Chapter I

INTRODUCTION

Rationale

For most teens, homework was part of high school life, who

spend an average of four hour each week doing homework. All that

homework adds up and hitting the books at home had an effect on

your teenager and on the rest of your family (Roberts, n.d).Homework

was not only stressful to students but on parents. It impacts the

quantity and quality of family time. Your child missed the birthday of

his/her granny because he/she was busy with school activities. It

doesn’t mean to stop homework’s of students because it was also

necessary for the mental development and growth of children. Parents

can help their children by making a schedule and include some fun

activities for your children (Dell’Antonia, 2014).

Social life as a student depends on how much they chose to

engage in social activities. A student’s future could be determined in

the things that they do in the hours after school and before their

parents got home. After school clubs and activities devoted to

exploring and sharing these hobbies would help students socialized

with each other and learned from each other.

Extracurricular activities and social time gave students a

chance to refresh their minds and bodies. But students who had large

amounts of homework had less time to spend with their families

support system. Without time to socialize and relaxed, students could

become increasingly stressed, impacting life at school and at home

(Oxford University, 2016).

Research Objectives

This study aimed to determine an impact of overloaded

homework to students’ social life.

Specifically, it aimed to:

1. Determine an impact of homework in the student’s social life;

2. Determine how much homework was given to the students; and

3. Determine how much time the students spent for homework.

Hypothesis

In this research, the following hypothesis would be tested at 0.05

significance level:

1. There was a significant relationship between homework and

students social life; and

2. Overloaded homework had negative effects to the student’s social

life.

Review of Related Literature

According to Hood (2017), many students got home and the first

thing they do was homework. They’re pressured by their parents to do

their homework while simultaneously being encouraged to spend time

with family, ate, spent time with friends, go outside, participate in

Rather than motivating students to master material and learned

efficiently, homework negatively impacts students by taking away

personal time that was necessary for them to lead balanced lives.

Thompson (2018), said that homework takes time away from

other pursuits. Children who had a large quantity of homework had

less time to spend with their families and friends as regular social

interaction played a critical role in brain development. Children who

got plenty of opportunities to interact with friends and family could

gain valuable social, conflict management and impulse control skills.

When homework reduced this time, children's social development may

suffer. Many families had established routines, such as eating dinner

at a certain time or reading together before bed. These routines could

increase closeness, made it easier to manage stress and ensured that

a household runs smoothly. A child who had several hours of

homework, for example, might not be able to eat dinner with her

parents, and a parent might have to alter her schedule to help her

child with homework. An everyday scenario like this easily highlights

how homework could disrupt family routines.

In addition, Kim (2019) said that Homework itself might not be

the direct caused of depression, but it could have an indirect

relationship. Students who feel overwhelmed with homework had a

harder time balancing their family life, extracurricular activities, and

social life. This could lead them to isolation and depression. If a child
had excessive amounts of homework and they had trouble balancing

their life outside of school, it may take away from their childhood. Not

having time to go outside, play with friends or just "chill" could take

away from the milestone experiences of childhood.

Based on Parker (2014), a Stanford researcher found that too

much homework could negatively affects kids, especially their lives

away from school, where family, friends and activities mattered.

Claire (2015) found that students need more free time for other

activities. Education wasn’t the only important activity in everyone’s

life. Students need some time to prevent stress or blow off from some

steam. It could damage family relationships and stresses parents out

as well as their children. School takes up a lot of time that children

could be using to do something more productive. It takes the

enjoyment out of school. Students would enjoy school more if they

didn’t have any homework. When they only got homework occasionally

they would consider that pieced more important. Especially if they got

too much homework it could took the enjoyment out of learning. No

mattered how engaging the teacher was in class, homework would

almost certainly be stressful, boring and tiring. They knew that there

was no direct link between how much homework was set and grades.

Based on Stanford University (2016), extracurricular activities

and social time gave students a chance to refresh their minds and

bodies. But students who had large amounts of homework had less
time to spend with their families and friends. This could leave them

feeling isolated and without a support system. For older students,

balancing homework and part-time work makes it harder to balance

school and other tasks. Without time to socialize and relaxed,

students could become increasingly stressed, impacting life at school

and at home.

Gill (2019), said that homework played a crucial role in ensuring

students succeeds both inside and outside the classroom. The

numerous hours they spent in class, on school work, and away from

family and friends lead to them experiencing exhaustion. Too much

homework leads to students becoming disheartened by the school,

and it chips away at their motivation for succeeding. Getting enough

time to relax, engaged with friends and family members helped the

students to have fun, thus, raising their spirit and their psyche on

school work. However, when homework exceeds, it affects their

emotional well-being making them sad and unproductive students

who would rather cheat their way through school.

Additionally, McCall (2018) said that after being at school eight

hours, going to practice, commuting home, then doing homework,

there is barely enough time to relax or even spend time with family.

