Effect of Social Media Usage on Academic Achievement of Electrical Installation and Maintenance Works Students in Technical Colleges in South Western, Nigeria

This study investigated the effects of Social Media Usage on Academic Achievement of Electrical Installation and Maintenance Works students in the technical colleges in south western, Nigeria. The research design for this study is quasi experimental design of the control group type. This was because there was no random assignment of the subjects to treatment conditions. The population of the study consisted of eight hundred and ten (810) technical colleges’ students (523 males and 287 females) in the technical colleges in southwestern, Nigeria. The sample consisted of 42 (25 males and 17 females) students who were purposively selected from the two technical colleges in Ondo State. Intact class was used in each of the colleges to select the student. The instrument used for data collection was EIAMW Achievement Test titled EIAMWAT which was developed by the researchers. The twenty item multiple choice objective test that made up the EIAMWAT were validated and its reliability determined using Pearson Product Moment Correlation coefficient was use and yielded 0.92 coefficient reliability. The research question was answered using mean and hypothesis was analyzed using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) at 0.05 level of significance. The findings showed that social media significantly affect the students’ academic achievement. In view of the finding, it was recommended among others that social media should be formally adopted in technical colleges for teaching in Electrical Installation and Maintenance Work to improve academic performance of Electrical Installation and Maintenance Works students.