'Research on Internet Usage Among Penang Matriculation College\r'

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It is impossible to give an withdraw count of the number of networks or users that lie in the profits, but it is easily in the thousands and millions respectively.The earnings employs a set of standardized protocols which have sex for the sharing of resources among polar k inds of computers that communicate with each other on the network. These standards, some clock referred to as the earnings Protocol Suite, are the rules that developers bring to postulateher to when creating new functions for the meshwork. The internet is as well as what we call a distributed system; in that location is no central archive. Technically, no one runs the internet. Rather, the internet is act up of thousands of smaller networks.The internet thrives and develops as its some(prenominal) users get new ways to create, display and retrieve the information that constitutes the internet. (ii) OBJECTIVES The primary(prenominal) objective of conducting this experiment is to examine the internet economic consumption among Penang Matriculation College (PMC) pupils. The batch is designed to answer the following questions; 1) How the savants introduction the internet? 2) How often they access the internet? 3) How numerous hours they spend time online? 4) What compo sitors case of web station they usually visit part online? 5) Do online fall their performances in studies?And the close to key thing is, by conducting this explore; it reveals the humankind of online doings among PMC school-age childs. At the early of the search, we came up with collar hypotheses which might be relate to the result of the inquiry: Hypothesis 1: a) The bulk of PMC students spend 3-5 hours online per hebdomad. Hypothesis 2: b) The main online goal of PMC students is to keep in touch with their family and friends. Hypothesis 3: c) mass of the students online and orbit at the very(prenominal) time. (iii) affirmation OF PROBLEM at that place are some hassles we dis make uped that leads to this ken.We came up with three weighty questions that it might be connect to the results of this research: 1. Does friendly networking website (e. g: Facebook, Twitter, Blog, etc. ) distinguish the students in their studies? * With the existence of electronic c ommunication, it seems corresponding the students have become addicted to these wile of public domain such as Facebook and Twitter. Some of them spend much than 3 hours online per day. Thus, does this online behavior take their performances in studies? 2. How do the students fake their study time with their online conduct? If students prefer to go study and online at the same time, will they be equal to c formerlyntrate on their studies? This is the problem as we want to identify does this type of online demeanour affect the concentration of the students? 3. Can they cash in ones chips their lives without any internet connector? * cyberspace is one of the outstanding things consumeed in life, especially for students. It sustains a lot as students exact it in order to give nonice up all the assignments and get pull ahead information on certain topics. Students withal surf the internet to get the latest news on current issues.How would the students culture their a ssignments if on that point is no internet community in the college? (i) RESPONDENTS We randomly selected 50 students of PMC which catch up with 3% of the total students. We believed that majority of the students use internet in their daily lives for reproduction maps. However, as we all know, in a new era world, students overly need some entertainment to cheer up their lives an there is the set of internet as students excessively toilette use it to find some entertainment in order to release stress. (ii) INSTRUMENTSIn completing this research, we use respective(a) kind of method to gather info obtained: a) Questionnaire * 10 questions about internet utilization among PMC students were being asked and the questionnaire was distributed to 50 students of PMC. They were asked to answer the heap in order to have a go at it this research and gain the data. The 50 students were randomly selected among all the total students and they were from different module of courses. b) Internet search * We also make comparison among the internet usage among PMC students and survey do by other external researcher.We represent out that the usage of internet among students was high especially in purpose of procreation such as to do research projects and presentation. However, they also used the internet to keep in contact with family and friends as the existence of social networking site benefactors a lot in connecting people all over the world. c) Book, newspaper and magazines * Besides, we also looked for points in magazines and newspaper about the latest news of internet usage among college students. How the internet plays its role in students’ lives and how the institution itself provide the nternet connection for the students. (iii) investigate PROCEDURE a) Phase genius At the early stage of this research, we made a questionnaire to be distributed to the students. The questionnaire was check into by our English lecturer, Mr. Asokan before being photocopied. The questionnaire which has been checked and approved then be photocopied and distributed to 50 selected students. b) Phase Two The distribution of the questionnaire was made during our recess time. We distributed the questionnaire to the students which came from different modules (Life Science, Physics and Accounting. Basically, the different module of students does non really affect our results of finding as we put our aim on their PSPM results which might be related to their online behaviour. c) Phase Three We took almost 5 days to distribute the questionnaire and collect the data. every one of group members was very dictated in conducting this research. The data collected was kept for further analysis. We gathered during hebdomadend and made further discussion about the findings. psychoanalysis OF DATA & DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS We engraft out that 5% of the students access the internet through their mobile phone.We predicted that their mobile phone have the ability to access the internet through the prepaid internet service. 15% of the students favourite(a) to online at the cyber cafe which is most of the students were female students as the cyber cafe lonesome(prenominal) located at female students’ block. Besides, other 37% of the students have their own wideband to access the internet. The take a breather of 43% students used the Wi-fi provided by the college and also through cafe. We cornerstone end that students can access the internet through several of ways at anywhere and anytime. They don’t need to be worry as the internet connection is always being available.The students also can surf the internet for umpteen purposes and the internet connection provided is unlimited unpack if they access through PMC Wi-fi as the horde blocked several websites containing improper confine for the students. Based on the pie chart above, we can see that majority of the students access the internet several times a hebdomad which represent 43% of the students. Another 32% of the students access the internet everyday, 13% online once a week, 10% online several times a day and finally 2% of the students online rarely which is once a month or little.The findings proved that every student have different type of online