Preliminary insights into cyberslacking impact on graduate students academic performance: A case study of a business school in Ghana

The main objective of the study was to examine the impact of cyberslacking on graduate students’ academic performance at a Business School in Ghana. The study was descriptive and was purely quantitative. The target population of this study comprised all graduate students at the School. Out of the entire population, three hundred (300) students were sampled for the study through convenience sampling. Questionnaires were used as the data collection tool. Findings from the analysis indicate that Cyberslacking correlates with students’ academic performance. Students who are addicted to cyberslacking have difficulties in paying attention in class in comparison to those who do not cyberslack. The study, therefore, concludes that though cyberslacking has a negative effect on the attention of graduate students in the lecture room, it could not find a significant relationship between cyberslacking and academic performance. It is however recommended that instructors should integrate technology procedures in their curricula, explain their motivations, and enforce them. Also, the management of universities should ensure graduate students are mindful of their multitasking limits and cyberslacking’s negative effect on learning. Although cyberslacking negatively influences attention and even student learning, several college students underrate this concern because they overrate their capacity to multitask.