Impact Of Social Media Use And Time Management On Secondary School Student’s Academic Performance

This study was carried out to examine the impact of social media use and time management on secondary school student’s academic performance using some selected secondary schools in Owerri Municipal Local Government Area, Imo State as a case study. The study was specifically set to ascertain the extent  of social media utilization among secondary school students, ascertain whether social media usage affects students time management skill, ascertain whether there is a significant relationship between time management and students academic achievement, and ascertain whether social media engagement affect the academic performance of secondary school students. The survey design was adopted and the simple random sampling techniques were employed in this study. The population size comprise of students of some selected secondary schools in Owerri Municipal Local Government Area, Imo State. In determining the sample size, the researcher conveniently selected 229 respondents and 210 were validated. Self-constructed and validated questionnaire was used for data collection. The collected and validated questionnaires were analyzed using frequency tables and mean scores. While the hypotheses were tested using Chi-square statistical tool. The result of the findings reveals that the extent  of social media utilization among secondary school students is high. Furthermore the result of the findings reveals that there is a significant relationship between time management and students academic achievement. Therefore, it is recommended that students should be monitored by teachers and parents on how they use these networking sites and students should better manage their study time in and prevent distractions that can be provided by the social media. There should be a decrease in the number of time spent by students when surfing the net. To mention but a few.