The document summarizes a study on the role of YouTube in supporting academic achievement for Palestinian university students. The study found that (1) most respondents were female students from Al-Quds University studying health sciences, (2) videos with explanations and animations were the most helpful for learning, and (3) while YouTube can support learning, lectures cannot be fully replaced and internet access issues remain a challenge. In conclusion, YouTube is a valuable educational resource but still has room for improvement.

1. P r o f : Z i a d A b d e e n
YouTube'srole in s
upporting
academicachievementsfor
Pales
tinian univers
ity s
tudents
May, 2020

2. Introduction
• Our study is to see the role of youtube educational videos in our studies
these centuries.
• The study targeted Palestinian students in west bank universities from:
 17 and above
Scientific and literature studies
 Baccalaureate and Masters degree either.
• It aims to develop teaching methods whether to improve youtube
videos or teachers lectures
• We published this study in an online survey and share it on social media
among students of West Bank universities.

3. Research Objectives:
Primary Objective
To see if there is a relationship between academic rate and youtube videos
Second Objective
To specify the factors that affect the relationship and play a major role in increasing or
deacresing the relationship.

4. The Research Hypothesis
It consists of 3 main Hypothesis, which include:
• There is no real relationship or effect of using YouTube to study in raising the level of
academic achievement of university students.
• There is no widespread use of educational videos by students.
• University lectures cannot be replaced by YouTube videos.
The Variables in this Study are:
Dependent variable: Academic Achievement.
Independent variable: Watching YouTube.
Constant variable: University Students.
Intervening variable: Understanding.
Moderating variables: Lecturers, and the Source of Study.

5. METHOD OF
THE STUDY
Sample size of the study
o The process to determine the sample size was by
an online website with CI 95%
o The sample size we have reached was about 468
of people answered the questionnaire.
Study details
o The survey included 26 different questions,
devised into personal questions first and
questions that define the essence of YouTube
on them second, which the questions consist of:
 Dichotomous questions
 Ordinal questions
 Multiple choice questions
 Likert scale questions

6. METHOD OF THE
STUDY
• The study was particularly for West
Bank universities and broadly for
university scholars from all majors,
studies, and even from all countries.
• It targeted the Palestinian
population.
• It was made by an online survey.

7. TABLE DISCUSSION
Gender
Frequency Valid Percent
Female 305 65.2
Male 163 34.8
Total 468 100
 By gender: the number of female responses was far
higherthanthatofmales,asshownclearlyinTable1:
Table1:Distributionofresponsesbygender.
Region
Frequency Valid Percent
Territories
occupied in
1948
29 6.2
West Bank 261 55.8
Jerusalem and
its environs
175 37.4
Outside
Palestine
3 0.6
Total 468 100
 Byregion:thedistributionoftheresponseswasas
shownintable2:
Table2:distributionofresponsesbyregion.

8. University
Frequency
Valid
Percent
Al-Quds
University
351 75
Birzeit
University
80 17.1
Other 37 7.9
Total 468 100
 By university: Most of the responses came from
Al-Quds University. As seen in Table 3 for the
number of university responses:
Table 3: Responses distribution by university.
Valid
Frequency Valid Percent
Engineering 49 10.5
Medicine 82 17.5
Health Sciences 207 44.2
Social Science &
Economics
65 13.9
Other 65 13.9
Total 468 100
 By Faculty: The responses were split from the total
number of colleges into four major colleges. The
distribution was shown in Table 4:
Table 4: Response distribution by Faculty.

9. Valid
Frequency Valid Percent
1st year 287 61.3
2nd year 74 15.8
3rd year 37 7.9
4th year 49 10.5
5th year 11 2.4
6th year 1 0.2
M.A. 8 1.7
Ph.D. 1 0.2
Total 468 100
 By Academic level: most of the responses came from the
first year. Responses are distributed as shown in Table 5:
Table 5: Response distribution by academic level.

10. RESULTS
Statistical
Analysis
Pearson Chi-
Square
Value
Asymptotic
Significance(2-
sided)
40.281a .000
a. 0 cells (0.0%) have expected count less than 5.
The minimum expected count is 9.84.
Using YouTube for studying & College
relationship:
6
8
34
31
15
43
74
173
34
50
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Do you use
YouTube for
studying? Yes
Do you use
YouTube for
studying? No
 there is a significant difference between the college and the use of
YouTube to study because of the P-value was less than 0.000 which
means that the null hypothesis was rejected.
Chart1: College and use of YouTube
for studying distribution.
Table 6: Pearson chi-square test1.

11. Fisher's Exact Test
Exact Sig. (2-
sided)
.015
Using YouTube for
studying &
Gender
relationship:
The results show
that females use
YouTube to study
more than males.
51
43
254
120
Female
Male
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Do you use youtube for
studing? Yes
Do you use youtube for
studing? No
 There is a significant difference between the college and the use of
YouTube to study as the P-value was 0.015, which means that the
null hypothesis was rejected.
Chart2: Gender and use of YouTube for
studying distribution
Table6: Pearson chi-square test2.
the P-value was also less than 0.5

12. Value
95% Confidence Interval
Lower Upper
Odds Ratio for Gender .560 .354 .888
 We use the risk estimation test to check the relationship
strength and direction.
 We took the OR value after checking the lower and upper
bounds of the confidence interval, and its value was 0.56,
which means that males use YouTube 0.56 times less than
females.
Table 6: Risk estimate test.

