scholarly journals An examination of secondary school students' habits of using internet

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-452
Author(s):  
Birgül Ogur ◽  
Rabia Meryem Yılmaz ◽  
Yüksel Göktaş
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
School Students ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Virus Attack ◽  
Common Problems ◽  
Privacy Setting

The purpose of this study is to reveal secondary students' habits of using Internet. For this aim, the sample consisted of 442 secondary school students. Descriptive and comparative research methods were used. According to the results of the study, children mostly used Internet for their course and fun while their level of conscious usage skill was low. The most common problems while using Internet were virus attack and stolen passwords. The precautions taken for these problems were inadequate. Another result showed that the students mostly got information about usage of Internet from their family members. A considerable number of students shared their personal information with everyone although they didn't spend a long time in social network sites. Also, there were significant differences between the students' conscious usage of Internet and taken precautions for the problems on the Internet according to grade level. According to the gender, there was no significant difference between them except for items of "making privacy setting on social networks". On the other hand, the results showed that parents' skill of Internet usage was low and, few of them had awareness towards conscious usage of Internet and the students got information mostly from their parents.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Secondary School Students’ Anxiety Levels According to Parameters of Gender, Grade Level, Socioeconomic Level and Reading Frequency

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Yusuf GENÇER ◽  
Sercan DEMİRGÜNEŞ
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Grade Level ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Socioeconomic Level ◽  
School Students ◽  
Reading Anxiety ◽  
Reading Frequency ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Anxiety Levels

The aim of this study is to examine the reading anxiety levels of secondary school students according to parameters of gender, grade level, socioeconomic level and reading frequency. The total number of participants of the study is 598 who are students in a secondary school from different grade levels. In this study, reading anxiety scale and personal information form is used. The collected data is analyzed by using independent t-test, one-way analysis of variance and Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient. Just as the first result of the study, it has been found that the reading anxiety levels of secondary school students are low. No significant difference has been found between the levels of students’ reading anxiety and the levels of gender and grade. However, the students’ reading anxiety levels has differed significantly in favor of those with high socioeconomic level. According to the latest finding obtained from the study, the reading anxiety levels of the students has differed significantly in favor of those who have low reading frequency. Therefore, students reading less have more reading anxiety. These results obtained from the study are discussed as stated to the literature.

scholarly journals Examination of Social Media Attitudes and Loneliness Levels of Secondary Education Students with Regard to Gender and Sport

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Gaye Erkmen ◽  
Mehmet Altin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Education Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Test Analysis ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Students Attitudes

The purpose of the study was to examine secondary school students' attitudes towards social media and their loneliness levels in terms of gender and whether they do sports or not. The sample of the study consisted of 175 female and 269 male secondary school stıdents. To collect data personal information form, Social Media Attitude Scale (Otrar ve Argın, 2013) and UCLA Loneliness Scale (Russell, Peplau, & Cutrona, 1980) were used to in this study. Independent t test analysis was conducted to examine whether the participants' social media attitudes and loneliness levels differed with regard to gender and do sport. According to the results, there was no significant difference in social media attitudes (t = -.832, p > .05) with regard to gender. However, loneliness levels of the participants seems to be significantly different with regard to gender (t = -6.513, p = .000). When the participants were examined whether they do sports or not, there was not any significant difference in social media attitudes (t = -.427, p> .05). However, the levels of loneliness was significantly found to be different in terms of doing sports or not (t = -3.675, p = .000). Furthermore, there was not a significant relationship between social media attitudes and loneliness (p > .05). It can be concluded that sport and regular physical activity can be considered as a means to provide environments where individuals will feel far away from the feeling of loneliness and that they will feel themselves more valuable. 

scholarly journals Prevalence and risk factors associated with depression among higher secondary school students residing in a boarding school of North Kerala, India

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 735
Author(s):  
Urmila K. V. ◽  
Usha K. ◽  
Mohammed M. T. P. ◽  
Kavitha Pavithran
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Prevalence Of Depression ◽  
Associated Risk Factors

