The Effectiveness of Social Media on ABM Students of San Juan Senior
High School towards Academic Performance
Introduction
Social media is a phrase that we throw around a lot these days, often to
describe what post on sites and apps like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
Snapchat, and others. But if we use the term to describe a site like Facebook,
and also a then it starts to get more confusing. (Nations, 2017)
Today’s world is a global village. Everyone is connected to one another in
this vast network generated by the internet. As said by Marshall Mcluhan a
philosopher of communication theory, “The new electronic independence re-
creates the world in the image of a global village”. This electronic independence
is inherently dependent upon the internet. It illuminates the lives of thousands of
people by spreading knowledge internationally, theory making is a global
citizens.
According to Karadkar (2015), communicating and free sharing of
thoughts among people were restricted by long distance, nationality or/and
religion. But how, even these barriers cannot stop the flow of information and
knowledge. The new world of social networking allows free sharing of thoughts.
Online social networks are created websites such as Facebook, which has
emerged as a giant in this world. So how these networks affect our education?
How do they influence the lives of our students?
As of 2015, the world’s largest social networking company, Facebook has
1.49 billion active users, and the number of users is increasing every year. One
of the most interesting things to look at is the increasing number of student users
on such social networking sites. As per the survey conducted by PEW Research
Center, 72 percent of high school and 78 college students spend time on
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. These numbers indicate of much the students’
community is involved in this virtual world of social networking.
Based on studies, about 50% of the surveyed students said to have more
than three accounts on various networking sites including instagram, twitter,
tumblr, snapchat, etc. While the data seems to indicate that technology is taking
over the lives of high school students only 36.4% of the teenagers said that it
regularly interfaces with their school work.
On the other hand, social media on its characteristics and capability helps
a lot on students’ performance.
According to Staff (2016), there are many things that social media
technologies allow a person to do. For instance, social networking sites allow
One to share any form of data-ranging from a simple picture or image to the arge
pads or links of websites which contain a large amount of information.
Social networking technologies also allow one to share thought or two. It
helps a person at one and of the world connect and exchange ideas with a
person at the other end of the world. It is not just a source of entertainment but
influential too. One can adopt to gain positive returns in education.
Social networking sites although has been recognized as an important
resource for education today, studies however shows that students use social
networking sites such as Facebook for fun, to kill time, to meet existing friends or
to make new ones ( Lampe et.al, 2007). Although it has been put forward that
students spends much time or participating in social networking activities, with
many students blaming the various social networking sites for their steady
decrease in grade point averages (Lee et.al 2009). It also show that only few
students are aware of academic and professional networking opportunities the
sites offered.
Research Question
The following questions were raised:
1. How the academic performance of students in San Juan Senior High
School influenced by the Social Media?
2. Does the student’s exposure on social media affects their academic
performance?
3. Is there any relationship between student’s profile and their social media
used?
4. What are the effects of social media towards academic performance of
student’s in San Juan Senior High School?
5. Is there any possibility that social media can be a tool towards academic
performance of the student’s?
Statement of the Problem
This study will determine and analyze the effectiveness of social media on
ABM students of SJSHS towards work efficiency. Specially, it will answer the
following question:
1. What are the profile of the respondents based on the following:
1.1 Age;
1.2 Gender:
1.3 Social Media Used
2. What are the effects of social media to the respondents towards work
efficiency according to:
2.1 good relationship with other students;
2.2 fast learning:
2.3 credible source of information
3. How social media develops the type of learners?
4. Is there any significant relationship between the effectiveness of social media
on AMB students of SJSHS and work efficiency?
5. What are the possible recommendations for the better performance of ABM
students by the help of social media?
Strategies for Data Collection and Analysis and Privacy Considerations
The researchers will make a questionnaire that will be their tool to find the
needed answers for this thesis from the respondents. It will include some
literature and conceptual review that connected to the topic. The Effectiveness of
Social Media on ABM Students of San Juan Senior High School towards
Academic Performance. The questionnaire is composed of the respondent’s
profile and statements that will be answer by putting check for the corresponding
choices.
After the formulation of questions, the researchers will be going to ask for
the approval of their Research teacher. As long as their question, it is time for
them to conduct the survey.
The respondents of this research will be composed of 113 ABM students
of San Juan Senior High School. The researchers will choose this set of
respondents because they are more applicable for the topic.
Before the survey, the researchers will first introduce the topic for the
respondents so that they will be aware for this. After they administer and all the
questionnaires are being answered, the researchers will collect immediately.
The researchers will assure confidentiality of their survey sheets since the
identities are not important. The researcher’s will also understand that people’s
consciousness may also affect their honesty and effectiveness in answering the
survey and so, the researchers will collect the survey right after. There are no
incentive will offer the participating the research.
