Chapter I

Background of the Study

Social media is the collective of online communications channels

dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and

collaboration. Websites and applications dedicated to forums, micro blogging,

social networking, social bookmarking, social curation, and wikis, facebook,

instagram, youtube, google, etc. are among the different types of social

media.

This study looks at social media network participation and academic

performance in senior high students. This study aimed in identifying social

media and their usage among students, how students participate on social

media, time invested by students on social media, the effects on their

grammar and spelling as well as the effects of social media participation on

the student’s academic performance within the context of the social learning

and the use and gratification theories. To achieve the objectives of the

research, the study used a mixed method approach which involved the survey

of students in senior high students and interviews of heads of the senior high

students.

According to Bong Santisteban in facebook basing their grades on

social media engagement will only prompt them to roam around in social

media and asking everyone, even total strangers for likes and shares.

Santisteban also called the current generation as millennial beggars. This

issue has been the topic of the researchers, journalists and the students on

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today’s generation because if its basis strategy performance. One of the

important cause and outcome for this phenomenon is the effects of social

media on the academic performance of students are important matter in

assessing the students reaction in dealing with the problem.

According to his research, facebook is said to be the most popular

social media among students as reported by some researchers and it has

reached a one billion user base in October 2012. This social media blog there

are students spent time on a certain has a mean 24 minutes per visit. The

assume that students spent time on the social media visit is normally

distributed and that the standard deviation is 6 minutes.

Statement of the Problem

This research is to show the percentage and the advantage and

disadvantages of Social Media that Affect in their Academic Performance of

Tacloban Central Institute of Technical Studies Inc. (TCITSI) Senior High

School students for the school year 201-2019. This study seeks to answer the

following questions:

1. What are the advantage and disadvantages of Social Media that Affect in

their Academic Performance in Senior High?

2. What are the possible effects of social media on the academic

performance?

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Significance of the Study

The result of this study will be a great benefit to the teenagers,

teachers, parents, and community.

To the teenagers-The results of this study will provide the students with

knowledge on the impact of social media on their academic performance.

To the teachers-The findings of this study will serve as a guide to the

teachers on what to do if the students are involved in improper use of social

media and to be able help their students.

To the parents-This study will help parents in controlling the use of social

media.

To the community-The result of this study will serve as a tool for awareness

to people especially teenagers who are using social media.

Research Hypothesis

The researchers can study about the possible effect of involvement

early on social media among junior and senior high students of Leyte National

High School (LNHS). The researcher will know the effects of social media on

the academic performance.

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Scope of Limitation of the Study

This study focuses on the impact of social media among students to

the academic performances. This study limits its coverage to junior and senior

highs school students of Leyte National High School.

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Conceptual Framework

This study was anchored on the conceptual effect of using social media

to the academic performance of the students. To determine whether there is a

relationship between academic performance and management in studying

and time spent on social media.

 To accomplish

the study
Students
 Go to school

 Study hard
 Facebook

 Twitter

 Google

Social Media  YouTube

 Wikis

 Instagram

 Messenger
Social Media: It’s

Effect on the

Academic

Performance of

Students

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Definition of Terms:

The following terms were defined according to how it was used in this study.

EFFECT- refers to the outcome of one’s action or events, maybe good or bad.

Disadvantages- refers to the bad or unpleasant effect of a certain action.

Advantages- refers to the good effects or good consequences of a certain

action.

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 Chapter II

Review of Related Literature and Studies

The review of related literature is discussed in this chapter in order to

provide readers a better understanding of the background and information

about research studies on the effects of social media on the academic

performance.

Review of Related Literature

Ul Haq & Chand (2012) investigated the usage and popularity of

famous social media among the senior high students with special focus on the

gender based comparison and the impact of the selected social media on

their academic performance. The two researchers evaluate the pattern and

frequency of social media use among the senior high students while focusing

gender that majority of the users (61%) agree that this social media has

adverse effects on their academic performance. Further analysis reveals that

among these (61%), majority of the respondents were male.

In addition to adverse effects of social media on academic

performance, there was also an opinion that use of social media makes it hard

for them to perform the best on their career performance. However, the

researcher feels that the later opinion is not very clear and established and

needs further investigation. This research analysis to shows that using social

media especially in terms of using social media is equally popular among

male and female students of their school under study. The researcher

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evaluate also that majority of the users agree that these social media adverse

effect on their academic performance.

This study related in our study in the way of investigating about the

effects of social media on their academic achievements among students.

They are both undertaking through analyzing a random sample of

respondents.

Hamat, Emir, & Hassan (2012) studied the use of social media

platforms among undergraduate and post graduate students of Malaysian

institutes of higher education. This qualitative research collected data on 6358

student’s respondents through a self-administered questionnaire and

analyzed this data to make observation on the use of social media among

them. This study collects opinion of students about the impacts of social

media on their academic performance. One of the very significant findings of

the study is about the use of social media for the purpose of learning. Majority

of the respondents agree that they use of SNSs as informal learning tool and

that it helps them to connect their friends and peers to get help regarding their

studies. However, in case of interaction with teachers, an equal split of

opposite exists.

