RAJIV GANDHI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES

KARNATAKA, BANGALORE
ANNEXURE I
SYNOPSIS PROFORMA FOR REGISTRATION OF SUBJECT FOR DISSERTATION

NAME AND ADDRESS Ms. ANUMOL JOSE

1. OF THE CANDIDATE 1ST YEAR MSc NURSING
KNN COLLEGE OF NURSING
YELAHANKA, BANGALORE

NAME OF THE KNN COLLEGE OF NURSING,

2. INSTITUTION CA 23/B, A SECTOR, SATELITE TOWN,
YELAHANKA, BANGALORE-64

COURSE OF STUDY MASTERS IN CHILD HEALTH NURSING

3. AND SUBJECT

DATE OF ADMISSION 15-06-2011

4. OF THE STUDY

TITLE OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COMPUTER ASSISTED

5. STUDY TEACHING ON THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL
NETWORKING SITES AMONG HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENTS.

6. BRIEF RESUME OF THE INTENDED WORK

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 Internet:  absolute communication, absolute isolation. 

-Paul Carve

INTRODUCTION:

Over the past decade, technology has become increasingly important in the

lives of adolescents. As a group, adolescents are heavy users of newer electronic

communication forms such as instant messaging, e-mail, and text messaging, as well

as communication-oriented Internet sites. The increasing ubiquity of web-based social

networking services is a striking feature of modern human society. The degree to

which individuals participate in these networks varies substantially for reasons that

are unclear.1

Social Media in India is growing by leaps and bounds but till date there was

no definitive research that tracked this growth. The findings of a report on social

media say that about 30 million Indians who are online consumers are members of

social networking sites. Over the next six months 45,000 online Indians intend to join

social networking sites each day. Social Media in India is growing at 100 percent and

is likely to touch 45 million users by 2012. 2

A social networking service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses

on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, who,

for example, share interests and/or activities. Most social network services are web-

based and provide means for users to interact over the Internet.  Social networking

sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual

networks.3

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 Experian Hitwise found that Brazil and Singapore are the top two countries for

overall social networking use. Market share for social networks and forums found

Brazil and Singapore at first and second place(18.9%, 16.4% respectively). India

stands fourth with 14% and U.K counts eighth with 12.2% according to Jon Mitchell.4

Today, “Children spend up to 49 minutes each day texting, 38 minutes surfing

the net and one hour playing video games. Excessive Internet use is emerging as one

of the more negative aspects of young people's online activities. Internet addiction,

the term we use here, has been defined as the use of the Internet to escape from

negative feelings, continued use of the Internet, thinking about the Internet constantly,

and the experience of any other conflicts or self-conflicts due to Internet use. In the

past two years, there have been at least 285 cases of child cyber crimes recorded.5

Computer-assisted teaching (CAT) refers to instruction or teaching presented

on a computer. Many educational computer programs are available online and from

computer stores and textbook companies. Computer programs are interactive and can

illustrate a concept through attractive animation, sound, and demonstration. They

allow students to progress at their own pace. Computers offer a different type of

activity.6

An empirical study focused on finding out the effectiveness of Computer

Assisted Teaching (CAT) in teaching Civics over traditional method, was conducted

on 500 students (both girls and boys) selected from Class IX students of Secondary

Schools in Aligarh City (India) found that CAT method was more effective than the

traditional method in teaching Civics at Class IX level. The study demonstrated that

CAT produced significant positive difference in the achievement on the knowledge,

comprehension and application aspects.7

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 Large classrooms with frequent absence are the environments where students

seem most likely to benefit from computer-assisted instruction, according to a

working paper released by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Computers

capture the students’ attention because the programs are interactive and engage the

students’ spirit of competitiveness to increase their scores. Computer-assisted

instruction is considered valuable, as it allows more individually tailored instruction

in large, diverse classrooms where teachers find it hard to target each student with the

appropriate level of work.7

Hence, an appropriate teaching on social networking sites according to the

needs of different age groups helps in guiding children for a proper and methodical

use and it can work wonders. However, if the media exposes children to a world for

which they are too young and immature to comprehend and internalize, it can do a

great damage.

