A STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF INTERNET USAGE ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE STUDENTS
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2021-10-29
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Education systems have greatly changed with the emergence of Internet. It has a significant impact
on how students learn things and how educational institutes operate. But its impact can also be
contradicting. Internet addiction can slowly poison the minds of our youths and stand in the way
of pursuing their goals. Proper analysis of the effects this technology has on today’s youth can help
determine the factors that allow a student to succeed academically and those that do not. Also,
predicting the academic performance beforehand can help determine the changes that must be
incorporated to improve the educational system. So, this research attempts to accurately analyze
the effects of internet usage on student’s academic progress and also predict the class performance
of the students by using different machine learning algorithms. About 700 student’s data were
collected for this study from an offline survey taken from different schools, colleges and
universities, all situated in Noakhali district. These data will be analyzed with the help of statistical
evaluation methods and machine learning algorithms such as Logistic Regression, Decision Trees,
Random Forests and Naive Bayes Classifier. The results from these models will be analyzed using
different performance metrics to determine the factors that contribute the most in their academic
activities.