behaviour. The students who online once in a month or less probably think that internet does not really affect their lives. mend for the students who access the internet once a week may be online for historic purpose only. As for the rest, they often access the internet may be to modify themselves with latest issues or many other reasons. From the data obtained, 54% of the students played out time 3-5 hours online per week. Whereas 34% online to a greater extent than 5 hours per week while another 12% fagged 1-2 hours online per week.Spent 3-5 hours online per week is the average time for the PMC students to access the internet. They finished up their assignments, keep in touch with fam ily and do other things online inwardly 3-5 hours per week. They did not waste their time do something useless while online as 3-5 hours per week is a short period to access the internet. They managed to make use of the internet wisely. The main purpose of PMC students to go online is to contact their family and friends which cover 31% of the students. Basically, they might keep in contact through e-mails or film call with many types of communicating website such as Yahoo! nd Skype. 28% of the students preferred to surf the social networking site such as Facebook, Twitter and many other. They also were able to keep in touch through those social networking site. 14% of the students access the internet to play games and most of them were male students. Hence, another 11% online with the purpose of finishing the assignments or maybe get update about the latest education topic through PMC portal. There were also some students who spent their time online to discover online newspaper ( 3%), downloading music or videos (6%), and others (7%).From the findings, we found out that there was correlation surrounded by students’ online behaviour with their studies performance. 46% of PMC students spent less than 10 hours on studies per week. This may receivable to the activity involved by the students itself. As class was finished in the late evening, students need more time to rest in order to prepare for the tomorrow class. At night, they had to finish their tutorials and made some revision for next topic. We can conclude that half of the PMC students spent more than 10 hours on studies per week. 9% spent more than 15 hours whereas another 25% spent time on studies amidst 10-15 hours. disparate students have different ability to make revision. Some can study for more than 3 hours continuously per day while some cannot. It depends on the ability of the students itself. From the data collected, it was proven that most of the students did not preferred to study and go online at the same time. They felt better if go study and online separately. Meaning, they might think that online while perusing was such a waste of time, as students will be more snap to the internet compare to the books.This type of online behaviour was not really good for students as it might affect student’s performance in studies. Thus, our third theory which was the majority of the students online and study at the same time should be rejected as it was totally different from the result obtained. However, there were 39% of PMC students who still preferred to go study and online at the same time. It was how the student itself managed their study time and online time and in returns, there should be no problem with their studies performance.The final finding of this research was the PSPM 1 of PMC students. As we believed there was correlation between internet usage among PMC students and their studies performance, we noticed that 53% of the students achieved point er of 3. 00-3. 99 in their PSPM 1. There was also 24% of the students’ success by achieved pointer of 4. From the above pie chart, it showed that the students were able to manage their time in studies and access the internet. As majority of them succeed by acquire pointer of 3 and above. It proved that it depends on the student itself on how to manage their time.As the 16% of the student who got pointer of 2-2. 99 and 4% got 1. 99 or less, it might not because of the internet. They should work harder and lessen the internet usage if it was really affect their studies performance. CORRELATION amid ONLINE BEHAVIOUR AND STUDIES PERFORMANCE (i) CONCLUSIONS This study was think to clarify the use of the Internet and its do on studies performances of PMC students. Thorough investigation of three primary questions revealed there is correlation between the amount of time spent on the Internet and their studies performances.Additionally, the purposes of access the internet among P MC students showed that majority of the students online in order to keep in contact with family and friends and also to surf the social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Blog and many more. One finding of note was that the cognition of the students about their studies performance was still not significantly influenced by Internet use. The look implication of this study is that the Internet, equivalent so many other aspects of daily life, is simply a tool that individuals access and use in ways that they can choose. ii) RECOMMENDATIONS passim this research, we found out that internet was not the main factor that affect student’s performance. Students should put more movement in order to achieve pure results in examination. Determination is very important as a saying goes â€Å"when there’s a will, there’s a way”. This research teaches us a lot from the perspective of group work and responsibility. Our hope is, future research can be carri ed in all the matriculation colleges in the country so that we can compare how internet affect student’s performances in studies do. REFERENCES Websites: 1. http://www. endeley. com/research/internet-use-among-female-and-male-college-s tudents/ 2. http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Internet 3. http://www. jsu. edu/dept/geography/mhill/research/resrept. hypertext mark-up language 4. http://www. adelaide. edu. au/writingcentre/learning_guides/learningGuide_writingAResearchReport. pdf ACKNOWLEDGMENT We would like to acknowledge and extend my heartfelt gratitude to every person who has made the completion of this project research. Without the help from them, we won’t be able to finish this research successfully. First of all, we would like thank our English Lecturer, Mr.Asokan, for his vital boost and support. Thank you for self-aggrandising us the meet to conduct this experiment as we learnt a lot throughout this research. Thank you also for helping us and guide us on how to make a complete and good report. Besides, thank you to all the practicum members for giving us support and helping us in finding information. We discuss and share any important information that could help in comleting this project. Last but not least, thank to God, who made all things possible. That’s all. Thank you TABLE OF CONTENT TitlePage 1. 0 INTRODUCTION 1. 1 Background tuition . 2 Objectives 1. 3 Statement of occupation 2. 0 METHODOLOGY 2. 1 vitrine/Respondents 2. 2 Instruments 2. 3 Research number 3. 0 FINDINGS & DISCUSSION 4. 0 CONCLUSIONS & RECOMMENDATIONS 5. 0 REFERENCES & APPENDICES RESEARCH ON INTERNET USAGE AMONG PENANG matriculation COLLEGE (PMC) STUDENTS GROUP MEMBERS: * MUHAMMAD ALIFF HAIQAL BIN MUHAMMAD NASIR (MS1113508572) * MUHAMMAD AZREE IZUDDIN BIN AZMAN (MS1113508640) * SHARIFAH NURFADHLIN AFIFAH BINTI SYED AZHAR (MS1113510255) * SITI HAJAR BINTI HASSAN (MS1113510322) PRACTICUM: H1P2 reader’S NAME: MR. ASOKAN\r\n'