This study also supports the most common finding of majority of well-

structured studies that use of social media has no significantly negative

impact on the student’s academic performance. The further state that the

possibility of some other factors like social media addiction more time on

internet, chatting, cognitive absorption etc. linked with the use of internet of

specifically social media may cause poor academic performance.

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 The above literature reviews show that other students are using social

media for their learning, they use as a learning tool. It has a significant on our

study because the use of social media can affect the academic performance

in a positive and negative way. Social media addiction is the top negative

effect that may cause poor the academic performance of senior high students.

Negussie/Ketema (2014) further investigated if there is any impact of

using social media while accessing through different devices. Among a variety

of devices, it was found that the correlation between using social media on

mobile devices and student’s grades is highly negative as compared to using

social media on other devices. This adverse effect is explained by the fact that

using cellphones for social media activities may involve multitasking and all

students are not equally efficient in multitasking skills.

Review of Related Studies

The study suggests that students must be encouraged to use social

media for educational purposes instead of blocking theses platforms in the

educational premises. This study has a correlation in our study because they

both proving using social media have a big impact in the academic

achievement among students.

The purposed research model tests how to social media usage effects

performance of students with different personality traits. In additional the

research tries to justify the relationship among the academic performance.

Their analysis of 239 student’s data reveals very significant results. This

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research establishes that using social media has strong negative impact on

academic performance of students with extrovert personalities. However,

factor of self-regulation among students greatly reduces this negative impact

as they have high level of effective self-control while using social media

platforms.

This research effort aims in finding the effects of social media on the

student’s academic performance. Therefore, the literature review discusses

the relevant study that is useful to the objectives of this research project.

Several research studies investigating the topic under review are found

recently. Since most of the innovation features offered by social media

platforms like facebook, twitter, and many others are not that old and the

phenomenon of the use of these media has been dominated and evolved

recently with the introduction of revolutionary features and platforms.

However, in recent times, social media have provided an additional

medium through which social media can be developed and explored. Social

media has been increasingly popular over the past decade, attracting millions

of active users worldwide. These sites offer an opportunity to maintain

friendships and date. The following article highlights the positive and negative

experience of three people with learning disabilities using social media. The

negative effects of experience reported by our service users highlighted areas

of concern with regard to their safety. As a result, a therapeutic group was

formed to address these online experiences and emotional support. At the

end of the group, service users reported that they are more confident about

discussing and problem solving issues around online use.

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 Abstract one of the recent popular social media platforms is the social

media. Thus far, few previous studies have empirically investigated people’s

motivation for social media usage, especially not outside the U.S. this study

combines a large-scale quantitative and qualitative research design, by asking

1,200 social media users an open question regarding their reasons for using

social media.

An important conclusion drawn from a preliminary content analysis is

that people often report many motivational reasons for using social media.

The most important reason is to get in contact with new people (31%). The

second most valued was to keep in touch with their friends (21%) whereas the

third was general socializing (14%). Sub-reasons were identified: that all give

insight into the personal incentives that drive people use social media and

thus contribute to our understanding of how to develop successful social

media.

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 Chapter III

Methodology

This chapter presents the research design, research locale, the

participants, the instrument, the procedure, and the analysis of the data.

Research Design

This research will use a survey the research design. The researcher

wants to measure the advantage and disadvantages and the effect of social

media in senior high students. Survey research is common types of

quantitative, and researcher selects the respondents from administered and

standard questionnaire to them. The questionnaire or survey has to face the

interview using survey to collect data.

Research Locale

This study will be conducted at Leyte National High School. The

purpose of this research is the advantage and disadvantages and affects of

senior high their academic performance through the use of survey

questionnaires.

Research Respondents

The respondents of this research will be the randomly selected

students of junior and senior high students of Leyte in National High School

here in Tacloban City.

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Research Instrument

This study used survey questionnaires (see Appendix A) made by the

researchers which aimed to collect data on the effects of early involvement to

romantic relationships towards the academic performance of the respondents.

The survey questionnaires that contains 20-item questions. To secure the

validity of the research instrument, the questionnaire was submitted to

research adviser for critiquing and corrections. To test the validity and

reliability of the test, the test was administered to seventy (70) Junior High

and Senior High School students of Leyte National High School for the pilot

testing. The result of items was analyzed to see the power of discrimination

and index of difficulty. The test will be submitted to the researcher’s adviser to

correct the test.

Data Collection

After getting the necessary permit (see Appendix B), the researchers

wrote and personally gave informed letters asking permission to the target

respondents. Upon approval, the researchers and the respondents set a date,

time, and place for the survey. Before the survey formally started, the

researchers oriented first on how the survey would be done. The interview

took place within the school campus, usually in the vacant classrooms during

the participant’s vacant time. The duration of the survey was at the range of

ten (10) to fifteen (15) minutes. After all the fifty (50) respondents were

surveyed the researchers proceeded to the analysis of the data.

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 Chapter I

PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION AND DATA

In this chapter the data analysis and interpretation are presented. The

data were collected and then processed to answer the research questions.

The succeeding is answer to the questionnaire on the profile of the

students that involved the Social Media: It’s Effect on the Academic

Performance of Students.

