2025/07/09 by Ambachew Tarekegn*, Sofiya Endris
#Academic Achievement #Secondary School #Television Watching
paper · doi:10.20372/nadre:8351
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between hours of television watching<br> and student academic achievement. The major objectives of study were examining the status<br> of students’ television watching and the relationship between hours of television watching and<br> academic achievement. There has been a great debate among researchers regarding this area of<br> concern. Some support the contribution of television to academic achievement and others argue<br> that television watching negatively influences academic achievement. Two hundred students<br> were randomly selected for the study. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire.<br> The data collected through questionnaire were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential<br> statistical methods. Students’ background information and their hours of television watching<br> were analyzed using descriptive statistics. On the other hand, the relationship between hours of<br> television watching and academic achievement was analyzed by Pearson moment correlation.<br> The results show there is no statistically significant relationship between hours of television<br> watching and academic achievement of students. Based on this, it can be concluded that television<br> may not have a significant effect on students’ academic achievement by itself.