CHAPTER ONE
- INTRODUCTION
Nigerians are confronted with an environment that is rapidly changing
and the time spent on non-academic activities has negatively impacted
academic performance. This survey investigates the contribution of time
spent on the internet by students to academic achievement. The
performance of students’ overtime has witnessed a constant depreciation.
Many scholars see this as a direct consequence of governments neglect
on education; some others say the students should share a large part of
the blame. There is no doubt that spending time on the internet helps to
improve ones intelligent quotient and ultimately make one conversant
with happenings around him/her but doing this to the detriment of one’s
studies has done more harm than good in our society. Ezeife 2008 opined
that for students to be able to do academically well, they have spent
little or no time on the internet. But doing this according to oluwatobi
2013 could as well be detrimental to students’ academic performance. it
is no longer news that Nigerian students have so taken to the internet
that do spend little or no time in their studies and these have to the
decline of education in Nigeria. In sum, this study may help to develop
a conceptual framework for guiding efforts to improve academic
performance, as it relates to time used on the internet.