Volume : 6, Issue : 6, June - 2017

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH REFERENCE TO THEIR SNS USAGE

Jijish Elias, Dr. M. Mirunalini

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">Usage of Social Networking Sites (SNS) are very common among the adolescent students as the usage of smart phones increased and thus the access of internet become cheaper and easy. In the Indian context, academic achievement is very much important while talking about students and education system. In this study, the investigator tried to correlate the SNS usage with academic achievement among higher secondary school students using an SNS usage inventory among 360 Higher Secondary school students in Palakkad district. The results shows that there is no relation among SNS usage and their academic achievement.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in;line-height:200%"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;&#10;mso-ansi-language:EN"><o:p></o:p></span></p>