Query: Social Media Usage on Student Academic Performance

title: A Study on the Impact of Social Media Usage on Student Academic Performance: University of Tabuk an Example
abstract: The use of social media has met a rapid growth among the few past decades. This growth make it very popular for the communication amongst university students especially Tabuk university students. In fact, these social websites can be a good manner to exchange the information between students and even with their teachers. However, excessive social media can affect the student academic performance and make this use in question. This research tries to investigate about the benefits and the drawbacks of the social media use on student academic performance by conducting a survey on university students in Saudi Arabia especially in Tabuk university. The survey also explored which social network is the most popular amongst Tabuk university students and which one is useful for their academic skills. The survey has received 270 responses and descriptive statistics shows the relationship between the numbers of hours spent exploring the social media sites and the academic performances for the student. The results of this paper can be useful to propose an effective plan to enhance the academic performance for the students by improving the use of the social media sites.

title: The Explanatory Study on the Practices of Student's Social Media Usage and its Perceived Challenges on Academic Performance at Wolaita Sodo University
abstract: The internet technology of social media has clearly impact on academic performance. The purpose this study is to identify the practices of student's social media usage and its perceived challenges on academic performance at Wolaita Sodo University. The case study design and a qualitative explanatory research approach were employed. The availability samplings technique was used in the selection of the samples of the study. Twenty seven (27) participants (18 males and 9 females) for interview and nine (9) participants (5 males and 4 females) for FGD; total of thirty six (36) participants were included in this study. In depth interview was used as an instrument. The data was analyzed by using thematic analysis method. The findings indicated that all of students were engaged with social media by accessing Wi Fi, mobile data and Internet cafe. Majority of students use social media unmanageably and they spend long time on social media that is more than 3 hours per day. Majority of participants suggested that students should not use social media more than two hours per day. Reports of participants indicated that majority of students are not using social media for their academic purpose but they are using social media to watch movies, share/like comments, and to chat with friends. Majority of participants addressed that social media is not much more supported students learning because it disturbs them to focus on academic activity rather chatting with virtual friends. The reports participants portrayed that university students' are exposed to many challenges because of social media usage, like account hacking; watching pornography, education problem; unintentional loss of their priority to do academic endeavor and not focusing on academic activities. Based on the findings students are suggested to use social media for academic purpose and should be self disciplined in usage of social media by minimizing the time spending on it to focus on their education.

title: THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE TO ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
abstract: Social media is basically a tool for someone to interact with other people with use of internet. In futher, social media is not only used as a tool for interact with others, but it can be used on learning process. This study aims to analyse correlation betwen duration of using a social media with academic performance. This study used a cross sectional design. Respondents on this study are 126 undergraduates students on fourth years in Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Islam Sumatera Utara. Using of a social media are measured by how long a student use of a social media based on their purpose (learning or entertainment) Results from the measurement will grouping into two different group, that is using of a social media for learning group and for entertainment group. The academic performance was measured by calculating a Grade Point Average (GPA) of each student. The collected data were analyzed by using Spearman Correlation method. There was a significant correlation betwen duration of using a social media for learning process with academic performance (r 0,554, p 0,0001) Similarly, there are a significant correlation betwen duration of using a social media for entertainment with academic performance (r 0,568, p 0,0001) but the coefficient correlation have a negative value. The social media have an impact to academic performance, where the students who used more social media as a learning process have a good GPA and the students who used more social media as a entertainment have a bad GPA. Sugesstions that can be given based on this study are the use of social media can be considered as a tool for helping students enhancing learning process.

title: Effects of Social Media Usage on Academic Performance of Undergraduate Students
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.

title: Influence of Whatsapp and Facebook Social Media Usage on Academic Performance of Secondary School Students in Port Harcourt Local Government Area Rivers State Nigeria Dr Mrs
abstract: This study investigated WhatsApp and facebook social media usage on academic performance of secondary school students in Port Harcourt city local government area of Rivers State, Nigeria. Three hundred senior secondary school two students were used for the study. The study had aim and objectives, two research questions and corresponding hypotheses. It adopted the correlational research design. Two instruments; the "Social Media Questionnaire"(SMQ) and the English Achievement Test" (EAT) were used for data collection. Reliability of the instrument was 0.94 for the Social Media Questionnaire and 0.82 for the English Achievement Test. Simple and multiple regressions were used to analyze the data generated. Findings were that, WhatsApp has a significant value of 0.01 showing that there is a significant relationship of student"s usage of this platform on their academic performance, since the proportionate value is less than the alpha level which is 0.05, therefore, the null hypothesis is rejected. On the other hand, facebook had a significant value of 0.19 which has no significant relationship since the p value is high. Furthermore, there was a significant relationship of about 3.9% when all the social media platforms are put together, it affects students" academic performance. Based on these, it was recommended among others that government, parents, teachers, counsellors and school administrators should moderate student"s participation on the social media platform so as to use it positively and harness its gains extensively.

