Relationship Between Internet Use and Academic Performance
Experimental Design Used to test the Hypothesis
The experimental design that I will utilize is the observational study. This experimental design will give a genuine relationship between the student’s use of the internet during classroom learning and their performance. I will select the participants and observe their behavior after I subject them to in-class learning.
The Reason for the Use of the design and Threats to Validity
Descriptive design is used in the study to test the Hypothesis on whether factors such as motivation and interest promote students’ use of the internet and academic performance. The finding demonstrates that the relationship between the internet use and academic performance of students is a negligible positive correlation. As a result, there are weak links between the use of the internet and the academic performance of participants. I will avoid internal threats such as selection bias by picking the participants randomly among the first-year students are in the first semester of the academic year.
My independent variable is the use of the internet by the students for academic purposes. There is no difference in the level of internet use in students irrespective of their gender, courses, and level of their studies. I will experiment at our school, where I will choose about 50 students who are in the first semester of the year. The respondents will be asked to come with their laptops to class and connect to the internet to browse as they usually do during class time. The lecture lasted for 40 minutes, and credit was given to participants based on the duration they logged in during the lecture. Similarly, the participants will be asked about the number of times they use the internet for academic purposes, the duration of using the internet, and whether they use the internet for academic or non-academic purposes. Participants will be assured of privacy, and their consent to participate in the study will be considered. My independent variable, on the other hand, is the performance of students in the classroom. Lastly, my Hypothesis is whether interest and motivation are factors that promote students’ use of the internet and laptop in the classroom and academic performance.
Testing My Hypothesis Statistically
I will use formulae and Percentage to determine the frequency by which respondents logged into the proxy server within a given period during the session
P (%) = · 100
where:
F = frequencies
N = respondents
The mean of the respondents will also be computed
X =
where:
X = mean
Xi = sum of all the scores in the distribution
N = number of cases
the t-Test will be used to test the significance of the relationship of the variables used in the study
Chi-Square Method is Commonly used for testing hypothesis
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where:
o = frequency observed
∑ = sum of
References
Florica Tomos, Paul Jones, Christopher Miller, Ramdane Djerbani et al (2013), Impact of internet usage on students’ academic performance https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287733012_Impact_of_internet_usage_on_students’_academic_performance
Ravizza, S. M., Uitvlugt, M. G., & Fenn, K. M. (2017). Logged in and zoned out: How laptop internet use relates to classroom learning. Psychological science, 28(2), 171-180.