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6 Chapter (2) Methodology

The document describes the methodology used in a study about the impact of internet usage on academic performance of students at Comilla University. Primary data was collected through questionnaires distributed to 115 students across 14 departments. The questionnaire gathered data on demographics, internet usage habits, and academic performance. Data analysis included ANOVA, correlation tests, and multiple linear regression to analyze relationships between internet usage time, study time, income and academic performance. Limitations included a limited research area focused only on one university and potential bias and untruthful responses from some participants.

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6 Chapter (2) Methodology

The document describes the methodology used in a study about the impact of internet usage on academic performance of students at Comilla University. Primary data was collected through questionnaires distributed to 115 students across 14 departments. The questionnaire gathered data on demographics, internet usage habits, and academic performance. Data analysis included ANOVA, correlation tests, and multiple linear regression to analyze relationships between internet usage time, study time, income and academic performance. Limitations included a limited research area focused only on one university and potential bias and untruthful responses from some participants.

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Chapter-2: Methodology

2.1 Data

Methodology is the most important part in any study, particularly, in research works.
The research is based on field level primary data which were collected from the
students of different departments of Comilla University. All the students of Comilla
University were considered as population. Here sampling units are the students of
Comilla University. In order to achieve the objectives of this study we have used
primary source of information. Primary data have been taken from the respondents
through a questionnaire. The sample size consisted of 115 students and a
questionnaire was provided to them in order to fill it in. The questionnaire was
divided into two main areas. The first part of the questionnaire contains some basic
information like gender, age, monthly income, CGPA etc. The second part of the
questionnaire focused on Internet usage. This part attempted to examine whether the
respondents have internet access, whether they use these for their academic purpose
or other purposes like social networking, study purpose, income money or only for
entertainment. In terms of data analysis, ANOVA for mean comparison was used, to
identify the impact of Internet access on the CGPA (performance) of the students.
And correlation between ‘Time spends on internet’ and ‘Time spends on study’ was
performed to show their relationship.

2.2 Study area

Every research has a target population from where we collect data, we analyze and
make decision. Target population is population where our desired data are available.
Our aim was to find out the impact of Internet usage on the academic performance of
Comilla University’s students. For this reason our study area was limited in Comilla
University campus, Comilla University’s hall.

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2.3 Study population


According to the title of this project it is obvious that all the students of Comilla
University are my study population. Considering the time, cost and resources
constraints allotted for this survey, we considered 115 respondents from fourteen
departments for this project purpose. And our sampling unit was those students who
have completed at least 3 semesters.

2.4 Data Collection


A closed ended questionnaire has been distributed among the students of Comilla
University. Data have been collected from Honors students, both male and female.
The data have been collected through face to face interview by the surveyor. With the
cooperation of the students, we distributed the questionnaires after the class time.
Some questionnaire also distributed in male hall in this University.

2.5 Data collection instrument


Questionnaire is the main object of research work and the data for the study were
collected by the interview method. The questionnaire is developed to collect data
based on objective requirement for our survey need. The questionnaire is given in the
appendix.

2.6 Questionnaire development


Questionnaire is the most important part of any kind of research and it is the key to
collect required information of respondent. Questionnaire is the list of a research or
survey questions asked to respondents, and designed to gain specific information. It
serves four basic purposes: to (1) collect the appropriate data, (2) make data
comparable and amenable to analysis, (3) minimize bias in formulating and asking
question, and (4) to make questions engaging and varied. For this study purpose we
prepared a questionnaire the study ‘Impact of Internet on academic performance of
Comilla University students’.

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2.7 Method of Data Collection


There are several primary data collecting methods are.
 Through Interview
 Through questionnaire
 Through Schedules
 Through Local agents
 Through observation
 Through experimentation
From this above method, questionnaire method is quite popular; we used this method
for our study purpose.

2.8 Editing
To check and scrutinize each questionnaire thoroughly whether the respondents given
wrong answer for required information is called data editing. Editing detects errors
and omission, corrects them wherever possible, and certifies that minimum data
quality standards are achieved. The editor’s responsibility is to guarantee that data are
(1) accurate, (2) consistent with the intent of the question or other information (3)
uniformly entered (4) complete and (5) arranged to simplify coding and tabulation.
Editing of all questionnaire is so helpful for better output because in this process
eliminate that are obviously erroneous and inconsistent data information. The entire
mistakes have been corrected and all the answer of the questionnaire has been
observed carefully. As a result, this questionnaire is completely free from irrelevant
information.

2.9 Data analysis procedure


At first data were inputted into SPSS data sheet. Taking each question from the
questionnaire 27 variables was created. Among the variables four variables are
measured as scale and others are categorical variable. For this reason, creating some
value label and for appropriate analysis recoding the numeric value was needed. And
all of these things were done with SPSS 20.

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2.10 Univariate Analysis


Simple frequency tables, graphical analyses were performed in this part of analysis to
show the percentages and frequencies.

2.11 Bivariate Analysis

Crosstab, Chi-square test and correlation were performed to show the relationship
between two variables.

2.12 Multiple linear regression

Multiple linear regression analysis was performed between ‘CGPA’ and ‘Time spends
on internet’ and ‘Time spend on study’ and ‘Income’ for finding out combine effect of
these variables on CGPA.

2.13 Limitation of the study

 Research area: The area of this research is not so wide rather it is confined
into Comilla University. It could be wider.
 Tendency to hide the truth: The respondents are found to hesitate to answer
some questions.
 Data collection method: Some of the data are collected through classmates,
for this reason some of the respondents might be biased by others.

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