abstract

Online learning Platform have quietly become a part of daily school life even in smaller districts away from the municipal, urban & rural centres where most educational research on learning takes place. The study aimed to investigate the pattern of usage of online learning resources by the higher secondary students of South Tripura and its associated relationship with students' academic success. Using a descriptive survey design, data were collected from 100 Student’s of Classes XI & XII drawn from 9government schools in the district through a structured questionnaire. The instrument measured online learning engagement, social media engagement & while academic Success was taken from student’s ' most recent examination percentage. For the completion of this study, Data were collected using a standardized questionnaire titled test for collecting the online learning engagement, developed by Kavita Verma & Rekha jivnani “Online Study Scale”. Academic Success data of the school student are collected from their last Examination total marks.

The findings showed that the two discussed variables have no noticeable impact on the student’s academic Success. The student’s academic achievements have no significant relationship with online learning. The study mentions that those two independent variables have shown weak correlation with student’s academicals success. Based on the academic study of the student’s it states that the weak results explain the correlation as negligible in the context of South Tripura government schools.

In conclusion, the study suggests that neither the online learning have any statistical impact on neither the academic Success nor the engagement of variety of learning platform. Both the variables are independent in the case of higher secondary school students. This study mainly aims to investigates the intensity & usage rates of using the preferences of online learning to analyse is there any link of digital learning & social networking sites with the student’s academics or not in the prospective of south Tripura district.