LBEF RESEARCH JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Author(s):Mohan Sigh Ayer, R. N. Thakur

Abstract:The main purpose of the work was to find out the positive negative effects of mobile phone uses on academic performance of the undergraduate students with reference to Kathmandu valley Nepal. Mobile phone technology would enhance the students’ status if they use it appropriately in academic activities in the school, college. Students who use mobile phones excessively, their grade point average (GPA) can be low. The study was carried out to find the effects of mobile phone uses on academic performance of undergraduate students. Quantitative comparative study was carried out from January to August 2019 to analyze the effect of mobile phone uses on the academic performance of 281 mobile phone user undergraduate students, studying at four different colleges at Kathmandu valley. Their academic performance based on GPA before and after using mobile phone was analyzed. Simple random sampling technique was used to measure the academic performance of the undergraduate students. Researcher-administered semi-structured questionnaire was formulated and was distributed to the respondents for data collection. The raw data were processed and analyzed by SPSS version 20. Correlation and paired t-test were applied to show the relationship between mobile phone use and academic performance. There were 95 students (33.8%) aged 20 years and 176 respondents (62.6%) were female. GPAs in first and current semester were non-significantly related with gender of the students (p values 0.380 and 0.823 respectively). Age of students was mild positively correlated with the mean GPA in first and current semester (r= 0.146 and 0.375 respectively) and were statistically significant (p values 0.014 and 0.000 respectively).

Keywords:Academic performance; grade point average (GPA); mobile phone; undergraduate students; Kathmandu Valley.