INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN ENUGU STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (ESUT).

The study examined perception of student on influence of use of social media on academic performance of students in Enugu State University of Science and Technology. One research question and one hypothesis guided the study. A survey research design was adopted for the study. Purposeful sampling technique was used to sample 160 students, 80 females and 80 males third year students of Faculty of Education. The instrument for data collection was a 10-iteme questionnaire developed by the researcher. The questionnaire was validated by three experts in the fields of education and a reliability of 0.79 was obtained using Cronbach alpha method of determining internal consistency of instrument. The research question was answered using mean and the hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance using t-test statistic. The result indicated that students agreed that use of social media influence students academic performance and there is no significant difference in the mean response of female and male students on the influence of social media on academic performance. Encouraging students to spend more time on academic activities, provision of entertaining and amusement centres in the universities among others were some of the recommendation made.