The Impact of Social Media on the Educational Attainment of Engineering Students under  Conflict and Siege Conditions  at Taiz City, Yemen

Abdulkafi H. Al-Zaghruri; Mogeeb A. Saeed; Mokhtar Ali Amrani

The Impact of Social Media on the Educational Attainment of Engineering Students under Conflict and Siege Conditions at Taiz City, Yemen

Authors

Abdulkafi H. Al-Zaghruri Center of Graduate Studies Taiz University, Taiz – Yemen
Mogeeb A. Saeed Center of Graduate Studies Faculty of engineering and IT Taiz University, Taiz – Yemen
Mokhtar Ali Amrani Faculty of Engineering and IT Taiz University, Taiz – Yemen Faculty of Engineering, Al-Saeed University – Yemen

Keywords:

Academic achievement, Educational platforms, Students GPA, Social Media Overuse

Abstract

This study investigated the influences of Social Media (SM) platforms on the academic achievement of engineering students at Taiz University, Yemen. A descriptive quantitative approach of five-point Likert scale questionnaire targeting 310 respondents from six engineering disciplines has been statistically analyzed using SPSS software. The novelty of this study comes from the poor and unstable respondents due to the civil war and siege imposed on Taiz City for almost a decade. The GPAs of students were considered as a measure of their educational achievement.

Interesting findings are obtained from this study, which are critical for universities, students, faculty members, and families. The results indicated that Yemeni engineering students maximize their SM usage to enhance their academic achievement in the absence of official educational platforms in Yemeni universities, while its adverse effects are minor. Furthermore, SM platforms make students effectively communicate with experts, specialists, and for training purposes. This study recommends conducting more studies for university students, especially in Yemen where high poverty level and political instability are dominant.