Table 1. Percent of Students in the Effect of Social Media

Response

Variables
YES NO
No. % No. %
Q1. Do you check social 24 48 26 52
media before you get out
of bed?
Q2. Is checking social 34 68 16 32
media the last thing you do
before going to bed?

Q3. Has social media 28 56 20 40

affected a relationship?

Q4. Do you consider 33 66 17 34

yourself addicted to social
media?
Q5. Have you ever use you 29 58 31 62
social media to others?

Q6. . Have you created an 35 70 15 30

account in social media?

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 Q7. Have you ever been 27 54 23 46
bullied in social media?

Q8. Do you think that 36 72 14 28

social media can help to
your academic
performance?

As shown in the table above that most of the student’s responses were YES,

students are greatly affected their academic performance by social media.

Table 2. Percent of Age the Students in the Effect of Social Media

Age of Respondents Total Percentage

12 6 12
13 6 12
14 3 6
15 6 12
16 5 10
17 4 8
18 5 10
19 8 16
20 1 2
21 1 2
22 3 6
23 2 4
Total of Respondents 50 100

In table 1. It shows that majority or 8 of the respondents to the age

bracket from 19 years old having percentage 16 followed by 6 or 12% to age

of bracket of belonged to 12, 13, and 15 year old, followed by 5 or 10% to the

age bracket belonged to 16,18 years old, followed by 4 or 8% to the age

bracket of 17 years old, followed by 3 or 6% to the age bracket of belonged to

14, 22 year old, 2 or 4% to the age bracket 23 years old, 1 or 2% to the age

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bracket belonged to 20, 21 year old. The findings would mean that majority of

the respondent is 19 years old the highest of students in the effect of social

media.

Chapter V

SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

This chapter presents the summary of the findings, conclusions and

recommendations of the study.

Summary of findings

The study aimed to determine the effects of social media on the

academic performance of among the Junior High School and Senior High

School students of Leyte National High School. The data needed were

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gathered through the distribution of the survey questionnaires to the students

of the sample population who were using social media.

The summary of findings are as follows:

1. The result indicates that majority of the students were using social

media.

2. At age 19, the students are of the greatly affected their academic

performance.

3. Most of the students ages 12-19 spends most of their time on social

media.

4. The result shows that there is a significant relation between the use of

social media by the respondents and their academic performance.

Conclusions

The main objective of the study is to determine the effects of using

social media on the academic performance of the Junior High and Senior

High School students of Leyte National High School. From data gathered, it is

manifested that social media greatly affects the performance of the students.

Recommendations

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 Based on the findings of this study, it is evident that the school,

parents, teachers, and the future researchers should pay attention to the

following:

1. School should offer an awareness forum with the effects on the

improper use of social media.

2. Parents and teachers should always keep on guiding their

children/students.

3. It is highly recommended for the future researchers to study on the

cause or reasons why students spend most of their time on social

media.

References

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 Appendices

APPENDIX A

Social Media: It’s Effect on the Academic Performance of Students

Questionnaire no.

1. How many accounts on social media sites do you have?

1.) 1 2.) 2 3.) 3 above

2. How many times a day does you look at social media?

1.) Not everyday

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 2.) Once a day

3.) 2-5 times a day

3. How much time do you spend on social media per day?

1.) Less than 30 minutes

2.) 1-2 hours

3.) 3 hours above

4. How often do you post on social media?

1.) Never

2.) Every month

3.) Every week

5. When do you use social media?

1.) During free time

2.) At school or work

3.) During social occasions

6. What do you use social media for?

1.) To communicate your friends and family

2.) Buying and selling

3.) Dating

7. Do you check social media before you get out of bed?

Yes No

8. Is checking social media the last thing you do before going to bed?

Yes No

9. Has social media affected a relationship?

Yes No

10. Do you consider yourself addicted to social media?

Yes No

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11. Have you ever use you social media to others?

Yes No

12. Have you created an account in social media?

Yes No

13. Have you ever been bullied in social media?

Yes No

14. Do you think that social media can help to your academic performance?

Yes No

15. What are the possible effects of social media in academic performance of
your studies?

Explain:

16. What do you feel about gaining likes, comments and shares?

Explain:

17. What are the benefits for you of using social media as a student?

Explain:

18. What age did you have a social media account?

Explain:

19. What are the things you learn in social media?

Explain:

20. How do social media helps your academic performance?

Explain

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 APPENDIX B

Permit Letter

Republic of the Philippines

Tacloban City

LEYTE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

March 14, 2019

MRS. BASILISA NEGRU

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School Principal

DEAR MRS. BASILISA NEGRU,

Greetings!

The undersigned is a grade 11 and 12 senior high school students of

Tacloban Central Institute of Technical Studies Inc., presently conducting a
study entitled “Social Media: It’s Effect on the Academic Performance of
Students”

This study is conducted as a requirement for the subject Inquiries

Investigation and Immersion.

In this connection, we would like to request permission from your office

to conduct the research and distribute the questionnaire to the seventy (70)
students in your school. Hoping for your positive response on this regards.

Thank you and more power!

Very truly yours,

Aldrin Villarosa

Approved by:

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