Analysis the Relationship between Social Media and Education System in Kurdistan region of Iraq Using Chi-Square Test

Authors

  • Jihan A. A. Rassool Computer Science College, University of Duhok, Duhok, Kurdistan Region – Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25007/ajnu.v7n4a282

Keywords:

Social Media, Chi-Square test, Students Database

Abstract

At the beginning of 21st century, the world has faced many challenges and rapid change in the educational environments. The globalization and the birth of internet lead the appearance of social media. The new education system has to cope with the above developments and to realize the demand of the new technologies and their effect on the students learning life. To analysis the effect of social network on education, the Chi-Square test was used to indicate the association relation between the Social Media tools and education. I have used real data of students from two University the first is Government (University Of Duhok) and the other is private-University (Nawroz University) at Duhok-Kurdistan region of Iraq. This paper indicates the association and correlation  between the education and the Social Media, and conclude that the more than 85% of students used Social Media for communication and only  approximate 45% used it for learning and teaching, also this paper indicates a need to orientate and guidance the education system in Kurdistan towered of using the social media in education for elevation of education quality and enhancing their learning because social media facilitate the learning system by participating the educations knowledge in different places of world.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

1. Kaplan Andreas M. Haenlein Michael, (2010), "Users of the world, unite! The challenges and opportunities of social media". Business Horizons 53 (1). p. 61.
2. Gitanjali Kalia, (2013), A Research Paper on Social media: An Innovative Educational Tool, Chitkara University, Punjab, Issues and Ideas in Education , Vol. 1, March pp. 43–50.
3. Winner Dominic Chawinga, (2017), “Taking social media to a university classroom: teaching and learning using Twitter and blogs”, Chawinga International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (2017) 14:3, DOI 10.1186/s41239-017-0041-6, Springer.
4. Aaron Smith and Monica Anderson, (2018), “Social Media Use In 2018”, © Pew Research Center 2018 at www.pewressearch.org.
5. Srivastava, Preeti, (2012), “Social Networking & Its Impact on Education-System in Contemporary Era” International Journal of Information Technology Infrastructure, Volume 1, No.2, November – December, ISSN 2320 2629
6. Srivastava, Preeti, (2011), “Professional Development of Teacher Educator Integrating through ICT”, Paper presented at the National Seminar,”’ Current Issues in Teacher Education.” [UGC-SAP], CASE, Faculty of Education and Psychology, the M.S. University. Of Baroda, Vadodara, March 14-15.
7. Educational Networking, , (2012), Educational Networking. [Online], Available:
http://www.educationalnetworking.com.
8. Sreeja Rajesh, Jithin Michael, (2015), “Effectiveness of Social Media in Education”, International Journal of Innovative Research in Advanced Engineering (IJIRAE) ISSN: 2349-2163, Issue 10, Volume 2.
9. How to Use Social Media in Your College Search. IvyWise Volume 9 Issue 3.
10. Toni Ahlqvist, Asta Bäck, Minna Halonen, Sirkka Heinonen, (2008), “Social Media Roadmaps Exploring the futures triggered by social media” , ISBN 978-951-38-7246-5 (soft back ed.), Copyright © VTT.
11. Rocco J. Perla and 2James Carifio, (2006),“Use of the Chi-square Test to Determine Significance of Cumulative Antibiogram Data”, American Journal of Infectious Diseases 1 (4): 162-167, 2005, ISSN 1553-6203, © Science Publications.
12. J. Magidson, (1994), The CHAID approach to segmentation modeling: CHI-squared automatic interaction detection”. In R. P. Bagozzi, editor, Advanced Methods of Marketing Research, pages 118–159. Blackwell Business.
P. Meesad, P. Boonrawd and V. Nuipian, (2011), “A Chi-Square-Test for Word Importance Differentiation in Text Classification”, International Conference on Information and Electronics Engineering, IPCSIT vol.6, IACSIT Press, Singapore.
13. Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber, (2006), “Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques, Second Edition”, Elsevier.
14. P. Saengsiri, P. Meesad, S. Na Wichian and U. Herwig, (2010), “Comparison of Hybrid Feature Selection Models on Gene Expression Data,” IEEE International Conference on ICT and Knowledge Engineering, pp.13 -18.
15. Fisher RA, Yates F, (1974), “Statistical tables for biological, agricultural and medical research, Sixth edition”, Addison Wesley Longman Ltd.

Published

2018-12-21

How to Cite

Rassool, J. A. A. (2018). Analysis the Relationship between Social Media and Education System in Kurdistan region of Iraq Using Chi-Square Test. Academic Journal of Nawroz University, 7(4), 133–138. https://doi.org/10.25007/ajnu.v7n4a282

Issue

Section

Articles