Running head: IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON STUDENT’S PERFORMANCE 1 IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON STUDENT’S PERFORMANCE 8 Impact of social media on student’s performance Rodriquez Mitchell Northcentral University Introduction In my selection of an article which fits the assignment criteria I zeroed down to a peer-reviewed article entitled “Impact of social media on student’s performance”. The article was authored in 2013 by Sara Selvaraj of Vels University. This work posits to explain the issue being addressed in the research article, the purpose of the work, provide a summary of the research questions therein, describe both the null and alternative hypothesis used by the author, show application of the conceptual framework, and discuss the methodology used and the limitation of the article. Describe the problem or issue addressed. The main issue addressed in the article is the consequences of students using social networking platforms. This means the impact that social networking has on the education system. As evident from the literature part of the work social networking sites are not meant to have a negative effect on the education system. However, it has turned out that there is an array of negative effects of using social networking sites by students. One of these problems is prompted by social networking site addiction. Students with access to the internet and have social media networking sites accounts spend a significant time of their day on these sites. The impact of that is the students are left with little or no time for their personal studies hence cannot submit things like assignments in a timely fashion (Selvaraj, 2013). Secondly, the students are poised to fail their examinations or experience a decline in their academic scores. The article attempts to show the severity of this problem and provide proof that indeed the problems exist. Describe the purpose or intent of the study. The article has 3 main objectives or intents. The first objective is to determine the influence of various social networking sites on student’s academic performance. Young children or generation is one of the most affected by social networking sites. The study tries to investigate the difference between the performance of the students before starting to use the sites and the performance after starting to use the sites. The second objective of the study is to investigate how the education system in totality has been impacted by social networking sites. This objective arises from the knowledge that not only student use the sites. The websites are used nearly by everyone in the sector irrespective of age, position and professional. This use must have an effect and it’s this impact that the work tries to unravel. The third objective of the study is to determine the motivation behind the use of social networking sites. These are the uses which are prompting individuals to sign up of social media accounts. The work also tries to discover the uses of the si.

1. Running head: IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON STUDENT’S
PERFORMANCE
1
IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON STUDENT’S
PERFORMANCE
8
Impact of social media on student’s performance
Rodriquez Mitchell
Northcentral University
Introduction
In my selection of an article which fits the assignment criteria I
zeroed down to a peer-reviewed article entitled “Impact of
social media on student’s performance”. The article was
authored in 2013 by Sara Selvaraj of Vels University. This work
posits to explain the issue being addressed in the research
article, the purpose of the work, provide a summary of the
research questions therein, describe both the null and alternative
hypothesis used by the author, show application of the
conceptual framework, and discuss the methodology used and
the limitation of the article.
Describe the problem or issue addressed.
The main issue addressed in the article is the consequences of
students using social networking platforms. This means the
impact that social networking has on the education system. As
evident from the literature part of the work social networking
sites are not meant to have a negative effect on the education
system. However, it has turned out that there is an array of
negative effects of using social networking sites by students.
One of these problems is prompted by social networking site

2. addiction. Students with access to the internet and have social
media networking sites accounts spend a significant time of
their day on these sites. The impact of that is the students are
left with little or no time for their personal studies hence cannot
submit things like assignments in a timely fashion (Selvaraj,
2013). Secondly, the students are poised to fail their
examinations or experience a decline in their academic scores.
The article attempts to show the severity of this problem and
provide proof that indeed the problems exist.
Describe the purpose or intent of the study.
The article has 3 main objectives or intents. The first objective
is to determine the influence of various social networking sites
on student’s academic performance. Young children or
generation is one of the most affected by social networking
sites. The study tries to investigate the difference between the
performance of the students before starting to use the sites and
the performance after starting to use the sites. The second
objective of the study is to investigate how the education
system in totality has been impacted by social networking sites.
This objective arises from the knowledge that not only student
use the sites. The websites are used nearly by everyone in the
sector irrespective of age, position and professional. This use
must have an effect and it’s this impact that the work tries to
unravel. The third objective of the study is to determine the
motivation behind the use of social networking sites. These are
the uses which are prompting individuals to sign up of social
media accounts. The work also tries to discover the uses of the
sites which leads to addiction. It’s also through this objective
that it becomes easy to tell how social media networking sites
have impacted the education system.
Summarize the research question(s).
The work has three research questions from which both the null

3. and alternative hypothesis are drawn from.
1. How do social networking sites impact student’s academic
performance?
2. What is the impact of social networking sites on the
education system?
3. What are the purposes behind or the uses of social
networking sites?
For a quantitative study, describe both the null and alternative
hypotheses.
Addressing the first question about academic performance the
author sort to investigate the issue using social media
frequency. This entails how regular students use social
networking sites. The frequency was then attached to the
performance to see whether there is any correlation between the
two.
On that note the null hypothesis of the research was (HO) there
is no significant influence of social networking sites usage
frequency on the academic performance of students.
To allow for investigation and show whether the null hypothesis
should be rejected or accepted the Alternative hypothesis was:
(HA) There is a significant influence of social networking sites
usage on the academic performance of students.
The data collected was tabulated at a 5% significance level to
uphold or reject the null hypothesis. The Pearson value was
0.00 which is a value less than 0.05.
This results clearly show that the null hypothesis should be

