determine the influence of social media on academic performance. View evidence ↗
- The key variables measured were average daily study time and time spent on Facebook, YouTube, and WhatsApp. View evidence ↗
What they found
- The majority of the study participants were male, accounting for 55.8% of the respondents. View evidence ↗
- Nearly half of the students reported studying for less than two hours per day on average. View evidence ↗
- Facebook was the most preferred social media platform (72.4%), followed by YouTube (19.6%). View evidence ↗
- Approximately 58.5% of the variation in academic results was explained by average study time and time spent on Facebook, YouTube, and WhatsApp. View evidence ↗
- The regression model indicated that while study time has a positive influence on academic results, time spent on Facebook, YouTube, and WhatsApp has a negative influence. View evidence ↗
- Study time, Facebook usage, and YouTube usage had partially significant effects on academic performance, whereas WhatsApp usage had an insignificant effect. View evidence ↗
What it means
- The authors concluded that academic performance increases with more study time and decreases with increased time spent on social networking websites. View evidence ↗
- The authors recommend that teachers provide counseling to students to reduce time wasted on irrelevant social media chatting. View evidence ↗
- The authors suggest increasing the use of LinkedIn due to its professional benefits, such as connecting employees with employers and posting resumes. View evidence ↗
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From the original paperIntroduction
Social media is defined as forms of electronic communication (such as websites) through which people creates online communication to share information, ideas, personal messages etc. Social media has become very popular and important to all ages of people. It contains several channels like audios/videos callings, blogging, communicating, texting, sharing contents all over the world and so many characteristics. At present social media is becoming a prominent part of life for many youth today. The uses of social media are increasing rapidly all over the world. In recent years, people are shifting from watching television and listening to radios to use social media. Thus the social media is impacting on human being living styles and on society especially on the students. In spite of having many positive aspects, there are many risks that come with the use of sites such as less study time, poor academic performance due to the heavy participation on social media networks and decadence of social behavior etc. In order to make the right choices about social media we must explore the current scenario by doing the research on the topic thoroughly. Now a day's people are introduced with various types of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Whats App, Linked In and so on. These are helping one to communicate with another instead of long distance. Thus technology is not only making people advanced, but also making them social. People from different stages are getting the benefits from the social media. Specially, students from schools, colleges and universities are being interested to get connected with various social media through Smartphone, computer and other technologically improved electronic devices. Lin et al. (2011) focusing on a study conducted primarily on the Facebook outcomes, which are used by international students in the USA shown that social media is one of the most important factors that affect students' academic performance. The researchers found that Facebook usage contributed to student ability to participate socially and culturally in their new environment. Choney, (2010) [2] , Meh Mood & Taswir, (2013) [10] , Kist (2008) [7] , Jacobsen & Forste, (2011) [5] , believe that the use of technology such as internet is one of the most important factors that can influence educational performance of students positively or adversely. Junco, Heibergert, and Loken et al (2011) [6] a study is conducted on 132 students in order to examine the relationship of social media and engagement of students with it and social media and grades of students. To examine this relationship the students were divided into two groups, one group use twitter and the other group did not use twitter account. It was used to make discussions about study material, organize the study groups in a manner, also post the announcements of class, and remain in touch with class fellows. Junco and his coworkers (2011) [6] surprised that the students of Twitter group achieve greater GPAs and higher scores than the other group. Martin, (2008) and Lusk, (2010) [8] also found that most of the people used social media like Facebook, Blogs, Twitter, My Space and LinkedIn for the purpose of communication, sharing photos as well as videos. However for the purpose of this study social media is captured within the use of internet through Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Skype, Myspace as well as Yahoo Messenger for communication sharing of ideas, sharing of photos and videos by users. The increased use of Social Networking Websites has become an international phenomenon in the past several years. Shambare et al. (2012) [11] conduct a study on Social networking habits among students and shows that Facebook is most widely used by a large number of students and have multiple effects on student's life. The high speed and quickly approach to internet and the development of smart phone technology are most important drivers behind the adoption and connectivity with social networking websites and conclude that SNS enhance their knowledge level. In a study Ahmad (2011) [1] showed that social networking sites have number of advantages for their users, it enable the community to keep in touch with their peers and relink with old ones and help to find new friends according to your interest from all around the and a large number of persons are linking with these networks. Hence the network of social media is growing globally. Davis et al (2012) [3] refer to social media technology (SMT) as "web-based and mobile applications that allow individuals and organizations to create, engage, and share new usergenerated or existing content in digital environments through multi-way communication". Popular social network platforms on mobile and web applications include Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Whats App, Instagram, snap chat, Google Plus etc. These platforms have specific roles, functions and modes of communication although their functions are mostly related. Modern technology has many positive aspects but in the same time, it may become hazardous for the users. It is therefore, the study is conducted, for the university students, how they feel and think the effects of social media on their academic performance and their behavior change. The main objective of this study is to explore the effects of social media participation on the student's academic performance.
Rationale of study
Rationale of study
Data and methodology
The study used a structured questionnaire to collect information on 345 students from Mawlana Bhashani science and Technology University by simple random sampling. Univariate analysis was used to explore the student characteristics and multiple regression analysis was used to show the influence of social media on students' academic performance. The important variables considered in this study are Average Study Time (Hours per day), Time spent on Facebook, Time spent on YouTube and Time spent on WhatSapp. SPSS and Microsoft office was used as software.
