أثر استخدام الطلاب لموقع الفيسبوك على معارفهم في مجال تدوير المخلفات المنزلية (دراسة تطبيقية على طلاب كلية الزراعة بجامعة كفرالشيخ)

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to identify the impact of the students' using of the Facebook site on their knowledge in the field of household waste recycling (an applied study by the students of the Faculty of Agriculture at Kafr El Sheikh University). The research was done of all on the fourth level students, A simple random sample of 25% (85 students) was chosen. A group was created on the social network (Facebook) named "the household waste recycling group", which included students randomly selected for this research. They were informed about the idea of this group, obtained their approval to join it and procedures required of them. And then a before measurement of their knowledge about ideas ten for the recycling of household waste, and then sent messages related to these ideas to the group on Facebook site, a one message every four days in various forms. The questionnaire was used as a tool to obtaining of the data for this research. A two questionnaire for the before and after measurement form. Several statistical methods were used to analyze the data. The main findings of this paper could be summarized as follows: The percentage of respondents who heard the ten new ideas was 23.18%, while the percentage of respondents who did not hear about these ideas was 76.82%. Only about 6% of the respondents had a high degree of knowledge of the ideas of household waste recycling in the before measurement, while this percentage in the after measurement was about 65%. About 94% of the respondents were support the idea of using the social network (Facebook) in the extension work, while 6% of them were opposed to this idea.