EFFECTS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING ON THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
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ABSTRACT
The study investigated the effect of social networking on academic achievement of senior secondary school students in Abeokuta, Ogun State. The study had three research objectives, three research questions and three null hypotheses. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The population was 989 and the sample was 492, which was obtained using random sampling technique. Questionnaire was used to collect data for the study. The researcher, with the help of nine trained research assistants, administered the instrument in Secondary schools in Ogun. The research questions were answered using, mean and standard deviation, while 2.5 was considered as the baseline for answering the research questions. Simple regression was employed to test the three null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed, among others, that social networking had significant effect on students ‘class attendance, their personal studies and participation in group work. It was concluded that overindulgence of students with social networking on purposeless endeavours had negative effect on their academic achievement. Based on the findings of the study, three recommendations were made, some of which were that senior secondary school students in Abeokuta, Ogun State should devote less time to social networking as the study revealed it negatively affected their class attendance, senior secondary school students in Abeokuta, Ogun State should devote less time to social networking, as the study revealed that it negatively affected their personal studies, students in secondary schools in Nigeria should devote less time to social networking as the study revealed that it negatively affected their participation in group project work.
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