Research Title:

The Effects of Using Social Media Towards the Senior High Students of Tinago National

High School

Introduction of the Study:

Social media is an internet-based form of communication. Social media platforms allow

users to have conversations, share information and create web content. There are many forms of

social media, including blogs, micro-blogs, wikis, social networking sites, podcasts, widgets, virtual

worlds, and more. Digital media has become a significant factor in many young person’s day to

day routine. Many people across the world are beginning to rely on technology throughout their

day, to the point it can be depicted as a digital limb for some users. we can’t leave a room without

putting our phones in our pockets, many of us even rely on them to wake us up to start our day.

Social media plays a huge part on how people interact with each other in the modern day and

although this increase in communication for young people can be a good thing, it doesn’t without

its downfalls.

Statement of the Problem:

On an academic level, a social media can have an effect on a student productivity when it

comes to concentration in the classroom, time keeping, conscientiousness. Its important to

discuss ways to combat these factors without heralding new media as societal crime which many

previous attempts of raising awareness on this issue have tended to do. it is without a doubt that

platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have introduced many beneficial aspects to

modern day society and its users.

Hypothesis:

1. There is a statistically significant effects of the use of social media towards the Senior

High students of Tinago NHS.

2. There is a significant difference in the effect of using social media on academic

achievements of the Senior High students of Tinago NHS.

Scope and Delimitation:

The focus of this research work is to primary study the effect of using social media

towards the Senior High students of Tinago NHS. This study will comprise in Senior High students

in Tinago NHS, Tinago Inopacan Leyte. But due to this pandemic we need to follow the protocols

so that, this research will conduct at home. So, the instrument that I will going to use for the

questionnaires I will use the messenger app to send the following surveys so that I can gather

information easily. The participants of the study will be 25% total number of students in Senior

High School in Tinago NHS. And last, the student’s profile will answered by having the grade level,

addressed of participants and their age.

Significance of The Study:

This study is significant to the teachers, parents and students. This study will help the

teachers of the school to know the influence that social media has on their students, so as to

assist them to enlighten and create awareness to the students on the possible influence it has on

them. The study is of significant to parents in the sense that they will know the possible effects

this social media usage has on their children, so as to serve as watch-dog to their children on the

usage of the social networking site. And this study will enable the students of the senior level so

that they will be aware that, apart from the social benefits of this social networking site, using the
sites more than necessary will pose possible dangers to their health. It will be relevant in assisting

students in understanding the diversity of social media. It will provide relevance material for

students and other researchers undertaking similar research. The study will help researchers with

more information on the Influenced of social media on student’s academic performance.

Definition of Terms:

1. Internet – is a global wide area network that connects computer systems across the

world.

2. Social Media – is a collection of internet-based communities that allow users to

interact with each other online.

3. Students – a person who is studying at a school or college.

4. Effects – a change which is a result or consequence of an action or other cause.

Review of Related Literature:

Review Internet is being used by an increasing portion of world’s population on a regular

and daily basis. Technology is being implemented in most fields of our lives such as education,

entertainment, and commerce. Many researchers studied the significance of using social media,

and its impact on the academic performance of high school or college students. Some of these

studies focused on the effects of factors such as multitasking, time management, student

characteristics and personality, study system and strategy, and academic competency. Moreover,

some researchers studied the cultural difference of social media patterns uses, the attitudes of

users toward social media and their perspective of social media use.

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

(Facebook) among university students with special focus on the gender- based comparison and
the impact of the selected social medium on their academic performance. The two researchers

evaluate the pattern and frequency of Facebook use among university students while focusing

gender that majority of the users (61%) agree that this social medium 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 Facebook on academic performance,

there was also an opinion that use of Facebook 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. These research analysis shows that using social

media especially in terms of using Facebook is equally popular among male and female student of

the university under study. The researchers evaluate that majority of the users agree that these

social media have adverse effects on their academic performance.

This study related in my study in the way of investigating about the effects of social media

on their academic achievements among Senior High students in TNHS. They are both undertaking

through analyzing a random sample of respondents. Hamat, Embi, & Hassan (2012) studied the

use of social networking platforms among undergraduate and postgraduate students of Malaysian

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

respondents through a self-administered questionnaire and analyzed this data to make

observations on the use of social networking sites among them. The study also collects opinion of

students about the impacts of social medium on their academic performance. One of the very

significant findings of the study is about the use of social networking sites for the purpose of

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

it helps them connect to their friends and peers to get help regarding their studies. However, in

case of interaction with teachers, an equal split of opposite opinions exist. This study also

supports the most common finding of majority of well-structured studies that use of social
networking sites has no significantly negative impact on the students’ academic performance.

They 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 or specifically social

networking sites may cause poor academic performance.

The above literature review shows that other students are using social media for their

learning, they use it 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 academic performance. Negussie & Ketema (2014)

further investigated if there is any impact of using Facebook while accessing through different

devices. Among a variety of devices, it was found that the correlation between using Facebook on

mobile devices and students grades is highly negative as compared to using Facebook on other

devices. This adverse effect is explained by the fact that using cellphones for social networking

activities may involve multitasking and all students are not equally efficient in multitasking skills.

The study suggests, that students must be encouraged to use social networking sites for

educational purposes instead of blocking these platforms in the educational premises. This study

has a correlation in our study because they both proving that using social media has a big impact

in the academic achievement among students. Rouis, Limayem, & Salehi-Sangari (2011)

investigate the effects of using Facebook on academic performance of undergraduate students at

Lulea University of Technology Sweden in relation to their personality traits. The proposed

research model tests how Facebook usage effects performance of students with different

personality traits. In addition the research tries to justify the relationship among the three i.e.

Facebook usage, personality traits and academic performance. Their analysis of 239 students’

data reveals very significant results. This research establishes that using Facebook 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. Cognitive absorption, which

defines of deep involvement, is another personality factor taken into consideration while

undertaking this research. Rouis, Limayem & Salehi-Sangari (2011) successfully make the

observation that extent of cognitive absorption determines the frequency and duration of social

media usage. However, they add that level of cognitive absorption is turn defined by self-control

and other personality factors. While multitasking skills do nothing to reduce frequency and use of

social media among students, they moderate the effects of social media o reveals that among

these students’ performance by tuning the cognitive absorption.

Conceptual/Theoretical Framework:
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 CHAPTER III

METHODOLOGY

Research Instrument:

A well-constructed and self-developed questionnaire titled “ The Effects of Using Social

Media Towards the Senior Students of Tinago National High School” was used to get the desired

information from the students. Data was collected using a Self-designed questionnaire. So that,

the study uses survey questionnaires as the instruments in the gathering the data.

The Study Population and Sample

 The population study in this research may consists of students from Tinago National High

School. Answers were gat hered from 50 out of 149 senior high students. Grade 11 and Grade 12

Senior high school students were the respondents of these research.