Background: Depression is very common among higher secondary school students. This study is to determine the prevalence of depressive symptoms in higher secondary school students in a boarding school of North Kerala; to identify associated risk factors; to compare the prevalence depression between those attending and not attending additional tuition class for competitive exams.Methods: This cross sectional observational study was conducted among 130 students residing in a boarding school of North Kerala during the period 2014-2015. CES-DC scale was used to measure the prevalence of depression. All of them were reassessed after 1year of entering the school with the same scale.Results: The prevalence of clinically significant depression was seen in 57.7% and the prevalence was more in those attending the tuition class (p=0.0068). Depression was more in girls and still higher in girls who attended the tuition classes (p=0.035). There was significant correlation between the prevalence of depression and stream of subjects selected (p =0.001), previous academic achievement (p= 0.01). The scores of depressions didn’t show any statistically significant difference after one year of stay in boarding school.Conclusions: Severity of depression correlates with academic stress especially in boarding schools. Stress of competitive exams definitely more in higher secondary students and is one of the important cause for depression in them. Adolescents are not acquiring enough coping skills to overcome depression. Enhancing the coping strategies and the rescheduling of the educational system are the most important factors for prevention of these symptoms.

scholarly journals Impact of Educational Intervention on Secondary School Students’ Knowledge, Practices and Attitudes Regarding to COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manal Mohamed Ahmed Ayed1 ◽  
Amel abd Elaziem Mohamed ◽  
Thorea Mohamed Mahmoud ◽  
Seham Mohammed AbdElaziz
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Educational Intervention ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
School Students ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background: Coronavirus pandemic disease 2019 is considered an emerging respiratory disease that is highly infectious and is caused by coronavirus and was detected in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. Coronavirus has affected educational systems worldwide and led to the total closures of schools, universities, and colleges, in the middle of March 2020. The study aimed to evaluate the impact of educational intervention on secondary school students’ knowledge, practical knowledge and attitudes regarding to COVID-19. Methods: A pre/post quasi-experimental design was adopted. A total of 260 students were selected at secondary school students in Sohag City in the study from 20 April to 2 May 2020. The tools utilized in this study consists of: A self-administered questionnaire which contains four parts to assess secondary school students' demographic, knowledge regarding COVID -19, the attitude toward COVID -19 and practice regarding COVID -19 and health education Arabic booklet was prepared by the researchers. The COVID-19 related questionnaire was designed using Google forms regarding the COVID-19, the link of the survey was sent to the respondents via Facebook and Whatsapp groups. Results: A statistically significant difference between secondary students' knowledge attitudes, and practices before and after educational intervention. 202 (77.7%) had a poor pretest attitude level followed by fair (20.0%) and good 6 (2.3%). In the posttest, all 260 students had a good attitude level which improved after educational intervention implementation. (57.7%) had poor pretest practice levels followed by fair (38.3%) and good 10 (4.0%). Recommendations: It is important to encourage cooperation between educational institutions, medical care providers, and health personnel to educate secondary school students about COVID-19.

scholarly journals ATTITUDE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS TOWARDS LIFE SKILL EDUCATION IN BALASORE DISTRICT

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (65) ◽  
pp. 15231-15239
Author(s):  
Satyabrata Das
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
T Test ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Life Skill ◽  
School Students ◽  
Significant Difference

Today’s children live in a very complex environment. They are exposed to various problems in their adolescence period like smoking, alcoholism, drug abuse, sexual abuse, poverty and early pregnancy etc. To face all these challenges, life skill education plays an important role. So life skill education finds a special place in today’s school curriculum. Therefore there is a need to study the attitude of secondary school students towards Life skill education. Hence, the study was taken with two objectives:(1) To study the attitude of secondary students towards life skill education.(2) To compare the attitudinal score towards life skill education between boys and girls. In order to study the above objective the researcher took 100 sample that is 50 boys and 50 girls from Balasore district through random sampling. The descriptive survey method was used by the investigator to carry out research work. He used a 5 point attitude scale by following the Likert attitude scale for the data collection. For the statistical analysis of data the researcher used mean, standard deviation, inferential statistics and ‘t’ test. Results revealed that there is a positive attitude of secondary school students towards life skill education. And another interpretation through ‘t’ test revealed that there is significant difference between the attitude of boys and girls towards life skill education. Thus, the above result clearly revealed that the life skill education has large impact on secondary school students and the girls attitude was better than the boys towards life skill education.