6.1 NEED FOR THE STUDY

Clare McDougall, education programme director from the energy firm npower

says that: "The summer holidays are traditionally a time when you expect children to

be outdoors playing with their friends. But the lure of technology has made it harder

to get young people to switch off." A study from power also states that Britain's

youngsters spend 10 hours a day in front of TVs, computers, phones and videogame

consoles.8

According to an article, On a typical day, 70 percent of teens, ageing 12 to

17yrs and 17 million teenagers spend from a minute to hours on Face book, MySpace

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and other social networking sites, according to The National Center on Addiction and

Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University.9

There is enough evidence that Internet addiction has lead to negative effects

on children specially in areas like academics (a drop in grades), family relations

(having to hide their excessive Internet use from parents), physical health (sleep

deprivation due to long hours of Internet use), mental health (depression), and finance

(cost of accrued Internet expenses).5

A study conducted in Ohio University on Information disclosure and control

on Facebook during the fall of 2009 march explored undergraduate student’s

information disclosure and information control on Facebook. The participants in the

survey were 343 undergraduate students who were current users of Facebook. Results

indicated that 69% of participants perceived that they disclosed more information

about themselves on Facebook than in general, It clearly shows that information

disclosure through networking sites are much more compared to any other, which can

be harming.1

A was study conducted on Social Media Influences Adolescent Behavior in

the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, involving 500 randomly chosen Web

profiles of adolescents in the ages 11-18yrs from the United States . The researchers

found that 54% of the MySpace profiles contained high-risk behavior information,

with 41% referencing substance abuse, 24% referencing sexual behavior and 14%

referencing violence. The study concluded that majority of the adolescence forms

high risk behavior through social networking sites.10

A study was conducted in Colorado, among 3,339 students in Grades 5, 8 and

11 in 78 school sites, on the prevalence and predictors of internet bullying in contrast

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to the prevalence of physical and verbal bullying. They were evaluated based on given

questionnaires .The result showed highest prevalence rates were found for verbal

54%, followed by physical 26%, and then by internet bullying 20%. Physical and

internet peaked in middle school and declined in high school. Thus, it concludes that

the internet bullying is an emerging problem of the adolescents in the society.11

Social networking sites has potential for positive effects on child health

besides the negatives. Thus, the researcher feels that there is a potential need to find

ways to optimize the role of this media in our society, taking advantage of their

positive attributes and minimizing their negatives. The ultimate goal is to reach youth

with positive messaging.12

The greatest contribution of present day technology is the development of

computer and its use in every walk of life, especially in the field of education. Studies

have demonstrated that Computer assisted teaching have produced significant positive

difference in the achievement on the knowledge, comprehension and application

aspect of the students.6

An experimental study was conducted among 84 chemistry students at

Hacettepe University, Turkey to assess the effectiveness of computer assisted

teaching over the traditional method and the data was collected using structured

questionnaires and was analysed using ‘t’ test. The result stated that the average

increase scores of the experimental group students was found to be 52% where as the

average increase with the control group was found to be 32% only. This states the

effectiveness of computer assisted teaching over the traditional teaching method.13

A meta-analysis research study was done to find the effectiveness of computer

assisted science teaching among 120 students of SNDT Women’s University, Pune,
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India . Single group and control/comparison group pre-test and post-test designs were

used. The ‘t’ tests for comparison of pre and post-test means have revealed that CAT

has in every case led to increased achievement that is, in 92% cases, it has proved

superior. This states that CAT is indeed effective in bringing about learning.14

In contrast to the traditional methods, in Computer-Assisted teaching (CAT),

the teacher can use computers at different times and places according to the

characteristics of the subject matter, the students, and the available software and

hardware. In addition, there is added variety and novelty in CAT, along with the

potential to use vivid and animated graphics, enabling three dimensional aspects, and

other features to be viewed more realistically.13

Through the review of literature the investigator realizes that the increasing

networking of various channels are exposing every Indian adolescent to many violent

incidents which they are not able to separate from real life settings due to their

immaturity. Thus the researcher strongly feels that there is a great need to make

adolescents aware of the pros and cons of social networking and sites. The use of

computer assisted teaching on the other hand is expected to enhance better

understanding and achievement in order to help students to use these technologies

effectively and usefully.

6.2 REVIEW OF LITERATURE :

The review of literature is traditionally considered as a systematic critical

review of the most important published scholarly literature on a particular topic. It is a

description and analysis of the literature relevant to a particular field or topic, which

gives an overview of what has been done and reports on their findings.

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The literature review of the present study is listed down.

