Facebook and Academic Performance: A Positive Outcome

Gonzalez, Maria; Gascó, José L.; Llopis, Juan

doi:10.1080/09720073.2016.11891924

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“…Previous researchers had assessed hours of social media use as a dependent variable to assess academic performance (González et al, 2016;Yoo and Kim, 2013). This study examined the factors to categorise the academic usage of social media which explains that, when the students use social media as an online sharing platform and for comprehending any academic topic, accounting undergraduate students can have positive academic performance.…”

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“…The social media use and the academic outcome was assessed through a frequency table where percentage results were prevalent. Most of the studies focused on the relationship of social media use and educational outcome in general and did not concentrate on a particular subject (Piotrowski, 2015;González, Gasco, & Llopis, 2016;Yu, Shi, & Cao, 2019;Mingle & Adams, 2015).…”

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Social Media Use and Academic Performance: A Study on Undergraduate Accounting Students of Bangladesh

Khanam

2020

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The paper aims to ascertain the relationship between social media uses and academic performance of undergraduate accounting students in Bangladesh. Design/Methodology/Approach: This study is based on empirical data gathered from a survey of 154 undergraduate accounting students in Bangladesh. Structural equation modelling (SEM) analysis is applied to make sense of the results of the research questions. Research findings: The analysis disclosed that five factors are categorised as the reasons for using social media for academic purposes of which online sharing and academic comprehension have a significant positive impact on academic performance (CGPA), whereas the completion of course tasks have a significant negative impact on CGPA or the academic performance. Academic involvement and personal tutorial support do not associate significantly with academic performance (CGPA). Theoretical contribution/ Originality: Most of the studies on social media focus on the relationship between social media use and educational outcome in general, not concentrating on a particular subject. As regards the subject specificity, the interest and satisfaction of learning accounting course was measured through the use of social media. In Bangladesh, the study of social media use is limited. This analysis concentrates particularly on accounting discipline learning perspective. Practitioner/ Policy implication: This study identifies different academic uses of social media and defines policies and procedures that will modify the use of social media as learning tools of undergraduate students.Research limitation: This study considered only 154 undergraduate students in Bangladesh, mainly from the capital city Dhaka. The investigation is limited to the data collected from the survey questionnaire administered to the sampled students.

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Social Media Use and Academic Performance: A Study on Undergraduate Accounting Students of Bangladesh

Khanam

2020

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“…The students who show a more negative attitude toward Facebook are the ones who have never used this social network. Gonzalez, Gasco & Llopis (2016) Analyzing the literature on Facebook and its impact on academic performance leads to conclude that Facebook's positive influence on academic results overshadows its negative influence. Goodband et al (2012) Facebook helps students not only to communicate with one another but also to reinforce their pre-existing friendship ties.…”

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University students and online social networks: Effects and typology

González

Gascó

Llopis

2019

Journal of Business Research

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Immersed, educated, and raised amid technology, the new student generation is formed by digital natives. The use of online social networks (OSNs) has soared in recent years, and students are among those who have adopted them more enthusiastically. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze how students' academic life is shaped by the use of such networks. After providing a review of the literature on OSNs and their influence on students, this study presents the results of a survey that proved helpful to assess students' opinions in this regard. A typology of students based on their perceptions of OSNs is provided. The findings suggest that students value the positive aspects of OSNs to a much greater extent than they value the negative aspects of OSNs.

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“…Students who use OSN much are likely to engage in multitasking (doing several academic or other activities concurrently) which diminishes focus and often leads to poor academic performance [48]Moreover, social networking can become addictive, distractive and have negative impact on social interactions, emotional health or cause burnout [2]It has also been noted that OSN leads to reduction in face-to-face interaction among people, sleep problems, anxiety, depression, lack of privacy, fake identity, time consumption and, not infrequently, addiction to social media usage that interferes with performing daily tasks [49,50]Indeed, on an OSN site, there may be so much information overload that it becomes difficult to distinguish the useful from the useless [31]. Students who spend much time on OSN tend to procrastinate and postpone academic work more often [51][52][53] It has been shown that students who use OSN sites everyday have significantly lower grades than those who do not [54].…”

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“…Regarding academics, students use OSNS to access and share learning resources [3,6,18,28], collaborate and post content online [29], manage and coordinate schedules [5,8,30,31], gain motivation towards serious academic studies [5,32]; participate in peer education through interaction with each other [1, 2, 33]; socialize and enjoy a sense of community belonging [34][35][36], communicate with their instructors [37,38], gratify themselves [39]and get entertainment [7].…”

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Effect of Online Social Networking Sites Usage on Academic Performance of University Students in Uganda

Jehopio¹,

Wesonga²,

Candia³

2017

IJCA

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Online social networking site (OSNS) like any technological innovation provides an opportunity for quick and easy access to information. As to whether the information obtained provides additional academic knowledge to students is hypothesized and measured by their academic performance in school. This study provides evidence to the ongoingdebate of whether the use of OSNS among students improves academic performance of students.Findings from the study show that the effect of OSNS usage on academic performance was significant (p<0.05). Farther, the study demonstrated that for better academic performance, the optimum proportion of study time that a student may spend on OSNS usage was 25 percent. Students who manage their time well were morelikely to perform better than those who did not, by up to 48 percent. Furthermore, students who used OSNS more for academic than for non-academic purposes were more likely to perform better academically, by up to 11 percent. Regarding student majors: science-based majors tend to benefit more from OSNS usage compared to arts-based majors, by up to 50 percent. Student general characteristics (being male or female, married or single) and student-preferred mode of learning (using traditional, hybrid or online approach) were not significant in this study. In conclusion, use of OSNS by students at universities, when properly regulated results in better academic performance.

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Facebook and Academic Performance: A Positive Outcome

Cited by 20 publications

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Social Media Use and Academic Performance: A Study on Undergraduate Accounting Students of Bangladesh

Social Media Use and Academic Performance: A Study on Undergraduate Accounting Students of Bangladesh

University students and online social networks: Effects and typology

Effect of Online Social Networking Sites Usage on Academic Performance of University Students in Uganda

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