Result and Discussion
Result and Discussion
Profile of the respondent
The basic information of the respondent such as Age, Gender, Education etc. are showed in Table 1. The table shows that majority (55.8%) of the respondents was male. The table also reveals that 44.2 percent, 41.3 percent and 14.5 percent respondents' belonging to the age groups 18-20, 21-23 and 24-26 respectively. The table also shows that higher percentage of children obtained CGPA more than 3.50 followed by CGPA 3.25 to 3.50. It is very important to note that a very small percent (3.0 %) student achieved CGPA more than 3.75. One very important determinant of CGPA is study hours per day. The table shows that almost half of the students read on average less than two hours in a day. A very small portion of student reads more than 6 hours in a day on average. For this reasons higher CGPA obtained student are less compared to others student.
| Characteristics | Categories | Frequency | Percent (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age | 18-20 | 150 | 44.2 |
| 21-23 | 140 | 41.3 | |
| 24-26 | 49 | 14.5 | |
| Gender | Female | 152 | 44.2 |
| Male | 192 | 55.8 | |
| Study Time | <2 | 157 | 47.4 |
| 2-4 | 98 | 29.6 | |
| 4-6 | 47 | 14.2 | |
| >6 | 29 | 8.8 | |
| CGPA | <3.00 | 56 | 16.8 |
| 3.00-3.25 | 51 | 15.3 | |
| 3.25-3.50 | 108 | 32.3 | |
| 3.50-3.75 | 109 | 32.6 | |
| >3.75 | 10 | 3.0 |
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Regression coefficients
The Regression Coefficients are the constants in the regression equation that tells about the change in the value of dependent variable corresponding to the unit change in the independent variable. The value coefficient of determination (R 2 =0.585) implies that 58.5% of the variation in academic results is explained by the variations in the average study time; time spend on Facebook, YouTube and WhatsApp. The observed R 2 suggests that the multiple regression line fit the data reasonably. The other 41.4% variations not explained by the repressors are considered as for other explanatory variables that are not considered in this study. The result in the above table, the multiple regressions equation can be defined as, 𝑦 ̂= 2.797 + 0.645𝑥 1 -0.314𝑥 2 -0.043𝑥 3 -0.014𝑥 4 According to the fitted model, if the influences of the independent variables are not considered then the average CGPA is 2.797. The equation also shows that, there is positive influence of average study time(X1); negative influence of time spent on Facebook (X2), time spent on YouTube (X3) and time spent on WhatsApp (X4). That indicates that the average academic results increase for spending more time on study and academic results decrease for spending more time on social media. 4 shows that the p-value is 0.00(<0.05). Therefore, there is sufficient evident to reject the null hypothesis at 5% level of significant. It means that the average study time, time spends on Facebook, YouTube and WhatsApp significantly affect the student's academic performance.
F-test
F-test
t-test
The t-test is used to determine whatever there is any partial effect of each independent variables to the dependent variable. Table 5 shows that, the average study time; time spend on Facebook and YouTube have partially significant effects on student's academic performance. But the partial effect of time spend on WhatsApp is insignificant.
| — | Test Statistics | P-value |
|---|---|---|
| Constant | 22.682 | 0.000 |
| Average Study Time | 0.470 | 0.000 |
| Time spend on Facebook | -0.019 | 0.047 |
| Time spend on YouTube | 1.254 | 0.050 |
| Time spend on WhatsApp | 0.263 | 0.083 |
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Conclusion and Recommendation Conclusion
The primary objective of the research undertaken was to throw light on how effectively the usage of social networking sites has affected the students by evaluating both the positive and negative aspects. Social media serve to students' purpose of connecting them with people all across the globe by not hampering their working hours and schedules. Despite the several benefits that come with the participation of the students on social media networks, its misuse could badly affect the academic performance. The findings of this study showed that, there is positive consequence of average study time and negative impact of time spending on various social networking websites on students' academic performance. It indicates that, the educational performance increases by giving more time on study and decreases for spending more time on social networking websites. Above all, in the era of globalization and technology, a single day can't be thought without using social networking sites, but should be used in a limited and positive way without getting addicted.
Recommendation
Based on the findings and conclusions of this study, the following recommendations are made, The teachers may encourage the students to minimize time wastage on chatting and other irrelevant engagements which are not of major importance by counseling about the negative influence of social media. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) and parents should monitor activities of the students on social media in order to protect them pornographic and other unwarranted materials. The use of LinkedIn should be increased because the site gives the facilities of linking employers with potential employees, provides a place for individuals to post resumes and offers referrals and for employers to post current job openings.
Figures and tables from the paper
| Characteristics | Coefficients | Standard Error | P- value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Constant | 2.797 | 0.036 | 0.000 |
| Average Study Time | 0.645 | 0.020 | 0.000 |
| Time Spend on Facebook | -0.314 | 0.001 | 0.047 |
| Time Spend on Youtube | -0.043 | 0.001 | 0.050 |
| Time Spend on WhatsApp | -0.014 | 0.002 | 0.083 |
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| — | Sum of Squares | df | F | P-Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regression | 2.53 | 5 | 6.525 | 0.000 |
| Residual | 11.94 | 154 | 0.078 | |
| Total | 14.47 | 159 |
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- Davis CHF, Canche MSG, Deil-Amen R, Rios-Aguilar C. Social Media in Higher Education: A Literature Review and Research Directions. Arizona: The Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona and Claremont Graduate University, 2012.
- Heeter LS, Rainie L, Purcell K. Social networking sites and our lives, 2011. http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Technology-andsocial-networks.aspx, pp 3-61.
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