The Impact of Social Media on Students’ Academic

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 transvers 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 Malaysian Tertiary Institution. In other to measure social media platforms a questionnaire was developed based on past literatures. The independent variables includes: 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 descriptive and explanatory research design. It also employed the use of cross sectional survey method using survey questionnaires that contains 42 items with a Likert Scale (Disagree-1 and 5 for Agree). The sample of 102 students from Erican College 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: Time appropriateness, people-friend connection, nature of Usage and health addiction while Time duration and security/privacy problems are not significant. Thus considering the abnormal use of Social media platforms by students, it is expedient that Universities and colleges in Malaysia educate their students to positively use these platforms for educational purposes which will eventually result in a positive impact on their academic performance.

The Impact of Social Media on Students’ Academic Performance: A Case Study at the University of Jordan

“…The results of the second hypothesis test showed that the nature of use of social media is insignificant. This result contradicts the findings of previous work such as Mensah & Nizam (2016) who found a significant impact of nature of use of social media on students' academic performance. The reasons behind using social media diverse including academic and non-academic purposes such as sharing information, socializing, contacting friends, downloading music and videos…etc.…”

“…This result is consistent with the findings of Queder & Abousaber (2018). The most contributing factor in predicting academic performance was duration of use, followed by appropriateness of use; matching the results of other previous studies (Mensah & Nizam, 2016;Lambić,2016;Ainin et al, 2015). Whereas the results contradict the findings of the majority of previous work which either indicated a negative relationship between the use of social media and students' academic performance such as (Liu et al, 2017;Janković et al, 2015), those research where no significant relationship was found like Lau (2017), Rahman & Stephen (2016) and Rashid & Asghar (2016).…”

“…Samad et al (2018) conducted a study on female students at a major research university in Malaysia and reported a positive significant association between social presence, students' social well-being and their academic performance. Similarly, Mensah & Nizam (2016) collected data from 102 students and analyzed that data using mean and regression analysis. They found that several factors contribute to the effect of social media on students' academic performance, such as time appropriateness, peoplefriend connections, nature of use, and student health addictions.…”

The Effect of Social Media Networking Use in EFL Classrooms in Saudi Arabia: An Argumentative Review

“…Overall, these results, showing improvements in L2 skills combined with a mixture of positive and ambivalent attitudes to SNS use in language learning, reflected results from similar studies carried out in other parts of the world (Bosch, 2009;Selwyn, 2009;Ahmed & Qazi, 2011;Yunus, Salehi, & Chenzi, 2012;Kamnoetsin, 2014;Mensah & Nizam, 2016) and in other Arabic-speaking countries (Alfaki & Alharthy, 2014).…”

Gender variations in social media usage and academic performance among the students of University of Sharjah

“…In contrast, other studies showed a negative effect of social media usage on the academic performance of university students. Students who spent much time on social media platforms for chatting had a high probability of experiencing a decline in their academic performance 11, 12, 13. In addition, students who were deeply involved in the activities of networking sites during study lacked attention and were distracted 11 .…”