In the same way, research show that children,who constant use social network, were exposed to aggresive interaction between each other(American Psychological Association,2012). Thus, teenagers go online every day and neglect the negative consequences which social media may cause.The author appeals parents and school administrators to take the responcibility of the potential problem in order to convince teenagers to notice the social media’s…
First and foremost I would like to enlighten on the issue of Facebook’s bad influences on students results. Students who are addicted to Facebook tend to lose their concentration on their studies. This is mainly caused by the students’ uncontrolled time spent being on-line. They become too wrapped up with their activities, and fail to complete their school tasks, and finally fail to cope up with their studies.…
Researchers are calling today’s teens and college student’s “iGeneration,” a generation that is constantly connected to the internet and Facebook. New studies reveal the psychological effects of constant Facebooking. Some of the psychological effects are lack of empathy and increased aggression and traits associated with mental illnesses like schizophrenia and depression. Some other bad effects of social media are that it detracts teen from learning.…
It is inevitable to ignore the fact that nowadays social network plays an essential role in teenagers’ lives. Most youths are spending at least an hour in these popular social media sites. Generally, 1 out of 7 minutes which are spent online by most of those who can access internet is spent on Facebook according to Shea Bennett. One may ask how spending all that time on the social media sites may have a positive impact on them. Well, social media helps the youth and any other user updated with what is happening around the world, help the teenagers stay connected and interact with each other even if they are many miles apart. This strengthens their relationship even if they finished school and moved to different locations they stay connected and update one another.…
The purpose of this review is to observe the effect of Facebook on students. Facebook becomes an important part of everyday life for many people at any age. It keeps them connected to friends and family, but it also influences students in interesting ways. Although usage of Facebook has been blamed for everything from shorter attention spans to increase stress and obesity, in this review we found that social media site like Facebook actually has a positive effect on psychological well-being. Initially, this paper will provide information about how Facebook affects the daily activities of students and how student/faculty relationships affected by interaction on Facebook and is Facebook a blessing or a curse for students. This paper will also discuss about how Facebook or any other social network can be a used for academic purposes.…
Nowadays, social networking sites are very popular among people all around the world especially teenagers. In fact, social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter are names which are quite familiar to anyone of us. Furthermore, many of us make use of these social networking sites to stay in touch with our family and friends. This is because that these sites are cheap, fast and easy to access. However, the parents often feel worry for letting their teens use these social networking sites. In this case, a study I’ve founded stated that these sites have actually bring more benefits than harms to teens.…
In Partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Education (M.Ed) major in Educational Management, this research proposal entitled “ Factors Influencing the Academic Performance of Grade V Pupils in Science: Basis for Developing Intervention Program” has been prepared and submitted by SHERYL B. ROMERO, who is hereby recommended for the corresponding oral examination.…
Most students getting into MBBS program have a good academic track record upon entry into the medical school. In Malaysian medical school it is observed that each year about 10-15% of students have difficulty in completing their medical course on time and this is a concerned to medical educators and administrators. It is important to know the reasons why there is a marked change in their academic once they come to professional courses especially medicine. Clearly, there are numerous cognitive and non-cognitive factors that have a much stronger influence on medical students’ academic performance. Identifying the factors associated with students’ academic performance or academic achievement in the medical course will enable the medical educators, curriculum planner and policy marker to set up support systems to help them perform better. Many studies are carried out to explore factors affecting students’ academic performance or achievement. All of the research reviews support the hypothesis that students’ performance in the medical programme depend on different socio-economic and psychological factors (Syed Tahir Hijazi & Raza Naqri, 2006). Medical students are main assets of the medical schools or colleges. In view of that, the students’ academic performance and achievement plays an important role in producing the best quality graduates who will become great leader and manpower for the country thus responsible for the countries economic and social development. The performance of students in universities should be a concern not only to the administrators and educators, but also to corporations in the labour market. Literature Review on Factors Affecting Students’ Performance Up to date many studies have been developed concerning the…
According to ComScore, there are about 55.1% of 1.5 billion people visit website “ Facebook.com “ up to the end of November 2011. Facebook is a kind of Social Networking. Social Networking is an online service, people can share interests, activities, photos, videos… Not only do students use social networking, but many staffs of companies also use social networking to discuss working. Many people use social networking for many different purposes but they don’t know social networking also has many negative effects. There are three main negative effects of social networking that we can see easily, such as: affecting relationships, health or be cheated.…
The most popular social networking sites now a day such as Facebook is the largest networking site that has the most user members and as we say a lot of them are students. They used it to entertain their self, play games, chat friends, watch videos and even what we so called “cyber bullying” that cause such a big distraction on the study of every student but then it can also be useful in study, because there is group or even pages on the Facebook that talks about studying.…
Facebook is great for reconnecting with old friends from high school and college. But for those still in school, the popular networking site could do more harm than good. That’s according to Larry Rosen, a psychologist at Cal State Dominguez Hills who’s been studying the effect of technology on people for more than 25 years. Recently, he’s done several studies on how the social networking site affects children.…
We, Pearl Joy Garlene P. to Maglinte and Febe Tornalejo, hereby declare that, this THESIS is our original work and has never been presented any university or institution for any academic award.…
| We really need to take serious on this issue. Because , there are some disadvantages of Facebook that can affect students. Students take most of their time on facebook-ing. They seems have forgot to do something such as their homeworks. Using Facebook for your need is fine but when you waste most of…
Social Networking Sites are very easy way to access and the users have a lot of things they can do and get from these. That is why the researchers choose this topic, to ponder and to prove if Social Networking Sites really do affect their study habits and academic performance in school.…
This study is set to determine whether facebook can negatively affect students’ academic performance. A total of 50 men and female between ages of 17 to 28 years old were randomly selected to be the respondents of the study. A set of questionnaire were designed to gain primary data from the respondents about the causes of using facebook and respondent’s attitudes. The overall findings of the study shown that facebook does not have significant impact on CGPA because most of the respondents get CGPA above 3.00 and facebook does not affect their exam grades. In conclusions, some suggestions have been made to advise the respondents who addict to facebook, and to reduce the time of spending on their Facebook account. Besides that, the recommendations for future research have also been included in the final part of the report.…