13. The type
of video is
preferred
by
university
student:
In our questionnaire, we asked the student about what type of video they
prefer the most and the answer was:
58
158
199
52
Explanation with words
Explnation with writing
on a Blackboard
Explnation with
Animation or Pic
ALL
0
50
100
150
200
250
Frequency
 The chart clearly shows that the best video to study was the videos that
include explanation with figures or animation as 199 students out of 468
chose it as the best type.
Chart3: the most preferred type of videos to study by
university students

14. FACTORS
THAT
LIMIT
STUDENTS
' USE OF
YOUTUBE
AS A
SOURCE
OF STUDY:
1. The lack of videos in the native language While using YouTube
problem:
15
69
155
149
80
Always
Very often
Average
Rarely
Never
Chart4: The effect of the lack of materials in the native
language on universities students

15. 2. The discrepancies in the information while using
YouTube problem:
11
47
148
207
55
Always
Very often
Average
Rarely
Never
Chart5: Results of the question whether students suffer from
discrepancies in YouTube

16. 3. The slow internet problem:
165
97
206
Sometimes
No
Yes
Chart6: Results of the question whether slow internet
affect student's use of YouTube

17. 4. Other problems:
26
8
8
60
17
Ads
Distraction and lack of
attention
The absence of the
interactive element
I can't find exactly what
I want
Video length
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Chart7: other factors that affect student's use of YouTube

18. The home quarantine condition effect on
using YouTube:
110
107
251
maybe
No
Yes
Chart8: Results of the question whether the home quarantine
increase student's use of YouTube

19. Which is sufficient watching youtube videos
or having lectures or both?
74.1%
18.2%
7.7%
youtube or lectures
Valid 1 Both Valid 2 Lectures Valid 3 Youtube videos
Chart9: Results of the question Which of the following is
sufficient for you

20. Spearman's
rho
Academic level
Do videos
increase your
academic rate?
Academic
level
Correlation
Coefficient
Sig. (2-
tailed) N
1 0.029
. 0.538
468 468
Do videos
increase
your
academic
rate?
Correlation
Coefficient
Sig. (2-
tailed) N
0.029 1
0.538 .
468 468
Is the benefit of using YouTube by students decreases by increasing the
academic level?
we used the Spearman correlation test between the academic rate for those
who use YouTube and their academic level.
 the p-value was 0.538, which means that the null hypothesis was
accepted, so there is no significant relation, which means that the
benefit of using YouTube to increase the academic rate does not
decrease with an increase of the academic level.
Table9: Spearman's rho test1.

21. Spearman's
rho
Academic rate
Do you use
YouTube for
studying?
Academic
rate
Correlation
Coefficient
Sig. (2-
tailed) N
1 .211**
. 0
468 468
Do you use
YouTube for
for
studying?
Correlation
Coefficient
Sig. (2-
tailed) N
.211** 1
0 .
468 468
The relationship between using YouTube and academic rate:
we used the Spearman correlation and the result was as shown in the following table:
 The p-value was less than 0.001, which means there is a significant
difference. The p-value was only 21.1%.
 So, students with higher academic rates are using YouTube more;
However, the students how use YouTube more was students with GPA
between 80-89.
Table10: Spearman's rho test2.

22. LAST
THING
And the distribution for using Youtube and
academic rate is clear in the following graph:
6 34
40
11
3
37 218
100
19
0
ACADEMIC RATE
MORE THAN 90
ACADEMIC RATE
80-89
ACADEMIC RATE
70-79
ACADEMIC RATE
60-69
ACADEMIC RATE
UNDER 60
Using youtube & academic rate
No Yes
Chart10: Results of the question using YouTube and
academic rate

23. LIMITATIONS
From the problems we faced in our study:
 We could not collect data in a real paper questionnaire and give it to the people.
 There is a large difference between the number of males and females who filled our
data, in addition to that, the majority of them was from Al-Quds university, and
medical studnts, so we had to take care about these things.
 Among the reasons that were outside our ability, the Coronavirus, which prevented us
from doing research much better.

24. CONCLUSION
To conclude our study, YouTube has become a great asset in the field of education, and it has
made a great impression in this field.
In addition to that, YouTube has become a solution to many of the challenges that the
educational process can face, especially in emergency and disaster situations, as what is
happening now in 2020, how the Coronavirus invaded the world.
It promotes the concept of self-education and the ability of individuals to rely on themselves.
And as what the results show, it should be a developing in the world of Youtube and its
educational videos, to let students and other benefit from them.
Finally, it’s the first study in our Palestinian population, that research the relationship between
Youtube educational videos and the academic rate.

25. Done by the
students from Al-
Quds university
Abdallah Elayan
Dania Wari
Aya Wari
Mohamad Sarhan
Mohamad Sami