scholarly journals A STUDY ON HIGHER SECONDARY STUDENTS EMOTIONAL MATURITY AND ACHIEVEMENT IN ECONOMICS IN TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-32
Author(s):  
M Rajakumar
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
School Students ◽  
Emotional Maturity ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Mean

The aim of this study is to find out the Emotional Maturity and Achievement in Economics of higher secondary students in Tirunelveli District. 1060 Higher secondary students were taken as sample. The tool used to find out the Emotional Maturity is constructed and standardized by Emotional Maturity Scale Constructed and Validated by K.M.Roma Pal (1984). The Academic achievement in Economics was found out using the tool constructed by the investigator. The mean value of Emotional Maturity scores (136.53) indicates that the higher secondary students are having extremely unstable Emotional Maturity, The mean value of Achievement in Economics scores (M=75.47) indicates that the higher secondary students are having high Achievement in Economics. There is significant difference between male and female, Day scholar and Hostel staying Higher Secondary students with respect to their Emotional Maturity. There is no significant difference between rural and urban, Government and Aided Higher Secondary school students with respect to their Emotional Maturity. There is significant difference between male and female Higher Secondary students with respect to their Achievement in Economics. There is no significant difference between rural and urban, Day scholar and Hostel staying, Government and Aided Higher Secondary school students with respect to their Achievement in Economics.

scholarly journals Gender differences in anger expressions among secondary students

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 1100
Author(s):  
Nor Shafrin Ahmad ◽  
Rahimi Che Aman ◽  
Ahmad Zamri Khairani
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Anger Expression ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
School Students ◽  
School Counsellors ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Anger Expressions

Individuals with choleric temperaments easily get angry and can be problematic if not expressed appropriately. The purpose of this study was to identify gender differences in anger expressions among secondary school students. Respondents were secondary school students in four states in the Northern region of Malaysia. A total of 3348 students were involved, including 1,800 males and 1,548 females. Respondents aged between 13 and 16 were randomly selected from 20 secondary schools. Descriptive analyses and t-test were used to identify anger expressions among secondary school students. Findings showed that 780 respondents agreed that they are hot-tempered, while 2568 others did not. From the 780 hot-tempered respondents, 370 are males and 410 are females. A total of 3160 from the 3348 respondents did not meet their school counsellors for counselling sessions when they had anger problems. The findings also revealed a significant difference in four types of anger expressions between male and female students. They were in aggressive, verbal, intrinsic anger expression, and intrinsic anger control. The findings revealed that school counsellors need to equip students with specific, creative, and innovative interventions to cope with different anger expression.

scholarly journals Investigation of writing tendencies of secondary school students with regards to various variablesOrtaokul öğrencilerinin yazma eğilimlerinin farklı değişkenler açısından incelenmesi

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 909
Author(s):  
Fatih Kana ◽  
Durmuş Özbaşı ◽  
Süleyman Ünlü
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Female Students ◽  
The State ◽  
Reading Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Descriptive Survey ◽  
Academic Year

