INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE ON SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN ESAN WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, EDO STATE
Keywords:
Social Media Usage, Visit frequency, Time spent, Number of Membership, Students’ Academic AchievementAbstract
The study investigated the influence of social media usage on senior secondary school students’ academic achievement in Esan West Local Government Area, Edo State. Specifically, the objectives are to examine the influence of social media visit frequency, time spent on social media and number of memberships with social media on senior secondary school students’ academic achievement in Esan West Local Government Area, Edo State. The correlational survey design was employed in this study. The population of the study was 3,636 Senior Secondary School (SSS) students in the (16 public secondary schools in Esan Local Government Area, Edo State. The simple random sampling technique was adopted to select 20 Senior Secondary School Students from each of the 16 schools given a total of 320. The instrument was a “Social Media Usage Questionnaire (SMUQ)”. The test-retest method was used to determine the reliability of the instrument. The researcher personally collected students’ raw performance scores from the sampled schools. The simple linear regression analysis was used to test the hypotheses and all the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The result showed that influence of social media visit frequency, time spent on social media and number of memberships with social media significantly influence senior secondary school students’ academic achievement in Esan West Local Government Area, Edo State. It was recommended that student should set their priority right by taking advantage of social media more for learning, online discussion, seeking academic help from academic faculty, downloading materials for reading and research purpose, and for solving academic related problems.
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