Exploring the Students’ Attitudes toward Internet Usage for Academic Excellence

DOI

10.2991/itmr.k.200810.001How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Internet usage; students; academic performance; Dhaka University

Abstract

The Internet is being widely used as an educational tool with numerous potentials. The students who use the Internet for academic purposes especially they can gain more knowledge and enhance cumulative grade point average. The aim of the study is to explore the students’ attitudes toward Internet usage for academic excellence. A cross-sectional survey questionnaire was used to collect data from 150 students at Dhaka University, Bangladesh. The study used descriptive statistics to analyze the collected data through the Statistical Package for Social Sciences. The results of the study identified that 94% of the students use the Internet and only 6% of the students do not use the Internet currently. The study also determines that the majority (59.33%) of the students use the Internet for both academic and non-academic purposes. In addition, a vast majority of the students agree that Internet usage increases their academic performances greatly. The findings suggest that policymakers should invest more in information technology to ensure Internet facilities for 24 h a day so that students can easily access the Internet anytime for completing their academic and research work. Moreover, the study identifies future research areas that provide scholars opportunities to push theoretical and empirical boundaries and offer further insights into the study of students’ attitudes toward Internet usage.

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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Habibur Rahman
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/17
TI  - Exploring the Students’ Attitudes toward Internet Usage for Academic Excellence
JO  - The International Technology Management Review
SP  - 58
EP  - 63
VL  - 9
IS  - 1
SN  - 1835-5269
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/itmr.k.200810.001
DO  - 10.2991/itmr.k.200810.001
ID  - Rahman2020
ER  -