Social Media and the G.P.A
Hello and Hiii AGAIN, FRIENDS! Your favorite grad student here giving you communications update through the analysis of me, a graduate student! This week we'll be talking about *drum roll* RESEARCH METHODS!!! Yessss, although learning about qualitative and quantitative research methods seem like a snooze. I can promise none of that here. Research methods allow us to find and measure information, also known as data. These findings once evaluated lead us to the greater good of communication kind! So, shall we get started? We S-H-A-L-L! The research study I will be sharing is from 2015. It involves Saudi Arabian college students and the usage of social media on their GPAs. The study contained two parts, one involved quantitative research while the other component used qualitative research. Both studies took place between 20212 and 2014. Also, both studies produced results that showed social media usage did not change the GPAs of college students between the ages of 20-30. Researchers...