Effects of Social Media Usage on Academic Performance of Undergraduate Students
Autori:
Sevilay ARSLAN
Cod: ISSN: 1583-3410 (print), ISSN: 1584-5397 (electronic)
Dimensiuni: pp. 329-345
How to cite this article:Arslan, S. (2018). Effects of Social Media Usage on Academic Performance of Undergraduate Students. Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala, 63, 329-345. |
Abstract:
Social media has gained widespread and universal usage among higher education
students and started to serve as a new communication platform in teaching and
learning process. This article presents the results of a survey study conducted to 394
undergraduate students to analyse the relationship between the variables of social
media usage and undergraduate student’s academic performance. Additionally, to
explore the relationship between using social media in communication activities
for academic purposes and undergraduate student’s academic performance are
among the main concerns of this study. The relationships between mentioned
variables were studied by correlational method in descriptive manner. Research
results reveal once again the high level of social media usage among undergraduate
students to perform variety of daily activities. It has been also determined that,
social media as an out of class environment that allows communication about
academic issues plays a weak but positive role to increase the level of being more
active in class and time spent for preparation to the course before class that are
all related to higher academic performance.
Keywords:
academic communication, academic performance, higher education, new media, social media.
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