Alaslani Khadeejah, Alandejani Maha
University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Heliyon. 2020 Apr 6;6(4):e03686. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e03686. eCollection 2020 Apr.
Social network sites (SNSs) are the most essential communication tools among students, especially at higher levels of education. The purpose of this study is to identify and examine the factors that have an impact on the academic performance of students by using SNSs. The suggested factors that affect student performance are interactions with colleagues, interactions with instructors, engagement, and cooperative learning. The primary research objective of this case study is to determine which factors affect students' academic performance while using SNSs. In this study, i.e., quantitative research, a survey was conducted to analyze the factors associated with student's performance, among undergraduate and graduate students during the 2016/2017 academic session. The survey data were analyzed using descriptive statistical correlations and regression models. The findings indicate that SNSs have a significant positive effect on interactions with colleagues, interactions with instructors, engagement, cooperative learning, and student performance. In addition, interactions with colleagues and instructors while using SNSs simplify the communication between students and instructors, which leads to an enhancement of cooperation, knowledge sharing, and improvement and development of the learning process and also provides many learning chances.
社交网站（SNSs）是学生之间最重要的交流工具，尤其是在高等教育阶段。本研究的目的是通过使用社交网站来识别和检验对学生学业成绩有影响的因素。建议的影响学生成绩的因素包括与同学的互动、与教师的互动、参与度和合作学习。本案例研究的主要研究目标是确定在使用社交网站时哪些因素会影响学生的学业成绩。在本研究中，即定量研究，在2016/2017学年期间对本科生和研究生进行了一项调查，以分析与学生成绩相关的因素。使用描述性统计相关性和回归模型对调查数据进行了分析。研究结果表明，社交网站对与同学的互动、与教师的互动、参与度、合作学习和学生成绩有显著的积极影响。此外，在使用社交网站时与同学和教师的互动简化了学生与教师之间的交流，这导致合作、知识共享的增强，学习过程的改进和发展，并且还提供了许多学习机会。