4. rejected. The rejection indicates that the alternative hypothesis
hold and hence it right to conclude on this hypothesis that
indeed there is a significant influence of social networking sites
usage on the academic performance of students.
In addressing the second main question about the impact of
social networking sites on the education system the researcher
sought to investigate the relationship between student learning
from social networking and the student’s studies as well as their
performance.
The null hypothesis was (HO) there is no significant
relationship between student learning from social networking
and the student’s studies as well as their performance.
The alternative hypothesis was (HA) there is a significant
relationship between student learning from social networking
and the student’s studies as well as their performance.
Using 5% as the significance level the researcher obtained the
Pearson value (P) =0.0562.
These results indicate that the null hypothesis holds and should
be accepted.
On that note, it's sound to conclude that there is no significant
relationship between student learning from social networking
and the student’s studies as well as their performance
The third hypothesis dealt with the third question.
(HO) There is no significant influence on viewing social
networking websites on mobile phones as well as lifestyle
impacts.
(HA) there is a significant influence on viewing social

5. networking websites on mobile phones as well as lifestyle
impacts
The Pearson value (P) for this hypothesis at a 5% confidence
level was 0.001. This indicates the null hypothesis (HO) should
be rejected and the alternative hypothesis should be accepted.
Discuss the theoretical/conceptual framework and how it was
used, as well as how well it was used, to formulate and guide
the study.
The dependent variable on the conceptual framework is the use
of social networking sites. The dependent variables are the
social lifestyle, marks, social influence and time spending on
academic activities. The intervening variable is academic
performance.
The framework was used to formulate and guide the study in the
sense that it’s from the framework that the objectives of the
paper are drawn from. Looking at the framework it’s easy to
know what will be the research questions as well as both null
and alternative hypothesis.
Determine if (and how well) the study was justified with the use
of analysis and synthesis of the previous research literature.
The study is justified to use the literature therein. This is
because one of the aspects of the literature used were works
recently authored or in other words, they are not old references.
With such references, it indicates they are authentic on the basis
that they have captured the trends in social networking sites use
and the impacts. Secondly, the sources used are peer-reviewed
articles and books. This sources can be trusted to provide
credible information hence the justification that the study was
right to use the sources.
Discuss the selected methodology and corresponding design as

6. well as the appropriateness of this choice to accurately address
the study’s research question(s).
The study mainly used primary data. The data was collected
using questionnaires. Respondents were issued with questions to
answer. The study used a sample size of 100 respondents. The
sampling technique employed was judgement sampling. After
the collection of the data, the SPSS software was used to
analyze it.
The use of primary data to address the questions at hand is
appropriate. This stems from the fact that using primary data the
researcher is able to collect true information or one which has
not been manipulated (Glass, 2015). Secondly, social
networking is a new issue which has not been given attention by
many authors and researchers hence making it difficult to find
secondary data.
Identify and summarize the potential flaws and/or limitations in
the study as well as ways to eliminate or reduce them.
One of the main limitations of the study is the sample size. The
sample size of 100 is too small to make possible to generalize
the result. The researcher carried out the study in India. This is
one of the most populated countries in the world with over 1
billion people indicating that the education sector is big with a
big number of students. Using a sample size of 100 fails to
reflect the true picture. To address this flaw it important to
consider the population size before coming up with the sample
size (Naing, Winn & Rusli, 2016). There are also various
formulas used to calculate the sample size. A researcher can
make good use of such formulas to prevent the flaw.
References
Glass, G. V. (2015). Primary, secondary, and meta-analysis of
research. Educational Researcher, 5(10), 3-8.

7. Naing, L., Winn, T., & Rusli, B. N. (2016). Practical issues in
calculating the sample size for prevalence studies. Archives of
Orofacial Sciences, 1, 9-14.
Sara Selvaraj (2013) IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON
STUDENT'S ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE. Retrieved from:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288516435_IMPACT_
OF_SOCIAL_MEDIA_ON_STUDENT'S_ACADEMIC_PERFOR
MANCE
Cardiopulmonary Conditions Project
TOPIC: Sarcoidosis
Content: The paper must at minimum address all of the
topics/questions on the next page. Any information that is
specific to your condition should also be included.
Sources: The paper should be based on the Essentials of
Cardiopulmonary Physical therapy textbook and any other
textbooks utilized or accessible in the program or library. The
paper MUST contain a MINIMUM of 4 research articles from a
scholarly journal no older than 2014.
Format/Style: The paper and references (both books and
journals) must be in APA style (See Writing Lab for assistance)
Intellectual property: All content in the paper must be your own
thoughts. All information taken from textbooks, scholarly
journals or other sources must be cited within the paper and
cited in the references. Any plagiarism will result in an
automatic “0” on the project. The similarity index for
submission on Turnitin.com must be 25% or less.
Cardiopulmonary Conditions Instructions
1. What population is this condition typically found in?
2. How does the condition typically occur? What is the
etiology?
3. What anatomical structures are involved?
4. What medical interventions are required?

8. 5. What precautions or contraindications must the PTA be aware
of during the patient’s medical treatment and/or during
recovery?
6. What is the typical time frame for patient full recovery OR
how long following medical intervention until the patient is
considered able to return to full functional abilities (or return to
PLOF).
7. What types of PT interventions are typically used to treat the
condition during the:
a. acute phase
b. functional phase
8. Are there any recommended interventions that do not fall
under the PTA’s scope of work?
9. Create an example daily treatment plan for the patient 3
weeks following injury/medical intervention based on
information found during your research.
Research Report : Cardiac Conditions Project
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Sources
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internet sources.
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References
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page.
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references page.
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references page.
49% or less of the references are documented in APA style in
the references page.
Paragraph Construction
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details, and concluding sentence.
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details, and concluding sentence.
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