Constructivism Theory: The Factors Affecting Students’ Academic Performance in Higher Education

Abstract

This paper aimed to use social media impact on student studies in higher education. Apart from enjoyment and academic purposes, many educational practices and processes have been influenced by social networks. This paper highlighted the use of media tools in higher education as well as indicates out some of the factors. Moreover, through a literature review of related articles, we aim to provide insights into the impacts of a social network on educational quality, actual use of social media, and performance impact in higher education. A questionnaire survey on constructivism was circulated among a total of 206 university students as the key method for collecting data. This research hypothesizes educational quality and actual social media use indicates a positive effect in education, all of which also hypothesizes constructivism for educational quality and actual social media that in turn improve students’ satisfaction, and performance impact. Moreover, all research findings were attained through a quantitative method using the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM-AMOS). Findings of this research to indicate a positive effects students on their academic through behavioral intention to utilize social media to actual social media use for teaching and learning on higher education. Moreover, the results mention the use of social media for learning purpose, as well as social media to enables the sharing of knowledge, discussions, and information to enhance students' learning activities, Further studies are recommended which universities educators should take this into consideration when planning their curricula; it comes to the inclusion of technology in the teaching process.

The Influence of Information System Success and Technology Acceptance Model on Social Media Factors in Education

“…The empirical research has been used to investigate and validate the relationship between attitude components and PEOU in the IT literature. Several studies used a variety of methods for usage, and the results are consistent with those created in TAM, indicating that the two philosophies in TAM are significantly related to attitude [19,28].…”

“…The study by [27] suggested that perceived usefulness can be determined by the adoption of the technology and students' responses to IT use and adoption [25,27,28]. Perceived usefulness refers to individuals' belief that using a certain system would improve their performance [29].…”

“…Consequently, our study describes PEOU as the degree to which any student believes that using social media will be effortless. As declared by the authors of [28], "an application perceived to be easier to use than another is more likely to be accepted by users". As a result, the link between behavioral intention to use and PEOU is proposed in this study.…”

Using Structural Equation Modeling to Assess Online Learning Systems’ Educational Sustainability for University Students

“…Several studies, including Ali et al, [7], Choi and Lam, [11] and Samsudeen and Mohamed, [12], have acknowledged the importance of e-learning in high-quality educational offerings. For example, it provided various e-learning benefits such as access from anywhere and at any time, enhanced student motivation, access to more advanced or novel learning methodologies, opportunities for self-directed education and adoption, improved ICT device arrangement, and increased maternal participation [13,14]. Empirical evidence reveals that academicians in local HEIs employ E-learning to a limited extent [15,16].…”