Effect of Mobile Phone Usage in Academic Performance of the Girls Student in Secondary School in Zanzibar: A Case of Mjini District.

The purpose of this study was to “Assess on effect of mobile phone usage in academic performance of the girl’s student in secondary school in Zanzibar: a case of Mjini district”. The study specifically examined how uses of mobile phone usage can effect of girls’ students in their academic performance at Benbella Girls Secondary School. The study involved sample size of 230 respondents, distribution of respondents were 200 students, 20 Teachers, 10Education officers, who were selected random sampling. Data for this study was interview and questionnaire methods by purposeful sampling and stratified random sampling. The research design was employed with quantitative and qualitative methods of data analysis were used. The findings revealed that Students are using mobile phone usage in the process of learning in searching materials, also revealed that developing of mobile learning apps it has affected education of the girls positively, the mobile phone usage gives easy access to information and learning materials. Furthermore, The coefficient of determination R2 is 0.743; this shows that approximately 74.3% of the performance of the students is explained by the year strong or good results experience of the school. The study concluded that the effect of mobile to the girl’s students on performance of secondary school has positive and negative due to environment, programs installed and agent service operators among the factors which contribute to learning process. The study recommended that policy reform is needed for using mobile phones by integrating in teaching and learning as it is the case for other ICT devices. Keywords: Academic Performance, Mobile Phone, ICT, Secondary School