Without time to de-stress after having a long day, anxiety and

emotions build up and up.

freedom and running around outside, the transition back to school

can be tough for any child or parent. Add to that the scads of

homework sent back with kids to complete before the next day, and

parents can find themselves torn between wanting to encourage

children to complete their work and wanting them to get exercise,

play, just be a kid.

According to Levy (2019), spending too much time on homework

meant that students were not meeting their developmental needs or

cultivating other critical life skills. Students were more likely to forgo

activities, stop seeing friends or family, and not participate in hobbies.

Many students felt forced or obligated to choose homework over

developing other talents or skills.

Lohmann (2015), said that students reported that having too

much school work keeps them from spending time with friends and

family. Plus too much school work keeps them from participating in

extra-curricular activities and engaging in activities they enjoy

doing. Sometimes social development can be just as important as

academic development. So the answer may be helping youth find a

balance between school and social life.

According to a GMA News report on Aug. 30 2019.The “holistic

approach” to child development was the reason for this jack-in-the-

box treat for school children: House Bill (HB) No. 3611 filed by House
Deputy Speaker EvelinaEscudero proposes to remove homework as a

requirement for Kinder to Grade 12 students and prohibit students

from taking textbooks home in order to “lighten their physical burden”

and to do academic activities solely within school premises; and HB

No. 3883 filed by Quezon City Representative Alfred Vargas, which

seeks to “promote and protect the physical, moral, spiritual,

intellectual, and social well-being of the youth” and prohibits

elementary and high school teachers from assigning take-home

assignments to students for the weekend. Senator Grace Poe filed

Senate Bill No. 966 to establish a no-homework policy for all primary

and secondary schools in the country.

In addition, Ylagan (2019) said that it was a boo-hoo-hoo how

Department of Education Secretary Leonor Briones so readily

expressed support for the lawmakers’ proposal to implement a “no

homework” policy among kindergarten to Grade 12 students in the

country. “Lahatngmga lessons dapat during school hours. After

that si parents na… Para ’yungmgabatanaman ay may time mag-bond

sa parents o maglaro o just to relax by themselves (All lessons should

be during school hours. After that, the parents are in charge… so that

the children have time to bond with the parents, or play or just

relax),” Briones said in a report.

Based on The Manila Times (2019), the arguments for a “no

homework” policy ostensibly take into account the welfare of students,

their families and teachers. Excessive homework or to state the

on students, many of them very young, after they have already spent a

full strenuous day in the classroom. Projects that students are

expected to complete at home often pose a burdensome expense on

parents, who may not have a ready budget for the last-minute

purchase of needed materials. Assigning homework also adds to the

workload of teachers, who must grade these assignments in addition

to their everyday work of preparing lessons. By banning homework, all

these problems are avoided. Students are afforded proper time for rest

and relaxation, and families are spared the burden of unforeseen

expenses, or time spent shopping for required materials that may be

difficult to find on short notice. Teachers are also spared the extra

time and effort to check homework assignments, and can devote more

time to classroom preparation and work. Secretary Briones has also

suggested the policy would be beneficial in allowing more time for

children and parents to bond socially.

Overall, the authors stated that too much homework has a

negative impact to the student’s social life. If a child has excessive

amounts of homework and they have trouble balancing their life

outside of school, it may take away from their childhood. They also

stated that extracurricular activities and social time are very

important to students because it gives students a chance to refresh

their minds and bodies. But it doesn’t mean to stop homework’s of

growth of children.

Theoretical Framework

This inquiry takes its lead from the view-point of Burrhus

Frederic Skinner, one of the most outspoken behaviorist

psychologists. Skinner is the forerunner of the “behaviorist theory”

which postulated that learning has nothing to do with the mind rather

learning occurred with the acquisition of new behavior. Skinner’s

theorized that people behaved the way they do because this kind of

behavior has had certain consequences from the past. Behaviorists

rely on observable behavior in order to learn. It is suggested further

that a measurable learning outcome is only possible if we change the

learner’s behavior.

Conceptual Framework

Overloaded Student’s
homework social life

Figure 1
Significance of the Study

The results and findings of this study about overloaded homework

and its impact to the student’s social life of senior high students in

Matiao National High School would benefit the following:

Teachers.They would be aware on how much homework they can

gave to the students.

Parents.They would maximized their bonding time and they would

understand their child more.

Students. They would know what were the possible effects of too

much homework to their social life and for them to know how to

balance homework and social activities.

Future researchers. They can have some references and ideas in the

near future if they are going to conduct a research with the same

topic.

Definition of Terms

Homework. It refers to a set of tasks assigned to students by

their teachers to be completed outside the class. Common homework

assignments may include

required reading,a writing or typing project, mathematical exercises to

be completed, information to be reviewed before a test, or other skills

to be practiced.
Social life.It refers to the part of a person's time spent doing

enjoyable things with others.