REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

Region III
Department of Education
Towerville Phase 6B Brgy. Gaya-gaya City of San Jose del Monte Bulacan
Marangal National High School

Effects of Social Media to the studies of Grade 10 Junior High School Students in
Marangal National High School

Submitted by:

Abingona, Jazzle Anne T.

Abude, Reyna Joy B.

Anca, Marife P.

David, Dessielyn A.

Gallardo, Paul John Rome G.

Garay, Diana Rose G.

Submitted to:

Mr. Marvin Neil Medina

Date of Submission:

March 19, 2018

 Table of Contents

I. Abstract

II. Chapter One

The Problem and Its Background

Introduction

Background of the Study

Statement of the Problem

Significance of the Study

Scope and Limitation

Hypothesis

Alternative

Null

III. Chapter Two

Review of Related Literature and Studies

Foreign Literatures and Studies

Local Literatures and Studies

IV. Chapter Three

Methodology

V. Chapter Four

Results and Discussion

VI. Chapter Five

Conclusion

VII. Acknowledgement
 Abstract

Title: Effects of social media to the studies of Grade 10 Junior High School students in Marangal
National High School.

Name of Researchers:

Abingona, Jazzle Anne T.

Abude, Reyna Joy B.

Anca, Marife P.

David, Dessielyn A.

Gallardo, Paul John Rome G.

Garay, Diana Rose G.

Submitted to:

Mr. Marvin Neil B. Medina

Date of Submission:

March 19, 2018

This study was conducted by the Grade 10 Junior High School students under their English
adviser, Mr. Marvin Neil B. Medina. Its role is to give information about the effects of social
media to the studies of Grade 10 Junior High School students in Marangal National High School.
The goal of this study is to give background knowledge on what social might do to the grade of
the said students. This study is a big help to identify if social media affects the academic
performance of Grade 10 Junior High School students.
 Effects of Social Media to the studies of Junior High School Students

Introduction

Social media is a vital tool for student’s studies and state of mind nowadays. Students use the
social media for communication, studies, socializing and interaction with different types of
people and seem to gradually take most of their attention and time. Some Junior High School
students are responsible enough to moderate their use of social media but some students are not
capable to manage their time between social media and their studies thus taking their studies for
granted.

The objective of our group is to know the problems of Grade 10 Junior high school students
who became addicted to social media that causes them to fail their scores in quizzes, long tests,
examinations and their other activities. The addiction of social media of some students of Grade
10 Junior High school students in Marangal National High School is by too much exposure in
social media sites and online gaming; also by having their time consumed for insignificant social
media stalking, photo uploading and even cyber bullying.

Background of the Study

The researchers want to explain to Grade 10 Junior High School students on how social media
might affect their studies. Some students don’t pay attention to their studies and lectures; don’t
have enough time to sleep that causes them to arrive late at school and when they arrive late,
they distract their classmate’s learning and interrupt the instructor’s train of thought all because
of too much exposure to social media even during late at night. This often occur at the beginning
of class, when the instructor is making connection to previous materials and training the day’s
content in terms of key questions or points. When Grade 10 Junior High School students come to
school late they not only miss important training information, but the distraction they create may
cause other students to miss it too. For example, teachers may interpret being late as a form of
disrespect while fellow classmates may become annoyed and lose focus. By informing or
reminding Grade 10 Junior High School students how their behavior affect others can sometimes
be enough to correct the behavior.
Statement of the Problem

General Problem

The study aims to identify the effect of social media to school of the Junior High School
students of Marangal National High School.

Specific Problem

1. How many Grade 10 Junior High School Students in Marangal National High School are
coming late on their classes because of social media?
2. How do social media affect the study phase of Junior High School Students in Marangal
National High School?
3. What could be the possible reasons why social media affect the studies of Junior High
School students of Marangal National High School?
4. How can use of social media possibly be moderated?

Significance of the study

The outcome of the study is based on the preliminary survey and the data obtained is deemed
beneficial to many groups of people such as:

Students

Through this study; they will be informed if the social media are not good for the studies of the
Grade 10 Junior High school students of Marangal National High School.

Parents

They will be informed of their child’s behavior because of social media and what can they do
to prevent their child to become addicted with social media and affect their studies.

Teacher

They will know through this study that being too exposed with social media affect the student’s
performance in school. Aside from that, they will also be aware of what is the importance of the
basic solution of the said problem in Marangal National High School students.
Scope and Limitation

The Students focuses only on the social media and its effects to the studies of the Selected
Junior High School Students of Marangal National High School, School year 2017-2018. It also
further validating base on the Responses on Effect of social media within the vicinity of
Marangal National High School students. The total number of our respondent is twenty; they are
Grade 10 students Junior High School in Marangal National High School. The study was started
on January 2018 and ended on March 2018.

Hypothesis

Alternative

In this study, social media has certain effect on selected Junior High School Students of
Marangal National High School.

