THE EFFECT OF MOBILE PHONES ON STUDENTS' ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE (original) (raw)

This study was carried out to find out the impact of mobile phones on academic performance of secondary school students of both public and private schools in Ife East Local Government Area, state of Osun. The objectives are to find out the extent to which the use of mobile phones will affect students’ performance in secondary Schools and to compare performance of students using mobile phones in Public and Private Schools. The population consisted of two Schools in the Ife-East Area. Two Hundred students were selected from the two schools as respondents for this study. The instrument used for data collection was a validated structured questionnaire. Data collected were analysed using frequency counts, correlation, cross tabs, descriptive and ANOVA (Analysis of Variance). Major findings showed that Ninety Seven 97% of the secondary school students have access to mobile phones either through their parents, friends or personal. Meanwhile, some supported the fact that, they get their assignment done with the help of their mobile phones. Therefore, their performance is not significantly affected by their access to mobile phones. However, it was revealed that, the performance of the secondary schools students of both private and public has no significant difference (P>0.05). It was then recommended that, students needs to be re -orientated on the need to set their priorities right and be continuously informed on the positive and negative effects of their usage and of the problems deriving from the over-dependency and unregulated use of their mobile phones.