Impact of Smartphone Usage on the Academic Performance of Students at Public Sector University in Karachi

Abstract

This research study was conducted to examine the impact of Smartphone usage on the academic achievement of students at a public-sector university in Karachi. The strategy of the research was quantitative and the population of the study was limited to a public university in Karachi. The simple random sampling technique was applied to collect the data and the sample size of the study was 100 respondents. Moreover, the data was analyzed through inferential statistics tool simple linear regression by employing statistical packages of social sciences 20 (SPSS). The findings of the study indicate that the usage of Smartphones influences positively the Academic Performance of students.Students easily and inexpensively access the content and related material. However, the findings also depict that the appropriate use of Smartphones is key to avoiding the overuse that poses numerous problems such as distraction, etc.