Internet uses and academic performence of rural and urban adolescents in coimbatore district
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2015
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Internet use increased rapidly in the first decade of the twenty-first century and it is keep growing day by day. Internet
usage is more frequent among urban adolescents than rural adolescents.So both urban and rural adolescent Internet users
have developmental differences in various skills. Hence a survey based study is made in Coimbatore district to identify
f yslopmental difference of over-all academic and class room performance among rural and urban adolescent Internet
ui4rs.Complete enumeration of a larger sample size of six hundred students with equal representation of rural and urban
adolescentage group of 14-17 years studying in class IX, X and XI standard were chosen randomly from four schools located
at Coimbatore district. It was found from the study that there were developmental differences of academic performance
among both rural and urban adolescent Internet users.