The Effect Of Time Pupils Spend In Watching Television On Their Academic Performance: A Case Study In Karen 'C' Primary School.
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Date
2003
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Tangaza University College
Abstract
The project was carried out in Karen 'C' Primary School and specifically with
the two upper classes of forms seven and eight. It aimed at investigating on the time
pupils spend in watching television and its effect on their academic performance. It
gives a brief background on the alarming concern of parents and teachers about the
television watching habit of pupils. It exposed other studies done related to the topic and
the knowledge of gap was vividly established. Its objectives were to find out if hours
spent on watching television by pupils have a positive or negative influence on their
academic performance. Three categories of questionnaire were designed and sent out to
pupils, parents and teachers at random in Karen 'c' Primary School. These
questionnaires contain deferent items derived from the objectives. The Pearson Product
Moment Correlation (r) was used among other methods to correlate the time pupils
spend in watching television and their academic performance. After the analysis, the
study reveals that all pupils watch television in Karen 'c'. However, It observed that
there is insignificant positive relationship between the time pupils spent in watching
television and their academic performance. This was contrary to the expectations that
time spent in watching television by pupils will have a strong positive or negative
relationship with their academic performance. The result was due to factors such as
poor estimation of time by pupils, misinformation, and other factors that have direct
influence on pupils' academic performance. Parents and teachers control of the pupils'
television watching habits attributed to the weak positive relationship. The study also
reveals isolated cases of negative relationship, which had no concrete prove.
The researcher recommends that it is necessary for parents and teachers to
continue to control the time pupils spent in watching television to increase it positive
influence. It will also be of great help to incorporate television programmes in academic
work since it proved an effective tool for academic performance.
The researcher suggests that this same research could be repeated in different
environment in a larger scale to cover many pupils. It will also be a curious thing to find
out the factors that have direct influence on pupils' academic performance.
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Watching Television, Academic Performance