Relationship of use of smartphone with academic performance of higher secondary students

martphone is a great invention. At present time, smartphone has become an integral and important part of every individual’s daily life. The purpose of the study is to find out the relationship between smartphone usage and academic performance of higher secondary students. Descriptive survey method was adopted for the present study. 200 higher secondary students were selected as sample from four schools by applying Purposive sampling technique. Data was collected by administering a structured questionnaire developed by Mukhdoomi et.al,. Data were analyzed by applying Mean, SD, Correlation and Independent Sample t-test with the help of SPSS. On the basis of analysis of data, it was found that there is no significant correlation between smartphone usage and academic performance of higher secondary students. Furthermore, result showed that there is no significant difference of smartphone usage among the students in relation to their gender and locality. The results of this study may help the administrators and policy makers to understand the effect of smartphone usage on students’ academic life and may also help them to encourage students to use smartphone towards educative use rather than non-educative use.