Social media and child academic performance in primary schools in Ibanda Municipality, Ibanda District
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2018-05
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Kampala International University ,College of Education
Abstract
Social media are web-based services that gives individual the opportunity to create either a
public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, add a list of others to with they share a
connection and view and transverse their list of connections and those made by others within the
system. Therefore, this study was carried out with the aim of examining the impact of use of
social media on students’ academic performance in Ibanda municipality. In other to measure
social media platforms a questionnaire was developed based on past literatures. The independent
variables include: time appropriateness, time duration, Nature of Usage, Health Addiction,
Friend-People connection and security/privacy problems while the dependent variable was
student academic performance. This research adopted cross-sectional and descriptive research
design. It also employed the use of cross sectional survey method using survey questionnaires
that contains 42 items with a Likert Scale (Disagree-i and 5 for Agree). The sample of 45
respondents was used from Ibanda municipality schools was selected using convenient sampling
method. The data collected was analyzed using description means and regression via SPSS 21.
The Pearson’s correlation coefficients of four independent are correlated with student’s academic
performance while two are not. However, using the regression analysis four variables is
significant which include: causes, nature of Usage and solutions while Time duration and
security/privacy problems are not significant. Thus considering the abnormal use of Social media
platforms by students in Ibanda Municipality Ibanda District
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A research report submitted to the college of education open distance and e-learning as a partial fulfillment for the award of bachelors’ degree in education of Kampala International University
Keywords
Social Media, Child Academic Performance