Abstract

Google  Scholar  is  an  internet-based  search  engine  designed  to  locate scholarly information,  including peer-reviewed articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts,  and court  opinions from  academic publishers,  professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other Web sites. This review looks at  the strengths and weaknesses of this search engine to assist librarians in making informed decisions about the use of this tool.

Keywords: google, student, learning, educational, development.

1.6 THE SCOPE OF THE STUDY

The study will be carried out in the University of Buea, based on the effects of Google on the performance of students. It is limited to JMC students and some other departments in the University of Buea.

1.7 Significance of the work

This study will be relevant to the following stakeholders

This study will be a stepping stone to creating awareness on the important and relevance of Google in student’s educational development. Since the study will be limited to buea in general, the researcher intends to educate the population who shall respond to these questionnaires on the importance of Google in student’s educational development.

To the Research Community

• To the body of knowledge, this piece of work will be a great contribution to the body of knowledge, and to those carrying out research in this field of study, this piece of work might serve as a spring board for more investigation.
• Bases of literature review, this piece of work might serve as a source for consultations for reviewing in the area of Google and students education and finally this piece will help the researcher as a requirement for an award of BSC Degree in Journalism and mass communication and if accepted by the academia will form the basis for further research
• To the scholars especially JMC students, Jmc students can now consult this work as a reference when talking about advertisement and product promotion.
  • DEFINITION OF KEY TERMS

Google Scholar

This is a free learning platform dedicated to schools. Its goal is to simplify the creation and distribution of courses and exercises digitally. The platform was presented as an additional feature of Google Apps following a publication, the 12 august, 2014. (Yeskel, Zach, 2014). 

1.8 Synopsis of the work

Our work is divided into five chapters. Firstly, chapter one, which comprises the introduction, background of the study, the statement of the problem, the aim of the study, its objectives, the research questions, the hypotheses, the scope of the study, its significance, and structure of the study.

Secondly, chapter two, entitled review of literature, is made up of varieties of some works which were done and the definition of pronunciation as a whole.

 Thirdly, chapter three, which is the methodology, deals with the research design, the description of the sample size, instrument for data collection, data procedure.

Fourthly chapter four, entitled presentation of data analysis and discussion, deals with the presentation of findings and results, and verifies the veracity of the hypothesis.

Finally, we have chapter five which comprises conclusion, recommendation, and some suggestion