Null

In this study, social media has negative effects on selected Junior High School Students of
Marangal National High School.
Chapter Two

Review of Related Literature and Studies

Local Literature

TABUK CITY, Kalinga – People all over the world have been enjoying the benefits of using technology
nowadays. In the past, communicating and free sharing of thought between people are restricted by long
distance, race, and even religion. But now these barriers can no longer stop the flow of information and
knowledge because now the new world of social networking allows free sharing of thoughts through
online social networking sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and the like.

Since students are highly motivated to using social media sites the majority of them use these to satisfy
their social needs more than their academic needs. They have the freedom to do whatever they want –
they can upload or download data, they can make new friends and comment on other people’s lives, and
they can even create other online identities the real world does not allow. It has been observed too that
the majority of the students nowadays, particularly those in the secondary level, spend most of their time
chatting with their acquaintances, playing online games, and watching videos instead of reading their
lessons, making their assignments, and other academic requirements. The main reason is when they work
or search their materials online they get attracted to social networking sites to kill boredom during study
time, diverting their attention from their work. The darker side of this that has gained the attention of
many parents is that some students are getting lazier and are no longer interested in going to school. This
is probably due to being extensively indulged to get global access and therefore leading them to perform
less academically.

I have observed from my Grades 7 and 8 students at the Tabuk City National High School the same
positive and negative impact of using social media inside and outside the classroom. I found these social
sites helpful when one time I needed to communicate with my students, reminding them of their
assignments and urgent requirements. In addition, l also used these social sites to refer my students to
helpful resources that could fetch them higher grades in academics. I tried to encourage the students,
particularly the teens with gadgets having internet facilities, to use it to supplement their researches in the
library rather than the usual chatting with friends all the time.

As a result, almost 85 percent of them were able cope with their academic difficulties and at least 65 to 75
percent of the class obtained the average level of performance. However, students should be encouraged
to limit the time they spend on social media sites and be advised to rather substitute those hours with
reading some learning materials – short stories, novels, etc. to improve their vocabulary. Since the use of
social media sites had affected the academic performance of students negatively, there is a need to
introduce the students other information resources or materials that would motivate and help them
perform well in their academics.

We can’t deny the fact as years pass by the demand for internet usage keeps increasing because it is
already a necessity among end users, particularly to students. Developers have created online social
media sites where people can have more advanced, more reliable, and more creative ways of
communicating. This shows we, humans, are social animals. We always want to belong in a group where
we also prefer what the group does.

According to a survey conducted by Pew Research Center, as of 2015 the largest social networking
company, Facebook for example, has 1.49 billion active users and the number of users is increasing every
year. As part of the said survey, 72 percent of high school students and 78 percent college students spend
time on these social networking sites – Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Viber, E-mail, etc. These
numbers evidently indicate how much the student community is involved in this virtual world of
networking. Students prefer social media sites as reliable sources of information because everything is a
package. A research conducted by Gagne sometime in 2003 defined media in general as some kind of
components in a students’ environment that can stimulate them to study better. Researchers also found
that the use of some types of social media has beneficial effects to students, not only on their academic
needs but also to help them establish a sense of identity and build and enhance networking skill

Chapter Three

Methodology

The researchers used a questionnaire to gather their needed data. This research was conducted
on March 14, 2018, during the break time of the respondents.

Chapter Four

Results and Discussion

Based on the gathered results from the questionnaires , the researchers conclude that social
media consume at least 70% to 80% of students’ free time given that they have a smartphone,
tablet, laptop or computer they can use and internet connection.

Although being exposed with the internet gives access to vast information and knowledge,
without proper use and intentions, this can greatly affect the students’ state of mind. Because of
having social media consume most of their free time, students, most of the time take their studies
for granted. Not only they have tendency to neglect their studies, some even lost a healthy live
interaction with people being too engrossed in the cyberworld and some even experience cyber
bullying that not only can affect their studies but also how they look on their self and how others
perceive them whether the facts found on social media were true or not.

Chapter Five

Summary

Conclusion

We conducted a research on effects of social media in the class of Junior High School students
of Marangal National High School. In this research, we found out that using social media affects
the performance of some students at school.
 For the social media users, over using social media affects their performance in class. This can
also lead to conclusion that some students need to set their priority and schedule of activities
straight and learn to focus on more relevant matters and actual social interaction rather than
indulging themselves too much on the so called cyberworld and social media sites.

Acknowledgement

We are grateful first of all; we would like to thank our families for supporting us while doing
our research. We thank them for giving us financial and moral support to accomplish our
proposed study. We would also like to give credits to Mr. Marvin Neil B. Medina, for helping
and guiding us while doing the research and time for the revisions of our study. We also thank
each members of the group for participating and contributing to make our research possible. And
for all those respondents who willingly answered the survey questions that we conducted, thank
you very much.