<p>The purpose of this study is to investigate writing tendencies of secondary school students with regards to different variables. Descriptive survey model was used in the study to find out students’ general writing tendencies. Writing Tendency Inventory which was adapted into Turkish by İşeri and Ünal (2010)  and which has 21 items, was used in this study. The sampling of this study consists of 1145 secondary school students in 2013-2014 academic year. T-test and one-way variance analysis were used in the analysis of the collected data in this study. The findings of this study reveal that there has been a significant difference in students’ writing tendencies depending on their classes, gender, their state of keeping or not keeping a diary, the number of the books that they read in the former year, the reading group that they feel they belong to  and the state of their liking or not liking to read. As a conclusion of the study, it can be suggested that secondary students’ writing tendencies (with regards to reliance, passion and continuity sub-dimensions) are higher at first years compared to other classes (especially at the 5th year) and they have more tendency to write.  Besides, female students were found to have higher writing tendencies, and it can also be suggested that writing tendency is closely related to the number of read books, the state of keeping or not keeping a diary or the state of liking or not liking to read.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Özet</strong></p><p>Bu çalışmanın amacı ortaokul öğrencilerinin yazma eğilimlerini çeşitli değişkenler açısından incelemektir. Araştırma öğrencilerin genel yazma eğilimlerinin araştırılması bakımından betimsel türde tarama modelinde bir araştırmadır. Çalışmada öğrencilerin okuma yazma eğilimlerini tespit etmek amacıyla İşeri ve Ünal (2010) tarafından Türkçe ’ye uyarlanan 21 maddeden oluşan yazma eğilimi ölçeği kullanılmıştır. Araştırmanın çalışma grubunu 2013-2014 eğitim öğretim yılında öğrenim görmekte olan 1145 ortaokul öğrencisi oluşturmaktadır. Verilerin analizinde t-testi ve tek yönlü varyans analizi kullanılmıştır. Araştırmanın bulgularına göre, öğrencilerin yazma eğilimleri okudukları sınıf, cinsiyet, günlük tutup tutmamaları, son bir yıl içerisinde okudukları kitap sayısı, kendilerini hissettikleri okuyucu grubu, yazmayı sevip sevmedikleri bakımından anlamlı fark bulunmuştur. Çalışmanın sonucu olarak, yazma eğilimi (güven, tutku ve süreklilik alt boyutlarında) ortaokul öğrencilerinin ilk yıllarında (özellikle beşinci sınıfta) diğer sınıflara göre daha yüksek olduğu, öğrencilerin yazmaya daha yatkın olduğu söylenebilir. Ayrıca kız öğrencilerin yine yazma eğilimlerinin daha yüksek odluğu; yazma eğiliminde okunan kitap sayısının, günlük tutmanın ve yazmayı sevmenin etkili olduğu araştırma sonucuna söylenebilir.</p>

scholarly journals An Investigation of Secondary School Students’ Anxiety and Motivation Levels towards Science Course in Terms of Some Variables

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Belkız CAYMAZ ◽  
Abdullah AYDIN
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Science Anxiety ◽  
School Students ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Public Secondary School ◽  
Significant Difference

This work aims at studying the anxiety and motivation levels of secondary school students towards science course depending on gender, class levels, and their parents’ level of education. In addition, it was aimed to examine the relationship between students' anxiety, motivation, and academic achievement towards science course. The study relies on a relational scannig model within the context of the general scannig model. The research sample consist of 629 students who continue their education at public secondary school in Kastamonu Province, Turkey, in the 2019-2020 academic year. Anxiety Scale for Science Course, Motivation Scale for Science Learning, Personal Information Form, and science grade for the end of the first semester were used as data collection tools in the research. The data obtained from the research were analyzed using the SPSS 22 program. As a result of this study, it is found out that the secondary school students' science anxiety levels were incredibly low but, their motivation levels towards science course were high. Also, it was observed that there was a significant relationship between students’ science anxiety, science motivation and academic achievement. As to gender, it was determined that there was no significant difference between students' anxiety towards science course, and a significant difference between motivation towards science course. In addition, it was determined that students' anxiety and motivation towards science course differ significantly depending on class levels and their parents’ level of education.

A Comparative Study of Vocational Interests of Secondary School Students in Relation to their Gender

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (02) ◽  
pp. 34-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anjali Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Vocational Interests ◽  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
School Students ◽  
Vocational Interest ◽  
Significant Difference

Students all over the world at some points have to make a choice of profession for sustaining their livelihoods. If the chosen profession is according to their choice, they can excel in their field of work. In the present scenario, students and their families are more concerned about their future. In this regard, a study has been conducted to know the vocational interests of Secondary School students concerning their gender. Through this study, the researcher has tried to know and acknowledge the vocational interest of secondary school students in relation to their gender. The simple random sampling procedure selected a sample of 100 students (50 Boys and 50 Girls) reading in various schools in the district of Meerut of Uttar Pradesh state. A standardized tool developed by Bansal V. P and Srivastava D. N. (1975) named “Vocational Interest Record” was used for the collection of primary data. The data were analyzed with the help of Mean, SD, and t-test to study the vocational interests of secondary students. The result revealed that there existed a difference in the vocational interest pattern of secondary school students in different vocational interest areas. The result also revealed that there is a significant difference in the vocational areas of secondary school students in relation to gender variation.

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