A Study of Use of Social Media in Relation to Academic Performance Anxiety Level and Social Intelligence of The Learners

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to examine use of social media in relation to newlineacademic performance, anxiety level and social intelligence of the learners. newlineThe aim of the study was also to developed curriculum framework for the effective use of social media as a innovative tool. A descriptive survey method was used for the study. In the present study random sampling technique method were used. At first, 1Central Universities were selected by random sampling technique from existing 5 Central Universities in Delhi region and after that selected state govt/ private Universities from NCR Region. Thus, 221 Pre Service Teacher were the sample of the present study. The data collected it was found that 76 respondents from Science stream, 81 respondents from arts stream and 64 respondents from commerce stream. WhatsApp. Nearly all the teachers trainees use for communicating with newlinegroups/ friends and family (97.7%). The fact that most of the pre service teacher newlinetrainees (78.2%) use social media for sharing video notes/ audio notes and questions newlineand for connecting with experts/ teachers (63.8%) is very encouraging for planning newlinethe use of social media for instructive purposes. Pre service teacher s browsing the different apps like whatsapp, facebook, You Tube etc.Pre Service teachers were feeling bored, lazy, fatigue, irritated and frustrated while non availability of social media. This shows that respondents were depending too much on social media and that lead become to frustration and aggression.Thus, this situation needs to be further studied by taking varied types of schools having different medium of instructions and category of different strata of society. Considering the fact that present study has been restricted to Delhi and NCR region colleges only. This study may be replicated in other colleges/ universities located in the different region uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh areas. newline newline