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Determinants of Viewing Kana Television Program on Students' Academic Performance in Jigjiga Town Preparatory School

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Globalization gave rise to television, a significant source of instructional enrichment. It offers more comprehensive, advanced, and varied knowledge and instruction. Television has received a lot of flak for having a detrimental effect on secondary school pupils' academic achievement. Watching television could start to compete with studying time and eventually lead to poorer academic achievement. In this study, our aim was to identify the determinants of viewing Kana television programs on academic performance. To meet the objective, of the 1658 students, 138 were selected as a sample by using stratified random sampling. We gathered information from the sample of students by using primary and secondary data collection methods. Multiple linear regressions were used for data analysis, considering academic performance (the average mark after watching Kana TV) as the response variable. According to the descriptive statistic, 46.4% of students are males, and the remaining 53.6% are females because the total population of females is higher than males. 51.4% of students live in urban areas, and the remaining 48.6% live in rural area. 60.9% of students have access of satellite television and 39.1% of students have no access to satellite television. The major significant factors that affect the academic performance of students are age, religion, income, parent’s follow-up (father’s follow-up), access to satellite television, addiction to Kana television programs, and time spent.

Published in American Journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics (Volume 13, Issue 2)
DOI 10.11648/j.ajtas.20241302.12
Page(s) 39-45
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Keywords

Academic Performance of Students, Kana Television, Multiple Linear Regressions

1. Introduction
Globalization gave rise to television, a vital source of educational enrichment .
The media industry has seen significant technical growth in the twenty-first century. All mass media platforms, including television, are essential and unavoidable components that provide people with news, entertainment, and education. These days, one can watch television on the web, on a cell phone, or with a little pocket TV. Because of their seemingly unrestricted access to the many types of materials, young children's usage of it in particular has raised discussions and worries among many scholars, since it may have an impact on their learning, behavior, growth, and health .
It offers more comprehensive, advanced, and varied knowledge and instruction. It provides amusement as well. This contributed to the nation's film industry's boom. Consequently, there was a noticeable surge in the number of moviegoers as the motion picture industry showed indications of becoming a major source of entertainment. It is generally acknowledged that, among other information sources, television has emerged as the source of the most widely disseminated pictures and messages in history. Because of this, students consume more media overall, with watching television, movies, or videos accounting for more than half of this time . As a result, television was seen as a distraction during the teaching and learning process, and secondary school pupils now regularly share this perception .
Mass media includes publications including newspapers, periodicals, books, radio, television, movies, and other forms of communication that reach a large audience without requiring a personal connection between the sender and the recipient. Preschoolers who watch television perform worse academically and have a harder time picking up new languages .
Parents have reportedly expressed concern about their children's academic performance due to their withdrawal from academic pursuits, specifically not doing their homework, not studying, and receiving subpar exam results .
Actually, there has been a lot of criticism directed at television for its detrimental effects on secondary school students' academic performance. Watching television may start to compete with studying time and ultimately lead to worse academic achievement .
Too much time spending on television has adverse effects on School performance .
Due to viewers' reliance on foreign-based satellite television programming, the availability of satellite television in Ethiopia may have negatively impacted adolescent viewers' social interactions . Schiller affirms that "watching foreign television can change one's values, and importing programs is importing lifestyles" .
Through exposure to satellite television, the research intends to define the time that youth allocate toward viewing satellite television, especially Kana programs. It is an Ethiopian general entertainment, free-to-air, satellite television channel that brining international standard programming to Ethiopia .
2. Data and Methodology

2.1. Data

Primary as well as secondary gathering methods were used to get the data for this investigation. Gathering initial data is the procedure by which we obtain original data from original sources using a questionnaire (a self-report tool designed to collect data about variables). Additionally, we use a secondary data gathering approach to establish the sample size by obtaining data from the register.
Sampling Design
Sampling Technique is a method of selecting sample from an entire population. For this study, we have used a stratified random sampling method. Since the nature of our target population forced us to use it in order to increase the prevalence of findings, thus, we used the classes as strata .

2.2. Methodology

In this study, the variable academic performance (average mark after watching Kana TV) is a continuous variable. When the response variable is continuous, it is appropriate to use multiple linear regression models to describe the relationship between the outcome variable and a set of predictor variables.

