Assessment of the Impact of Social Networking Media on Students' Academic Performance in Higher Institutions: A case Study of Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro

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  • Jumoke Soyemi
  • Jamiu Olasina
چکیده

Social networking has recently gained widespread of use, both across the youth and adults. Its popularity is especially found among the youths, being a means of communication that is simple to use with the advent of internet enabled mobile phones. This study evaluates the impact of social networking on the academic performance of students using Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro as a case study. The assessment was done by conducting a quantitative research to properly analyze and give a clear picture of the study. The information in the study was carried out using structured questionnaire which was distributed randomly across 100 students spread within the school of Applied Science, Engineering, Environmental and Management Studies. The analysis of the survey was done using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20. The finding from this study is that students are influenced negatively to a large extent by the advent of social networking since much attention is focused on this rather than academic activities. Majority of students failed to utilize the social networking to their academic advantage. We also discovered that this wide spread trend in technology is uncontrollable among student and has seriously impacted on their academic performance.

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تاریخ انتشار 2016