Literature related to usage of social networking sites:

A study was conducted on Social Awareness in Relation to Media among

High School Students in Indian settings with the objectives of assessing media options

among high school students. Forty-five (20 girls and 25 boys) eighth grade students

from a private coaching centre, Pune participated in the study. Media Awareness

Questionnaire (MAQ) was used to evaluate the data. It was observed that a large

section of students (51%) favored sports supplement with first priority, followed by

internet surfing (22%) and movies (20%). Only 6% of the students opted for editorial

and critical articles as their first choice. It shows that internet use is getting counted as

their major media option.12

A study was conducted on Instant messaging, Text messaging and

Adolescence social network in Department of Telecommunications Indiana

University. The data was collected from 400 students of 7th-grade at a middle school

in the United States. The questionnaires was about the use of different media. Result

indicated participants spent, on average, over four more hours per week watching

television (14.55 hours) and the computer (10.37 hours)was the second popular

media. While they are online, the participants in the study spend time surfing the

Internet (87.5%), working on homework (85.0%), playing computer games (85.0%),

sending and receiving email (80.0%), and instant messaging (60.0%), among other

activities. It shows that majority prefer computer after the all time favorite

television.15

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 Tsai and Lin suggest that Internet addiction is an important concern among

adolescents; in their study of 700 Taiwanese high school students, 88 were deemed

Internet addicts according to the Internet Addiction Scale for high school students in

Taiwan (IAST). Current research does indicate that ego-identity achievement in

middle school students is negatively related to pathological and extreme Internet use.

This says that students are getting addicted to internet which is the present revolving

problem of the adolescents of today.5

Another study was done on social media use in the United States to identify

the socio-demographic factors associated with current social media use in the United

States. Data came from the 2007 iteration of the Health Information National Trend

Study (HINTS, N=7674). Approx. 69% of US adults reported having access to the

internet in 2007. Among internet users, 5% participated in an online support group,

7% reported blogging , and 23% used a social networking site. Multivariate analysis

found that younger age was the significant predictor of blogging and social

networking site participation, a statistically significant linear relationship was

observed, with younger categories reporting more frequent. This shows that the

adolescents and teens are rooting in socializing through networking sites.16

Literature related to positive impacts of social networking sites

This study examined cross-national differences in the usage of social

networking websites (SNWs) between university students in India and the United

States. A total of 245 Indian university students and 241 American university students

completed a survey about privacy attitudes and behaviors as well as communication

patterns on SNWs. As far as the total number of content items selected, Indian
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students on average selected 8.53 (SD = 4.29) compared to American students who on

average selected 9.03 (SD = 3.49). Finally, the research showed that Indian and

American students communicate and publish on their SNWs about a wide array of

topics. This means it is an important media for socialization and to exhibit interest in

various activities globally.17

A study was done on the benefits of facebook friends, social capital and

college students use of online social network sites by department of

telecommunication, information studies and media Michigan state universities. This

study examines the relationship between use of Facebook and maintenance of social

capital, and also assess one's ability to stay connected with previously inhabited

community that is to maintain social capital. Regression analyses conducted on results

from survey of undergraduate students (N=286) suggest a strong association between

use of Facebook and the social capital, with the strongest relationship being to

bridging social capital. It suggests Facebook usage was found to interact with

measures of psychological well-being, suggesting that it might provide greater

benefits for users experiencing low self-esteem and low life satisfaction.18

Recently, researchers have emphasized the importance of Internet-based

linkages for the formation of weak ties, which serve as the foundation of bridging

social capital. Because online relationships may be supported by technologies like

distribution lists, photo directories, and search capabilities, it is possible that new

forms of social capital and relationship building will occur in online social network

sites. Bridging social capital might be augmented by such sites, which support loose

social ties, allowing users to create and maintain larger, diffuse networks of

relationships from which they could potentially draw resources. Donath and Boyd

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(2004) hypothesize that SNSs could greatly increase the weak ties one could form and

maintain, because the technology is well-suited to maintaining such ties cheaply and

easily.19

A Study on the impact of social networking sites on Indian youth was

conducted by Dept. of Media Sciences, Anna University Chennai, India. To identify

and assess issues regarding youth social networking usage and the resultant impact on

their social interactions. The sample size was 100 [50 teens 17-19yrs and 50 youths

20-22yrs]. The findings of the study include 98 % are members in social networking

sites and 68% interact with strangers. But 10% share their personal problems with

online friends while 7% have very intimate relationship with their online friends

