INFLUENCE OF ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING USAGE ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AMONG SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL II STUDENTS IN ZARIA METROPOLIS
INFLUENCE OF ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING USAGE ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AMONG SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL II STUDENTS IN ZARIA METROPOLIS
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2017-11
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AGBO, Lilian Nwayiwuaku
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Abstract
The study examined the influence of online social networking usage on academic
performance among secondary school students. The study was guided by three research
questions and 3 null-hypotheses that were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Descriptive
research design using survey method was adopted. The population of the study consist of
5020 students which were drawn from six senior secondary students in Zaria, Giwa and
Sabon Gari Local Governments in Zaria metropolis. A simple random sampling
technique was used to select 10% of the population of the students consisting 502
respondents. The instruments tagged influence of online social networking usage on
academic performance among secondary students (IOSNUAP) developed by the
researcher and Mathematics and English tests developed by experts were used for
academic performance. Descriptive statistics of frequency counts, simple percentage
were used to present the demographic data of the respondent, mean score and standard
deviation were used to analyse the research questions. Independent t-test was used in
testing null-hypotheses one and two while analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used for
hypothesis three. All hypotheses were tested at 0.05 alpha level of significance. The
result indicates significant influence of online social networking usage on academic
performance of male than female in Zaria metropolis. This suggests that the academic
performance of the male is lower than that of the female because of the influence of
online social networking usage has on their academic performance. Age bracket 12 – 14
in Zaria metropolis had negative significant influence of online social networking usage
on their academic performance. This suggests that online social networking usage has
negative influence on age bracket 12 – 14 years than 14-16. Very frequent users had
higher negative influence of online social networking usage on academic performance in
Zaria metropolis than their counter parts. This suggests that all the users had influence of
online social networking usage but the negative influence is more on the very frequent
users. The researcher recommended among others that counsellors should adequately
mentor students on the influence of online social networking usage.
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A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE
STUDIES, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER DEGREE IN EDUCATION GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY AND COUNSELING, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, NIGERIA
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INFLUENCE,, ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING,, ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE,, sENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL,, STUDENTS,, ZARIA METROPOLIS,