2.2.1. Multiple Linear Regression Analysis

Multiple regressions are a type of regression in which we have one dependent and more than two predictor variables. This model is used to study relationships among variables, and the model is given by:
Yi 01x1i2x2i+…..+βkxki + εi (1)
Where: β0=intercept
β1, β2…… βk is the coefficient of x1, x2, x3……xk, respectively.
Yi=response variable .
Assumptions of Multiple Linear Regression Analysis
The assumption of multiple linear regression analysis is as follows: the response variable must be continuous.
There is a linear relationship between independent and dependent variables.
With an average of zero and constant variance, the error term has a normal distribution.
There is not a perfect linear correlation between the explanatory factors.
There is no relationship between the incorrect terms .

2.2.2. Model Diagnostics (Adequacy)

1. Assessing Error Terms' Normality
The normally distributed assumption is verified using the normal probability plot. This indicates that the standard deviation is one and that the error terms have a normal distribution with an average of zero.
2. Standardized Linearity Checking
The linear probability that they provide for the predictor variables is linearly related to the dependent variable, as demonstrated by the scatter plot of the dependent variables against the standardized predicted variable, which is used to verify the linearity assumption of the MLR model.
3. Assessing Homoscedasticity
The variance of the error is constant. Residuals cannot vary for lower or higher values of X (i.e., fitted values of Y since Y=X ). a Scatter plot of the standardized residual against the standardized predictor is used to check the dependency of the standardize residual on repressors.
4. Multicollinearity
VIF used to check multicollinearity. It is the relationship between regressors. Its diagnosis is VIF, where VIF (Bj) = 1/ (1-R2k), R2k is the coefficient of determination of the auxiliary regression. If VIF (Bj) = , 10], there is no multicollinearity, but VIF (Bj) out of the range indicates problem with it .
3. Results and Discussion

3.1. Descriptive Statistics

Table 1 show that the average time spent by respondents watching Kana television programs was 1.27 hours or one hour and 27 minutes per day. The average marks of students before starting the kana TV program and after starting the Kana TV program was 77.133 and 74.41, with a standard deviation of 8.7893 and 9.422 respectively. The minimum and maximum ages of students in this school were 14 and 21 respectively. The minimum and maximum time spent on Kana television were 1 and 4 hours respectively.
Table 1. Descriptive statistics for continuous variables.

Statistics

age

time spent+

Mark

Before*

After**

Mean

16.67

1.27

77.133

74.41

Std. Deviation

1.457

.986

8.7893

9.422

Minimum

14

1

58.0

45

Maximum

21

4

97.7

93.4

+ Time spent on Kana Television
`` Mark of students after Kana TV program starts
Table 2. Descriptive statistics for categorical variables.

Variables

Frequency

Percent (%)

Sex

Male

64

46.4

Female

74

53.6

Religion

Muslim

33

23.9

Orthodox

73

52.9

Catholic

21

15.2

Protestant

11

8.0

Father

Occupation

Merchant

49

35.5

Government

39

28.3

Farmer

42

30.4

Daily labor

6

4.3

Other

2

1.4

Mother

Occupation

Merchant

43

31.2

Government

17

12.3

House wife

78

56.5

Monthly Income

<=1000

47

34.1

1000_2500

57

41.3

>=2600

34

24.6

Father follow up

Yes

57

41.3

No

81

58.7

Mother follow up

Yes

48

34.8

No

90

65.2

Residence

Urban

71

51.4

Rural

67

48.6

Grade

9th

62

44.9

10th

51

37.0

11th

10

7.2

12th

15

10.9

Satellite television access

Yes

84

60.9

No

54

39.1

Table 2 shows that 46.4% of students are males and the remaining 53.6% are females because the total population of females is higher than that of males. 23.9% of students follow the Muslim religion, 52.9% are orthodox, 15.2% are Catholic, and the remaining 8.0% of the students follow the Protestant religion. 34.1% of the students families have less than or equal to 1000 total family monthly income, 41.3% have between 1100 and 2500 total monthly income, and 24.6% of students have greater than or equal to 2600 total monthly income. 51.4% of students live in urban areas, and the remaining 48.6% live in rural areas. Table 2 revealed that 44.9% of students are in grade 9th, 37.0% are in grade 10th, 7.2% are in grade 11th, and the remaining 10.9 percent of students are in grade 12th. 60.9% of students have access to satellite television, and 39.1% of students have no access to satellite television. 53.6% of students are addicted to Kana television programs, and 46.4 percent are not addicted to television programs.

3.2. Multiple Linear Regressions Analysis

Table 3. Model summary.

Model

R

R Square

Adjusted R2

Std. Error of the Estimate

1

.934a

.872

.834

3.787

Table 4. The overall test of the model (ANOVA).