(strangers). And 20% are good friends with the virtual strangers. Thus it is a positive

indicator that Indian youth are not only techno-savvy and socially active, but they also

possess social consciousness.20

Literature related to negative impacts of social networking sites

A study was conducted on Youth, social networking sites and alcohol marketing

to examine how young people in New Zealand engage with alcohol and reproduce

alcohol marketing messages on the Internet. Data are drawn from approximately 150

Web pages and analyzed by way of textual analysis and cyberspace ethnography. The

result stated that 55% Social networking sites, provide young people with a digital

space to share a range of salcohol marketing messages via peer-to-peer transmission,

and Certain sites enables youth to communicate to one another on alcohol

consumption and their views of alcohol marketing messages. The information being

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shared by young people who use these sites openly. This study clearly highlights the

threat for young internet users.21

A research was conducted on exposure to tobacco on the internet to analyze

adolescent’s internet use. Internet-tracking was installed on home computers used by

346 eligible consenting participants. All web pages viewed by adolescent participants

were captured during a 30-day period for each subject. The result stated that social

networking sites, mainly MySpace, represented 53% of pages (n=4612) on which

tobacco content was found. All pages with smoking content contained references in

text, and 256 (3%) contained images. 43% of the adolescents were exposed to

protobacco imagery. Cigarettes were mentioned on 20% of pages. Tobacco products

were sold on 50 pages and 242 pages contained links to tobacco products sold on

other pages. It suggests the need of adolescents being aware about the consequences

of networking sites.22

Another study was conducted on comparison of places online where youth

sexual solicitation and harassment occur, focused on sites such as MySpace and

Facebook, widely used to sexually solicit underage youth. It was a cross-sectional

survey of 1588 youth between 10-15yrs old who used internet atleast once in the last

6months. 15% of youth reported an unwanted sexual solicitation online, 4% reported

an incident on social networking site specifically.33% reported an online harassment,

9% reported an incident on social networking site specifically. Thus the study reveals,

the focus on psychosocial problem of youth is the need of the day, thus youth

outreach programs, school anti-bullying programs and mental health services are

necessary.23

Literature related to effectiveness of computer assisted teaching

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 A study was conducted to assess the effects of computer assisted instruction

(CAI) on secondary school students’ performance in biology. This study investigated

the effects of computer assisted instruction (CAI) on secondary school students’

performance in biology. The research was a quasi experimental involving a 3 x 2

factorial design. The sample for the study comprised 120 first year senior secondary

school students (SSS I) sampled from three private secondary schools, in Oyo State,

Nigeria. The findings of the study showed that the performance of students exposed to

CAI either individually or cooperatively were better than their counterparts exposed

to the conventional classroom instruction. It ensures the effectiveness of computer

assisted teaching.24

A Comparative study was conducted on Computer-Assisted Instruction and

the Traditional Method of Teaching Basic Statistics. The objective of the study was to

determine a significant difference in the effects of the treatment and control groups on

achievement as measured by the posttest. A class of 38 sophomore college students in

the basic statistics taught with the use of computer-assisted instruction and another

class of 15 students with the use of the traditional method from the University of the

East, Manila (SY 2003-2004). The research method used was the quasi-experimental,

non-equivalent control group design. The researcher made use of the CD-ROM

prepared by Math Advantage (1997). The findings of the study is, the achievement

posttest of the treatment group has higher (73%) estimated marginal means than the

control group with 57 %. This means the computer assisted teaching was effective

when compared to the traditional method.25

6.3 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM:

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 A study to assess the effectiveness of computer assisted teaching on the impact

of social networking sites among high school students in selected school, Bangalore.

6.4 THE OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:

1. To assess the pre test level of knowledge of the high school students regarding

impact of social networking sites.

2. To find the effectiveness of the computer assisted teaching on impact of social

networking sites among high school students of selected school, Bangalore.

3. To explore the association between post-test level of knowledge on impact of

social networking sites with their selected demographic variables of students.

6.5 HYPOTHESES:

H1 -There will be significant difference between means of pre and post test

knowledge score of the students after attending computer assisted teaching on impact

of social networking sites.

H2 -There will be a significant association between the mean post-test knowledge

score of students with their selected demographic variable.

6.6 OPERATIONAL DEFINITION

Assess Assess is an activity to judge or decide the amount, value, quality or

importance of the outcome of the adolescents knowledge on social networking sites.

