DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIETY Volume 35 Number 1‚ June 2006‚ pp. 107~123 A STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF INTERNET USE AND SOCIAL CAPITAL ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE* BAE YOUNG Soongsil University This study examined the condition of Internet use and social capital‚ as well as its effects on teenager’s academic performance. We analyzed survey data of 361 high school students. The study findings suggest that the Internet expands its reach to teenagers’ school life. First‚ students are more reliant on the Internet
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better academic performance of students in their pursuit of university education and in other higher institutions with the aim of producing competent manpower for the growth and development of the nation. Recent trends in this tier of education in Nigeria show poor academic results from our children. The preponderance of mass failure in the final examinations conducted by various examination bodies (WAEC‚ NECO NABTEB) has led to the hue and cry by all and sundry over students’ poor academic performance
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heroes are often people who take the law into their own hands‚ who see an injustice or evil and seek to rectify it personally‚ sometimes brutally‚ regardless of the consequences. Such portrayals signal to a child society’s approval of that behavior. Lacking the judgment that comes with age‚ a child who
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Child Labor Miners Children are meant to be free spirited and curious‚ but the madness in this world has taken that free spirit‚ curiosity‚ and sense of childhood away from millions children. Some of those children that fall into that description of child laborers‚ (child labor is where children are working in dangerous and inhumane conditions) from ages five through fifteen that work in mines mining valuable metals (like gold)‚ salt‚ and stone quarrying. Child miners have a difficult and devastating
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important for you to understand what your child is playing and when to get worried. Did You Know? In 2009‚ over 11 million people played World of Warcraft‚ an online‚ subscription fee-based multiplayer game. According to one study‚ nearly 1 in 10 young gamers displayed behavior patterns similar to addiction.1 The Kaiser Family Foundation found that 8- to 18-year-olds are exposed to an average of 10 hours and 45 minutes of media each day. Whether your child is an avid gamer or rarely picks up
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St. Mary’s Academy of Carmen Carmen‚ Cagayan de Oro City PAASCU Accredited “Computer Gaming Effects to the Academic Performance among High school students” A Research paper presented to Ms. Malou B. Cagalitan In partial fulfillment of the requirements in English 10 Valerie G. Maurin 10-Charity February 27‚ 2012 Outline I. Introduction A. Significance of the Study B. Objectives of the Study 1. Objective 1 2. Objective 2 3. Objective 3 C. Scope and
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* LOGIC Logic has two meanings: first‚ it describes the use of valid reasoning where it is used in most intellectual activities‚ including philosophy and science‚ or‚ second‚ it describes the study of modes of reasoning (those that are valid‚ and those that are fallacious). It is primarily studied in the disciplines of philosophy‚ mathematics‚ semantics‚ and computer science. It examines general forms that arguments may take. In mathematics‚ it is the study of valid inferences within some formal
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This study was conducted to discover whether or not there is an association between academic performance and involvement in a romantic relationship amongst high school students. The variables looked at were dating status (single or involved)‚ level of involvement in the relationship‚ and grade point average. Variables were calculated on a survey measuring relationship and school satisfaction. Seventy-five high school students studying in St. Joseph College were surveyed. Approximately fifty-one percent
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hit with a strap to make them work faster. In some factories children are dipped head first into a water cistern. Jonathan Downe quotes "When I was seven years old I went to work at Mr. Marshall’s factory at Shrewsbury. If a child was drowsy‚ the overlooker touches the child on the shoulder and says‚ "Come here". In a corner of the room there is an iron cistern filled with water. He takes the boy by the legs and dips him in the cistern‚ and sends him back to work." Children are punished for arriving
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data Discussion “Effects of computer usage to the academic performance of students” Chapter II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE The scope of Computer effects derives a wide scope of related literature that is worth mentioning. In this regard‚ this literature review concerning the effects of computer usage to the academic performance of students‚ will address the following areas relevant to this study: History of the Computer; Importance of Computers‚ Negative Effects of Gaming; Computer
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