United States and European Students' Social-Networking Site Activities and Academic Performance

the relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in english and general subjects of the students of high school

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...

Cultural differences in social networking site use: A comparative study of China and the United States

This research compared social networking site (SNS) use in a collectivistic culture, China, and an individualistic culture, the United States (US). Over 400 college student participants from a Southwestern University in Chongqing, China, and 490 college participants from a Midwestern University in the US completed a survey about their use of SNSs – time spent, importance and motives for use. Th...

Extra-curricular activities and academic performance in secondary students

The Relationship between Dependence on Mobile Social Networking and Academic Performance of Students (Case study: Second Grade Male High School Students of Tabriz City)

This research aims at the relationship between dependence on mobile social networking and academic performance of second-grade male high school students in Tabriz City. This research is an applied research based on descriptive-correlational methodology. Statistical population of this research includes all second-grade male high school students in the academic year of 2016-2017 whose volume is 2...

International Students’ Acceptance on using Social Networking Site to Support Learning Activities

The increasing numbers of international students studying in UCSI University necessitates research into appropriate ways to support cultural diversity in teaching and providing learning tools for them. International students usually face problems in adapting to culturally different education system and this complicates the discipline specific skills that they have come to learn. In addition to ...