ANOVAb

Model

Sum of Square

Degree of freedom

Mean Square

F

Sig.

1

Regression

7977.63

24

332.40

23.17

.00a

Residual

1175.97

82

14.34

Total

9153.60

106

The model summary from table 3 shows that R2 = 0.872, which indicates that 87.2% of the variation (change) in the response variable (the average mark after starting the Kana TV program) is explained by the explanatory variables, while 12.8% of the outcome variable is influenced by the other explanatory variables that are not included in the study. Therefore, the model fits the data well.
Over all, hypothesis testing for coefficients HO: βi = βj = 0 VS H1: Independent variables have at least one coefficient that deviates from zero. Interpretation: As we know from the ANOVA table, the overall test of the model, value = 0.000, is less than p value of 0.05. Therefore, reject HO, so the model is significant. This is an indication of the goodness of the model. It can be said that the model fit the model well.
Table 5. Model of multiple linear regression coefficients.

Model

Unstandardized Coefficients

Standardized Coefficients

T

Sig.

B

Std. Error

Beta

1

(Constant)

23.660

11.792

2.006

.048

sex of respondents

.437

.808

.023

.541

.590

age of respondents

-1.309

.514

-.206

-2.547

.013

Muslim

.265

1.005

.012

.264

.793

Catholic

-.510

1.120

-.021

-.455

.650

Protestant

-3.375

1.463

-.101

-2.307

.024

Merchant (Father)

-5.398

3.034

-.286

-1.779

.079

government employed (Father)

-.203

.932

-.011

-.218

.828

Farmer (Father)

-4.660

3.095

-.207

-1.506

.136

daily labor (Father)

-6.038

3.853

-.124

-1.567

.121

Merchant (Mother)

.518

.879

.026

.589

.557

government employed (Mother)

-2.349

1.316

-.088

-1.785

.078

less than or equal to 1000

2.312

1.045

.119

2.212

.030

between 1100 and 2500

.386

.973

.020

.397

.693

respondents father follow-up

-6.733

3.213

-.342

-2.096

.039

respondents mother follow-up

-1.144

.875

-.059

-1.307

.195

residence of respondents

-1.098

.959

-.059

-1.145

.255

grade nine

-3.451

2.641

-.185

-1.307

.195

grade ten

-.710

2.025

-.037

-.351

.727

grade eleven

1.733

2.118

.052

.818

.416

access of satellite television for respondents

2.178

.857

.117

2.541

.013

addiction of respondents on kana program

2.810

1.096

.150

2.564

.012

time spent on kana television for respondents

-1.164

.420

-.124

-2.771

.007

peer pressure of individuals on respondents

2.183

1.158

.111

1.884

.063

From the above SPSS output table 5, it shows that sex, parents occupation, parent follow-up (mothers follow-up), residence, grade level, and peer pressure were not significant, because all p-values were higher than the significance level (α= 0.05), but age, religion, income, parents follow-up (fathers follow-up), access to satellite television, addiction to Kana television programs, and time spent were significant since all p-values were less than the level of significance (α=0.05).
ŷ02X1+ β3D25D4+β6D519D8+ β10D9 + β11X2
ŷ=23.660-1.309X1-3.375D2 +2.312D4-6.733D51+2.178D8+2.810D9-1.164 X21+ε
4. Conclusion and Recommendation
The results of the data analysis show that the most important factors impact the academic performance of students. These factors are age, religion, income, parent follow-up (fathers follow-up), access to satellite television, addiction of individuals to Kana television programs, and time spent, but sex, parent occupation, parent follow-up (mothers follow-up), residence, grade level, and peer pressure are insignificant with academic performance.
The students who spent their time on Kana television programs are not satisfied with their average marks, and they are addicted to Kana. Their daily interest in satellite television access increased rather than studying their course because the majority of respondents had satellite television access with Kana and had knowledge of viewing Kana television programs. Thus, their average marks were affected, and their average marks decreased after they had been watching Kana television programs. This study suggests that in order to decrease the amount of time kids spend watching television; teachers must give them enough homework to keep them occupied during downtime. Schools ought to guide parents on how to monitor and look into their children's media consumption. Because movies are able to present events that look real and pertinent to every detail in a way that is suitable for teaching, the government must completely support this course.
Abbreviations
TV: Television
ANOVA: Analysis of variance
SPSS: Statistical Package for Social Science
Funding
The authors received no financial support for this study.
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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