• Rashmi Srivastava
• Anant Kumar Srivastava

- Social media is an ingrained part of today’s society. Students are using various social media such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, and many other sites at every moment of their life. Definitely, social media is affecting the learning abilities and academic achievement of students. Learning abilities are basically how students perceive and understand the concepts and how they are applying the concept in their real life. This research tries to examine the effect of social media on the learning ability of secondary school students. How the variables are correlated to each other? This research was conducted in Prayagraj on secondary school students. The research design was a descriptive survey. The sample size was 500 secondary school students coming from both rural and urban locales, out of which 226 were girls and 274 were boys. Stratified random sampling techniques were used. Tools used in this research were verbal intelligence constructed by Dr. R.K. Ojha and K. Choudhary. For social media usage researcher constructed the questionnaire on 5 points Likert scale and was standardized. The reliability of the tool was calculated through split-half techniques major findings of the study are- 1. There is a significant difference in the usage of social media between the boys and girls at the secondary school level. 2. There is a significant difference in the use of social media between the rural and urban students of secondary school level.3. There is a significant difference in the learning abilities between boys and girls of secondary school level.4. There is a significant difference in the learning abilities between the rural and urban students of secondary school level. There is a positive correlation between social media and the learning ability of secondary school students.

Social media, Learning ability, Secondary school students.

"To study the effect of social media on the learning ability of secondary school students.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 8, page no.c710-c728, August-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2208276.pdf

"To study the effect of social media on the learning ability of secondary school students.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 8, page no. ppc710-c728, August-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2208276.pdf