Influence of smartphone usage on academic performance of students in the Faculty of Communication and Information Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
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2019
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Journal of Library Services and Technologies
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The study investigated the influence of smartphone usage on academic performance students in the five departments
of the Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. The study was guided by
five research objectives and descriptive survey design using questionnaire for data collection. Through convenient
sampling techniqes to select 315 respondents for inclusion in the study. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences
(SPSS) version 22 was used to analysed the data collected with descriptive statistics. Results from the data collected
revealed that a majority the respondents were femaless while 60.1% were in the age range of 20-24; that 68.4%of
the respondents used Techno smartphone, 88.4% of the respondents agreed that the use of smartphone enhanced
academic performance, 76.4% of the respondents indicated that smartphone usage lead to fatigue and sleeplessness,
though 80.1% of the respondents agreed that change in the attitudinal behaviour is the solution to the problem of
use of smartphone among students. Finally the study recommended among others that the university authority
should address the issue of inadequate power supply on campus and monitor the use of smartphones for enhanced
academic performance among students in the Faculty of Communication and Information Sciences, University of
Ilorin.
.Keywords: Academic performance, Communication and information science, Library and
information science, Perceived influence of smartphone, Smartphones and academic
performance, Students, University of Ilorin, Nigeria
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Academic performance, Communication and information science, Library and information science, Perceived influence of smartphone, Smartphones and academic performance, Students, University of Ilorin, Nigeria