Critical Analysis of Students’ Mobile Phone Usage: A Comparison of Public and Private Secondary Schools in Pakistan

Abstract

The study was descriptive type in nature i.e. to compare the attitude and perception of public and private secondary school level students. To carry out the study a survey questionnaire was designed and three public and three private secondary level school students were randomly selected. The major objective of the study was to compare the attitude and perception of the public and private secondary school students about using the mobile phone in general and for educational purpose. To achieve the objective of the study a twenty item questionnaire was developed and validated. The data was personally collected by the researchers from the three hundred students one hundred from three public secondary school students as well as same quantity from the three private secondary school students. The major conclusions of the study were the public school students status of using internet, text messaging, MMS, camera, video recording, games, is better.

* Lecture, Department of Mass Communication AIOU Islamabad, Pakistan
** Vice Principal, Islamabad Model School for Boys G-9/1 Islamabad,
Pakistan
*** Principal, Islamabad Model College for Boys I-10/1 Islamabad,
Pakistan

than private school students but on the other hand the perception about the using of mobile phone for educational purposes of private school students was better than public school students.