An investigation of cellphone use on the academic performance of Namibia school learners: A case study of the Caprivi Senior Secondary School and Kizito College in the Zambezi region
The study assessed the impact of cell phone use among Namibian school learners. The researcher used the mixed methods approach of qualitative and quantitative methods to collect and analyse data, integrate the findings and draw inferences to predict the impact of cell phone usage on the academic performance of the Namibian school learners: a case study of the Caprivi Senior Secondary School and Kizito College in the Zambezi region. Caprivi Senior Secondary School and Kizito College are senior secondary schools that offer Grade 8 to Grade 12 and most school learners are aged between 13 to 20 years old. Participants of the study were 188; these were selected using simple random sampling and convenience sampling. Out of the total of 188 respondents, 172 were school learners (118 from Caprivi Senior Secondary School and 54 from Kizito College), six teachers of which three were from Caprivi Senior Secondary School and three were from Kizito College and ten parents. The study used Self-administered Structured Questionnaires (SSQ) for learners; Focus Group Discussion (FGD) for teachers and interview guides with semi-structured questions were used to collect data from parents. The study established that 90 percent of respondents who participated successfully were school learners, while 4% of the participants were teachers from these sampled schools and 6% of the participants were parents of the school learners. The study further established that school learners, teachers and parents use cell phones and are connected to social media sites such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Google and YouTube.
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