Introduction of Project Profile
In this modern era, mobile devices are one of the technology products owned by many people. This is because, in this digital information blooming era, youngsters tend to use their mobile devices like smartphones and computers to obtain the latest information and spend their leisure time. Therefore, we decided to choose "Effect of mobile application on academic performance among students" as the topic of project 1 for the Probability and Statistical Data Analysis (PSDA) subject. The purposes of conducting this project are to study the relationship between time using the mobile application and academic performance. Besides that, the project also studies the relationship preference of study material and academic performance. The method that we used to collect the primary data is through an online survey which is Google Form. Setting Questions related to the topic and respondent's personal information was asked in the Google Form and this survey form was distributed to university students via social media such as WhatsApp. After we have collected the data, the collected data was extracted to the Excel file format (.xlsx) and R programming was used to do further data analysis by outputting graphical presentations using R studio. By conducting this project, we believe that we can know better about the effect of mobile application on academic performance among students.
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Reflection of Group Project 1
I appreciate I can do this group project because through doing this project not only improve our knowledge also improve our team working skill and data analysis skill. By using the R language, we can do data analysis more effectively. Look through the process of doing this project, from setting title until the whole report is done, which are needed the cooperation of all team members. From this project, to reach our objective, we cooperate. To get more accurate data, we need to get more respondents from the survey, but this is the weakness of our project which is due to the time limit we only can get 80 respondents in our survey. Hence, this is a good opportunity to let us know that a good data analysis needs huge data to support our project conclusion. I am the team leader for this group project. Hence, I need to separate the project’s job well to produce the best thing in our group. After doing this project, our aspects of ability can be greatly improved for some fields. From a team view, I have improved the team working skills, team leadership skills, time management skill and so on. From a personal view, I have improved mainly R coding skill which I have learned myself by searching online and the PDF file provides by the lecturer. In conclusion, I hope that those skills can be used in the future for my work, my family, my country even though the world.
Conclusion of Project Profile
By completing the data analysis, we also found out that most of the male students prefer more mobile games than social media app. Besides that, we also found out that senior students which are Year 3 and Year 4 students more prefer softcopy than hardcopy. This situation has shown that technological era brings benefit to students if we know how to use technology product wisely. After conducting the survey, we also found out that most of the students agree that mobile entertainment will distract their concentration of study. By the way, in the statement ”Mobile entertainment will affect academic performance.”, most of the students have no opinion about this. Although most of the respondents have agreed that they will be distracted by mobile entertainment when they are studying. In conclusion, the mobile application will affect the academic performance of an individual, by the way, most of the results are depends on an individual’s time managing skill.