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Running head: RESEARCH DISCUSSION 1
RESEARCH DISCUSSION 6
Final Project Milestone Five Research Draft
LaPorscha Terrell
PSY-22TW5
Dr DeLinda Terry
October 12, 2022
Final Project Milestone Five Research Draft
In evaluating the hypothesis that students' addiction to social media does not significantly affect their academic performance, forty-one participants were asked to fill out a questionnaire, and the collected data was analyzed using SPSS. This study's findings indicate that students' propensity for social network addiction negatively affects their schoolwork. The study methods used include subjecting the participants to different treatments, that is, music categorized into rock music, classical and white noise during a math exam. The participants were required to fill out a questionnaire about their experiences to understand the influence of social media through the content it has as classical or rock music, and their feedback was analyzed. The findings showed that there were significant differences in the math performance score between the participants experiencing Rock, Classical and white music. The significance level was 0.05 (Warner, 2020). Currently, there is a heavy reliance on students on social media, and the influences of the platform on the student's academic success are different based on the content they receive through social media. Some students use social media for academic reasons, which are the ones that get significant value and better academic excellence compared to those that access content that is of limited value to them. Students' use of social media was found to significantly influence their academic performance, refuting a theory that had suggested otherwise (Warner, 2020). This study's findings indicate that students’ use of social media has a notable impact on their schoolwork.
These findings are consistent with those of John & Emefa (2018), who found that modern students spend nearly all their waking hours online. Some students, even in classes and lecture halls, are constantly on their phones, pinging, going, or updating their Facebook statuses while teachers speak. The enthusiasm for making new acquaintances online and usually occupied debating unimportant problems has squeezed time that should be spent on learning, academic research, and innovation. Because of this, most students' academic progress is hindered by time spent on social media.
The other concern that was examined was that students' academic performance at Southern New Hampshire University was significantly affected by their use of social media. The information that was analyzed using the SPSS software was utilized to determine whether or not this hypothesis was correct. The research confirmed the hypothesis that social media use was significant in college students' academics. It was discovered through this research that students' use of social media significantly affects their grades at Southern New Hampshire University. This agrees with the findings of Borah et al. (2022), who found that the increased popularity of the Internet has been a worldwide phenomenon for some time now. What began as a pastime for a small group of computer experts has become an integral part of the culture and way of life for millions of people worldwide. The study is consistent with the findings of Talaue et al. (2017), who found that, unlike previous generations, today's college students rely primarily on social media for their day-to-day activities and information collecting. The study showed that there is a possibility that students rely on social media for several reasons, and this includes the social reasons that are of value to the student's stay in college. There are the students that adopt the platform for academic interactions, and this is where they learn better in subjects like math and master the best skills sourced from colleagues leading to good academic grades. The research findings have better shown how the intention and use of social media determine college student grades. Effective use results in good grades and use for negative intentions affect grades.
Areas of Future Research
The area of social media is considered a technological revolution that changed the communication and social sector significantly over the few years. Social media come with much criticism about the negative influence it has on the physical interactions and social relationship people would have. It is amazing that social media significantly influenced the world's small villages where people can communicate without any geographical barrier. Social media in colleges is considered a challenge and negatively influences on student academics, but the fact remains that the influence that social media have depends on the intention and the use of the student. Future research should be directed towards looking into the intentions of students using social media to measure the value that academic intention, primarily through online academic consultation, has in student academics (John & Emefa, 2018). Future research should also consider the aspect of gender on the issue of music choice, like in Classical and Rock music and the influence it has on the student academic grades. The other area that needs more research is how social media technology can be leveraged and incorporated into the classroom to significantly benefit students' academic grades. Studies like this one need to be replicated at other institutions across the country if we want to see real change in how students use social media for learning and if we want to see more students using these networks for research and academic activities rather than letting themselves get sidetracked by the many distractions that exist online.
Limitations and Ethical Consideration
The limitations in the study are that the students involved in the study are from a single institution that is Southern New Hampshire University, which contributes to the biasness in the results being more relatable to the specific institution. There is a limitation in that the findings sourced from the research would only apply to Southern New Hampshire University. There was the need to eliminate the biasness by involving colleges and universities from other regions to ensure that their responses to questionnaire questions would result in findings representing the entire region or country. The other limitation, especially in the method of using music to ascertain the influence it has on the math exam, gives a limit to the non-music lovers and those that are not influenced by any noise making the findings less significant. There is also a limitation to the math subject in the findings because there is a possibility other subjects would have different scores when the participants are subjected to the music noise.
The aspect of ethics was much considered in the research, and it was evident that the participants were asked for their consent before participating. Seeking the participants' consent is an essential ethical requirement that protects the participants that their data is secured and only shared with their consent offered first (John & Emefa, 2018). The researcher has assured participants that their data is secured, and their identity masked to ensure that the research is only used for purposes of meeting the study needs and no further use, and if necessary, then the participant consent is necessary. The data is well protected from possible breaches to avoid exposure to unauthorized parties.
References
John, B, K., & Emefa, D, P. (2018). Effect of social media on the academic performance of students in Ghanaian universities: a case study of the University of Ghana, legion.
Talaue, G., Alsaad, A., Alhugail, A., & Alfahhad, S. (2018). THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SELECTED COLLEGE STUDENTS. Retrieved from http://aircconline.com/ijait/V8N5/8518ijait03.pdf
Warner, R. M. (2020). Applied statistics II: Multivariable and multivariate techniques. Sage Publications.