Effects of social media use on learning|Legit essays

Posted: February 18th, 2023

Instructions

Please write an APA style Results section for your Survey Study. Make sure to read the information on the ‘How to Analyze your Data’ page and ‘How to Write an APA Style Results Section’ page before you begin.

1. State your hypothesis and briefly describe how the data was analyzed (see example).
2. Present the descriptive statistics from your categorical and quantitative data in APA style tables.
   • Quantitative Data: Report the range, mean, SD, median, mode.
   • Categorical Data: Create a frequency table. This should include the number of participants that selected each response option.
3. Describe the descriptive statistics in writing and interpret the pattern of results.
4. Describe and interpret the pattern of results from your open-ended questions.
5. Summarize the results.
   • Taken together, what do the results show?
   • Do they appear to support or contradict your hypothesis?
     • Please note: in order to actually determine whether your results support your hypothesis, you would need to use inferential statistics.

Additional Notes

• Include an APA Style Student Title Page.
• Please note: points will be deducted for incorrect use of APA Style!
• Your assignment will pass through Turn It In, so be sure your work is your own.

A sample Method and Results section is provided on the next page.

APA Style Resources

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• Heading Levels Template: Student Pap.er.Links to an external site.
  • This sample shows you how to format level 1 and level 2 headings in an APA Style student pap.er.
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• Topic:

  Effects of social media use on learning

  Population:

  The research population will be students of age 18-30 from different disciplines. Age is an inclusion criterion because students of this age group are more likely to use social media. Students of the age group between 18-30 would be selected from different facilities, and the purpose of the research would be explained to them.

  Conceptual Definitions:

  Social media: social media is the use of electronic devices for entertainment purposes. Social media is in the form of multiple applications such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, etc.

  Learning: learning is a process that leads to change, occurs as a result of experience, and improves performance and future learning.

  Questions:

  a. How many hours do you spend on social media every day?

  b. What is the favorite social media platform you use using every day?

  c. How often do you post on social media?

  d. How many hours do you spend learning every day?

  e. What type of pages have you liked on social media platforms?

  f. Does social media contribute to learning? What kind of learning?

  Variables:

  a. Using social media or not

  b. For what purpose is social media being used, either for learning or for entertainment?

  c. Number of hours spent on learning and social media

  Operational Definitions:

  Variable 1: using social media or not

  Using social media ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’

  Variable 2: the purpose of use of social media

  Five-point scale from very good to poor.

  Variable 3: number of hours spent on learning and social media

  Hours per night

  Hypothesis:

  H1: Excessive use of social media negatively impacts learning.

  H2: A balance between learning hours and social media use can improve learning.

  H3: People who are using social media for learning purposes are more likely to be successful compared to those who use it for entertainment.

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