Social media and academic outcomes. Project topics with scope.
These topics connect a defined digital-media practice with a student learning, study-management or academic-information question.
What makes these topics distinct?
Time spent on a platform, study-group participation, information credibility and academic achievement are different measures. Self-reported routines should not be described as measured grades or causal effects.
This Educational Foundations final year project examines student participation in course-related social-network groups and perceived course belonging through adult undergraduates in courses where students choose whether to use an online study group, with a defined comparison that can be adjusted to available access and supervisor guidance.
This Educational Management final year project examines course-level use of platform discussion or peer-support features alongside de-identified assignment-submission patterns through one course with instructor permission and access to aggregated, de-identified platform summaries, with a defined comparison that can be adjusted to available access and supervisor guidance.
This Educational Technology final year project examines peer academic questions, replies and help-seeking patterns in a course messaging group through a small opt-in adult-student group whose members consent to a bounded, de-identified message sample, with a defined comparison that can be adjusted to available access and supervisor guidance.
This English Education final year project examines participation in online reading communities and voluntary reading routines among adult undergraduates through adult students who self-identify as readers, whether or not they join a social-media reading community, with a defined comparison that can be adjusted to available access and supervisor guidance.
This Mass Communication final year project examines the relationship between short-video viewing routines and student-reported study-time management through consenting adult students who use or do not use short-video platforms, with a defined comparison that can be adjusted to available access and supervisor guidance.
This Psychology final year project examines the association between late-night social-media checking and next-day class-preparation routines through adult students who can report on recent nights before scheduled classes, with a defined comparison that can be adjusted to available access and supervisor guidance.
These are proposed studies. Choose the question that fits evidence you can access, check the requirements with your department and supervisor, then adapt the scope to your setting.
