The impact of student’s motives for social media use and educational-information sharing on their academic performance: A pilot study among students in International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
The focus of this study is to investigate the impact of students’ motives for using the social media and their academic related information sharing activities on their academic performance. Guided by the theory of Social Information Processing (SIP), a pilot study using a self-administered survey...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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UKM Press
2017
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/59913/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/59913/13/59913-The%20Impact%20of%20Student%E2%80%99s%20Motives%20for%20Social%20Media%20Use%20and%20Educational-Information.pdf |
| Summary: | The focus of this study is to investigate the impact of students’ motives for using the
social media and their academic related information sharing activities on their academic
performance. Guided by the theory of Social Information Processing (SIP), a pilot study
using a self-administered survey questionnaire was conducted among 60 students at the
International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) Gombak Campus. With the assumption
that online relationship able to pose the same influence as face-to-face relationship; once
it is fully established, SIP helps to explain the impact of online relationship among the
users. The objectives of the study are (1) to identify the status of the students’ motives for
social media use, educational-information sharing and their academic performance
among IIUM students; (2) to analyze the relationships between motives for social media
use, educational-information sharing and students’ academic performance; (3) to test the
mediating effect of educational-information sharing on the relationship between motives
for social media use and students’ academic performance. The study finds that students’
academic performance is significantly correlated with their motives for using the social
media and their educational-information sharing activities. Also, educational-information
sharing fully mediates the relationship between the students’ motives for social media use
and their academic performance. Thus, this study contributes to the understanding of
social media use for academic related-tasks upon improving the students’ academic
performance. |
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