EVALUATION OF COMPUTER-BASED TECHNOLOGY AND ITS RELEVANCE TO STUDENT’S PERFORMANCE

Abstract

Computer-based technology and digitalization has implied many aspects of life, community and industry, yet there is small understanding of how it can be used to improve and promote student’s engagement. An idea receiving huge focus in higher education because it is accompanied with a number of positive academic outcomes. The purpose of this research study is to present a review of the literature from the past 6 years related to how digitalization and web- services software, Wikipedia, networking sites, and online digital games influence student’s engagement to classroom setting. The research study began the findings with a practical overview of student’s engagement and its definitions and indicators towards learning that revealed various kinds of engagement such as behavioral, emotional, and cognitive that informed how we classified literatures. The findings suggest that digitalized online games provide the most influence across different types of student’s engagement. Next to it is website services engagement and Facebook use. The findings on Wikipedia, and Twitter are a little decisive and relevantly limited in quantity in terms of studies conducted within the past 6 years. The overall findings provide initial support that computer-based technology influences student’s engagement. However, additional study is needed to confirm and build on these findings. It is concluded that this writing by providing a list of recommendations for practice, with the purpose of increasing understanding of how digitalization and computer-based technology may be relevantly implemented in order to achieve the specific and ultimate purpose to increase students perfomance.