Modelling of Time Spent on social media and Time Spent to Study on the Academic Performance of Students in Selected Nigerian Tertiary Institutions

This chapter determines the mathematical model of the time spent on social media to study and the time spent to study outside of class on the academic performance of students in the selected tertiary institutions in Nigeria. To achieve this purpose, two research questions and two research hypotheses were formulated to guide this study. The researchers adopted descriptive survey research design and a sample size of 300 were selected from the total population of the students considered using stratified random sampling technique. The regression analysis statistical method was employed to determine the mathematical model that connects the dependence variable (academic performance) and the independent variables (time spent on social media to study and time spent to study outside of class). The study reveals that, there is a positive relationship between time spent studying outside of class and academic performance of students and there is also a strong positive relationship between time spent on social media to study and academic performance of students. In addition, the mathematical model that connects all the variables were determined and formulated based on the data collected from the research findings. The study was concluded with some recommendations that, awareness programmes should be put in place to sensitize students of the advantages derived from the use of the social media to study effectively.