INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF B. AGRICULTURE STUDENTS OF ABDULLAHI FODIO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ALEIRO

The study assessed influence of social media on academic achievement of B. Agriculture
students at Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero, Kebbi State, Nigeria. A
multistage sampling was used to select 101 respondents for the study. In the first stage, all the
four departments (Agriculture economic and extension, Animal Science, Crop Science and
Soil Science) were purposely selected. In the second stage, UG 5 B. Agriculture students were
purposely selected and in the third stage, proportionate random sampling was employed to
select 101 respondents to serve as sample size for the study. Descriptive statistics and Chi
Square were used to analyse the data collected. The findings revealed that (50.5 %) of the
respondents were male and (49.5%) were females with the majority of them falling within age
ranges of 26 and 30 years old. The most commonly used social media platforms were
WhatsApp and Facebook with a mean of 4.00 and 3.70 respectively. The result of chi-square
showed that at P≤0.01 there was a significant association between respondent’s academic
achievement and punctuality in school, ownership of laptop as well as early resumption which
showed that these variable are important in influencing student academic achieve. The Study
recommend that there is the need to educate students on the influence of social media to ensure
they use the social media as a tool for academic achievement. Also, students should be
monitored by teachers and parents on how they use the social media sites.