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Effectiveness It refers to significant gain in knowledge as determined by significant

difference between pre-test and post-test knowledge score.

Computer assisted teaching It refers to teaching the students with the help of

computer like power point presentation including videos and animations.

Impact It refers to both positive and negative effects of social networking.

Social networking sites These are the medium for Communication and socialization

through internet.

High school children They are the school going children who comes under the age

group of 13-16yrs, studying in 8th, 9th and 10th std.

6.7 ASSUMPTIONS

 The high school students may have some knowledge regarding the impact of

social networking sites.

 The high school students may have a greater risk of misusing the social

networking sites.

 Computer Assisted Teaching may help high school students to gain adequate

knowledge on impact of social networking sites.

 Adequate knowledge may help to guide high school students to utilize social

networking sites effectively.

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6.8 DELIMITATIONS

This study is delimited to:

1. 60 high school students from a selected school, Bangalore.

2. Four weeks period of data collection.

3. High school students in the age group of 13-16yrs only.

7. MATERIALS AND METHOD OF STUDY:

7.1 SOURCES OF DATA:

Students from 8th, 9th and 10th stds, from a selected school, Bangalore.

7.2 METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION:

7.2.1 TYPE OF STUDY/ RESEARCH APPROACH:

Experimental study / quantitative approach

7.2.2 RESEARCH DESIGN:

Quasi-experimental design.

7.2.3 VARIABLES:-

Independent variable – Computer assisted teaching on impact of social networking

sites

Dependant variables – Knowledge of high school students on impact of social

networking sites
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7.2.4 SAMPLING TECNIQUE:

Stratified random sampling technique

7.2.5 SAMPLE AND SAMPLE SIZE:

60 high school students

7.2.6 SELECTION CRITERIA:

Inclusion criteria

 60 high school students b/w the age group of 13-16yrs of a selected school

Bangalore.

 High school students who are willing to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

 Students who are not willing to participate in the study.

 Students who are not available at the time of study.

7.2.7 DURATION OF STUDY:

One month of data collection

7.2.8 TOOL OR INSTRUMENT:

Section A: - Socio-demographic Profile

Section B:- structured knowledge questionnaire on impact of social networking

sites.

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7.2.9 DATA COLLECTION PROCEDURE:

A formal consent from respective school authorities are taken and then the samples

are selected through a stratified random sampling technique. Written consent will be

taken from the participants after explaining the purpose of the study. Pretest will be

conducted using structured knowledge questionnaire to assess the knowledge of the

students regarding the impacts of social networking sites. On the 8 th day a post-test

will be conducted using the same knowledge questionnaire.

7.2.10 PLAN FOR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS:

The data obtained will be tabulated and analyzed in terms of the objectives of the

study by using descriptive and inferential statistics.

The plan of data analysis is as follows:

Descriptive statistics:

a) Frequency and percentage distribution will be used to analyze the socio-

demographic variables.

b) Mean and standard deviation will be used to assess the pre-test and post-test

knowledge level

Inferential statistics:

a) Paired ‘t’ test to assess the effectiveness of computer assisted teaching

b) “Chi-square” test to find out the association of post-test level of knowledge

and selected demographic variables of high school students.

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7.3 Does the study require any investigation or intervention on

patient or human/animal? If so describe briefly.

Yes, a computer assisted teaching is performed on the students regarding the impacts

of social networking sites and the knowledge is assessed using a structured knowledge

questionnaire regarding the impact of social networking sites.

7.4 Has ethical clearance been obtained?

Yes, ethical clearance will be obtained from concerned authorities and a written

consent will be taken from the subjects. Confidentiality and anonymity of the subjects

will be maintained.

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SIGNATURE OF THE
CANDIDATE
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 REMARKS OF THE GUIDE As more adolescents with their
immaturity are becoming the consumers
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create awareness among them by
highlighting its pros and cons.

NAME AND DESIGNATION OF:

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GUIDE Mrs. Anjana Mathew

Asst. Prof.
11.1 Child Health Nursing
SIGNATURE

11.2

CO-GUIDE

11.3

SIGNATURE

11.4

HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT Mrs. Anjana Mathew

Asst. Prof.
11.5 Child Health Nursing
SIGNATURE

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REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL A good study feasible and relevant for

the present social scenario among high
12.1 school students.

SIGNATURE

12.2

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