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This document discusses the impacts of smartphone usage on students' academic performance. It finds that smartphones distract students in class, causing them to pay less attention. This leads to poorer academic results. The document aims to determine how smartphone usage specifically affects the academic performance of senior high school students at Luciano Millan National High School. It seeks to understand why students use smartphones in school, how it impacts their grades, and what can be done to balance smartphone use and academics.

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Chapter 1

This document discusses the impacts of smartphone usage on students' academic performance. It finds that smartphones distract students in class, causing them to pay less attention. This leads to poorer academic results. The document aims to determine how smartphone usage specifically affects the academic performance of senior high school students at Luciano Millan National High School. It seeks to understand why students use smartphones in school, how it impacts their grades, and what can be done to balance smartphone use and academics.

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While using smartphones, people become unmindful that causes thousands

of death and faulty activities. Its adverse effect is also seen in work-related tasks,

classroom learnings (HISCOCK, 2004; SELWYN, 2003), and academic

performance (KUSS; GRIFFTHS, 2011). In classroom, students engage in surfing

web, social networking checking emails and text messages and consequently pay

less attention to their lessons (HISCOCK, 2004; SELWYN, 2003). Moreover,

students spend more time with their smartphone the hampers their regular studies.

Smartphone addiction are not the same. Apart from mobile phone addiction tool,

smartphone addiction demands some salient criteria based on its numerous

distinct features (KWON, et al., 2013). Although, previous studies have mixed-up

these two distinct tools and used interchangeably (HONG, et al., 2012). Addiction

in smartphone deserves distinct tool for on its salient features, such as

multitasking, installing applications, internet usability. People also personalize their

smartphones with various apps. It is necessary to identify the criteria of

smartphone addiction that is embedded with the features of smartphone. Hence,

this study aims to identify the smartphone addiction factors specifying the

characteristics of smartphone. Furthermore, the perception of undergraduate

students on smartphone addiction was investigated and the possible impact of this

addiction on their academic performance was evaluated.

According to majority of research done so far, it was discovered that the use

of mobile phone in school is problematic. As Ling and Helmersen states, the mobile

phone is at cross-purpose with the mission of the school. While in the school

students are supposed take on their prescribed roles as student with full
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concentration on their studies and free from contact with the outside world.

However, the mobile phone gives room to blending students` roles with other roles

thus distracting and disrupting the students` academic work. In the past when fixed

telephones were the norm in schools, there were minimum distractions and

disruptions but presently with the invasion of mobile phone and the eagerness of

parents to maintain contact with their wards, the device is becoming part of the

classroom. Thus, the mobile phone has the power to undermine the schools`

authority the weaken their control over students as well as affects their level of

academic performances.

The awareness of possible negative consequences of smartphone usage

certainly reduces the overuse of smartphone. Few studies have been articulated

the impact of smartphone addition on students` academic performance (e.g.,

SAMAHA; HAWI, 2016; HAWI; SAMAHA, 2016), stress (CHIU, 2014) and life

satisfaction (SAMAHA; HAWI, 2016). Thus, it is necessary to investigate further

on academic consequences of smartphone addiction among the young

generation, especially high school students.


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Statement of the Problem

This study aims to determine the Impacts of using Smartphones on the

Academic Performance of the SHS Students of Luciano Millan National High

School, second semester school year 2018-2019. Specifically, it aims to determine

the following:

1. Why do students use smartphones in school?

2. How does smartphones affect the students` academic performance?

3. What remedies can be applied to balance the impacts of using smartphones

on their academic performance?

Significance of the Study

Students. The result of this study may help the students to analyze the

impacts of using e smartphone o their academic performance.

Teachers. They become aware of what the students doing in their class

and be able to make a classroom policy of limiting the use of smartphone

Parents. The result of the study may help the parent to guide their children

on the proper use of cellphone.

Future Researchers. The result of the study may help the future

researchers. This would be their guide in making future researches.


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Scope and Delimitation of the Study

This study focuses on the impact of using smart phone, this research is to

determine what impacts of using smart phone on the academic performance of the

SHS on Luciano Millan National High School, during the second semester school

year 2018-2019. The researchers will use a questionnaire as an instrument to

gather some information. This study is covered only on SHS Student.

Definition of Terms

The terms that will put in here are the words that we need to understand

what it means. Below are the main words of this study.

Impacts. In this study Impacts is the effect of smartphones in the Academic

Performance.

To have a strong and often bad effect on something or someone.

Smartphone. In this study smartphone is a gadget that the SHS Students

use.

A mobile telephone that can be used to send and receive e-mail, connect

to the internet, take photographs.


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Academic Performance. In this study the academic performance is the

way that the SHS students are rated depending on their performance on their

subjects.

Refers to the level of schooling you have successfully completed and the

ability to attain success in your study.

SHS Students. In this study SHS is the abbreviation for “Senior High

School” students. These specific students are the point of interest in this study.

Technology. Can be knowledge of techniques, processes, and the like, or

it can be embedded in machines to allow for operation without detailed knowledge

of workings.

Social Networking. The use of dedicated websites and applications to

interact with other users.

Application. A program or piece of software designed and written to fulfill

a particular purpose of the user.

Addiction. The fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance,

thing, or activity.

Salient. Most noticeable or important.

Awareness. Knowledge or perception of a situation or fact.

Hampers. Hinder or impede the movement or progress.

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