Social Media Impact on Academic Performance of Secondary School Students: the Case of Ayertena Secondary School
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2023-09
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Addis Ababa University
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Nowadays social media become part of human day-to-day activities, including students. Findings of different studies show that teenagers use social media in their daily activities. Studies also indicate that social media has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantages are supporting students’ academics through applying for teaching aids like group discussion, and the disadvantages are wasting students' time, and thereby lack of focus on their academic study. Ethiopia's young people are engaged in an enormous use of social media. Most of these youths and teens are students who are engaged in accessing and using social media. Because of these researchers assess the relationship of social media use with the academic performance of students. Academic performance or achievement, which measures how well a student, teacher, or institution meets its learning objectives, is used to measure the results of education.
The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of social media on the academic performance of secondary school students and to propose a framework for the proper use of social media.
A quantitative research approach is adopted in this research. With the research goal actionable insight is tied to a statistical conclusion. It is done at Ayertena secondary school students by collecting data via questionnaires from 351 social media users from 9th to 12th-grade students.
The analysis results reveal that social media use has a significant impact on the academic performance of secondary school. The research investigates the impact through four factors of social media use which are knowledge, communication, pastime, and entertainment. There is no significant relation between those who use social media for communication and academic performance. As the average time they spend on social media increase, their academic result decreases. Based on the result, a framework was proposed for improving social media use by Ayertena secondary school students. The researcher adopted an acceptable use policy and the analysis result for framework design. The variables are the social media use factor (for knowledge) and average time spent in a day on social media that has a relation to giving results of above a very good academic performance. It was proposed that management assistance, School readiness and students’ readiness would enhance improved social media use.
A survey questionnaire was used to validate the framework among experts and users. The experts and users that analyze the framework on average come up with highly positive results. All of them concurred that it would be beneficial for social media use without having an impact on student's academic performance.
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Social Media, Academic Performance, Secondary School Students