Finding a Correlation between Social Media Use and School Grades

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Introduction:

Technology, and “Social Networking” are a big thing in today‘s world, and also prevalent in the lives of college students. A good percentage of college students frequently browse sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and at this point, social media has an effect on both in school and out of school activities. Social Media can have a detrimental effect on grades, engagement and even on activities out of school, if used in a wrong way. At the same time, social media can be used to also enhance the learning and engagement experience, if used right.

Integrative Review: There is much relevant research regarding social media and its influence on academic achievement benchmarks and activities, such as grade point average, and time spent on studying for classes. Some studies show that student engagement can be impacted by social media, while other studies talk about the usage of Facebook and Twitter and its ability to raise engagement or lower it. The influence of devices and social media on the out of school curriculum was also a concern within one of the studies.

Within two of the research articles, there were similar sources and methods used in order to start the research. In the Junco articles on Facebook and Twitter, both used the NSSE as their measuring tool for engagement in their study and both Junco studies referenced each other in their work. The Junco Twitter article and Jacobson’s Wired Generation research both used similar methods of recruiting their population sample, by using some form of monetary incentive to gather their population and reaching out to students using e-mails and flyers. Junco used similar references in his Twitter and Facebook studies, such as Astin (1984) and Kuh (2009), which was used...

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...ess involved in the work given by the teachers. Also, the focus of the class being on social media as opposed to teachers would also take away from student-teacher engagement which could be detrimental to the process of learning.

Works Cited

1. Jacobson, W. C. (2011). The Wired Generation: Academic and Social Outcomes of Electronic Media Use Among University Students. CYBERPSYCHOLOGY, BEHAVIOR, AND SOCIAL NETWORKING, 14(5), 275-280. doi:10.1089/cyber.2010.0135

2. Junco, R. (2011, August 2). The relationship between frequency of Facebook use, participation in Facebook activities, and student engagement. Computers and Education, (58), 162-171.

3. Junco, R., Heiberger , G., & Loken, E. (2010, August 25). The effect of Twitter on college student engagement and grades. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 1-14. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00387.x

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