Relationship between Social Media Usage and Students Discipline in Private Day Secondary Schools in Rwanda
Abstract
ICT educational policy has made innovation in education in Rwanda and improved cost-effective of the world class by using technology tools in education. This improved the quality of education due to diversification of teaching methodology, where education in Rwanda has been changing systematically to the provision of various services. Through implementation of ICT educational policy, the student has been having an opportunity of using social media platforms while sending photos, sharing videos, watching music and communicating with their friends. Therefore, the study came up to establish the relationship between social media usage and students discipline. The study employed descriptive research design with the sample size of 240 people. Social media usages were independent variables while students discipline was the dependent variable. The data was collected and analyzed by using correlation design in order to establish the relationship between social media usages and students discipline. The results given by respondents of the study were confirmed at the average rate of 82.3%, saying that the use of social media platforms to students affect their behavior in terms of dressing styles, attention span, truancy and classroom attendance and also they presented that there is a significance high degree of negative correlation between social media usage and students discipline as it was also proved by Karl Pearson coefficient of correlation (r) of -0.663 from respondents’ perceptions.
Keywords: Social media, student discipline, disruptive behavior
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