title: Exploring the relationship between social media usage and academic performances
abstract: Social media and academic grades are two of the most important things in an average student's life. Several factors play an important role in determining whether he achieves first class, second class, third class, or distinction. This study aims to find out the extent to which Social Media impacts the student's academic results. Using Pearson's Correlation test, the study determined that there was a negative impact of social media usage on academic performance. Furthermore, Pearson's Correlation test also showed us that the distraction caused by social media impact their academic performance. There is a high need to include various beneficial aspects of social media in a classroom's teachings. Instead of outright condemning social media usage by students, education systems and academics should try and make it a part of the educational curriculum. The longer the academicians try and stick to the age old teaching method from a constraint boundary of class and books, the more we unequip students from the necessary skillsets required to bring a change and lead.

title: Student Social Media Usage and Its Relation to Free recall Memory Tasks
abstract: Some studies reported that higher usage of social media is associated with lower performance in memory or other cognitive ability tests or lower academic achievement. The purpose of this research was to provide descriptive data regarding student social media usage and examine the relationship between the amount of time and frequency a certain platform was checked with the performance of memory tasks. The participants were high school and university students aged between 16 and 20. They took part in a free recall working memory task (WMT) after which they completed a Social Media Questionnaire (SMQ) Using regression analysis, it was found that Facebook/Instagram usage could not predict the task result and neither could the frequency of checking. Models tested separately for high school and university students and found that frequent Instagram checking was a positive predictor of the free recall task for university students. Additionally, Facebook usage related to Instagram usage and the frequency of Facebook checking related to Instagram checking. The results did not provide evidence to support the idea that social media is damaging to cognitive abilities, quite the opposite in the instance of Instagram checking by university students. A consensus on this topic is yet to be made and there is more research to be done.

title: How Social Media Usage Influences Student Learning Outcomes
abstract: The development of new information and communication technologies and their utilization in everyday lives and especially the involvement of new generation in the usage of these technologies for communication, for entertainment, for education, and other activities has raised a real problem of distracting of young generation from necessary information for professional and intellectual development. In this chapter, the influence of social networks on higher institution students' academic performance is considered. There is a trial to build analytical models and estimate the degree of social networks impact on student academic performance by using GPA grades. The problem of involvedness of young people in social networks and its impact on the study process and academic performance brought concern towards the quality of professional development in the Central Asian region. As it is a sustainable development provided by the country's economy, the educational system directly depends on younger generation's interest in study and wellbeing.

title: Social Media Analytics for Academic Performance of Students
abstract: Nowadays social media become the public platform around the world to discuss issues or for getting information, finding friends and many more. It is part for daily life which refers a common activity amongst children, youngsters and emerging adults. Excessive usage of social media may raise the question about the performance of students. Prediction of any event is always fascinating and very important part of the research. In this article, we predict student performance and success rate in terms of their academic result and estimate the relation between students based depending on use or misuse of social media. Data is collected from WhatsApp groups of the class of 50 to 60 students to get their conveying and participating pursuits in specific subject. Analytics would be generated from students' interconnection with educational systems and resources and other widely used social media apps. Analysis is based on how the students effected by media, purpose of use and the negative and positive impact on students. The age group used for prediction is between primary students to under graduate (engineering) students. Our result will reflect usage of social media, impact on their academic activity, and how to control the usage in college hours. This will also show the students movements on social media apps and devices are good predictors of academic performance or not.  Social media analytics, WhatsApp, academic performance Cite this Article Chanchal P. Kedia, Nilesh J. Uke. Social Media Analytics for Academic Performance of Students. ) 21 26p.

title: The impact of social media usage and addiction among student Siti Maheran Mohd Faudzi
abstract: The social network, which is one of the key indicators of the technology era, attracts all levels while virtual worlds over real life through the applications it offers. Especially young people show high interest in social media that is an extension of Internet technology. Social media addiction is increasing worldwide. This study aims to examines impact of academic performance in social media addiction among social student. Based on data obtained by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC, 2016) shows that Malaysia's broadband penetration rate reaches almost 78 percent. The study also found that those who are still in school spend the most time online, which is 20.9 hours a week. This this study. The two theories, the diffusion of innovations theory and the process virtualization theory posited that impact social media usage and addiction towards academic performance in student university.