Effects of Social Media to the Academic Performance

of Senior High School Students

A Research Proposal

Presented to

Marjune M. Nepaya, LPT, M.Ed. -Math

Ormoc City Senior High School

Ormoc City

In Partial Fulfillment

of the Subject Requirements for

Practical Research 2

by

Hannah Teresita B. Garciano

HUMSS 12- ARES

January 2021
 CHAPTER I

Introduction

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Over the past few years, Social Media has grown to be phenomenon on our

culture. Social Media are websites and applications that enable users to create and

share current or participate in Social networking. Social media plays an important role in

every student’s life. Social media is about collaborating, networking, sharing, and

generating knowledge and content; all of those features are of great value in context of

higher education (Priyanka Gupta, 2015). But still, social media is considered to be the

deteriorating agent in academics by some people.

A study of Weiser (2008) shows the vast majority of college students are using

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and etc. (Hitam and Indrus, 2014). For

significant reasons such as making new friends and locating old friends. However, they

also suggested that students use social media apps and platforms not only for social

purposes but also for educational purposes. According to Ellison et al., (2007) research

results, it shows that students use social media only for fun, to have contact with

friends, and to follow photos, videos, events and more (Hitam and Idrus,2014). Thus, it

can be said that social media is rarely used for educational purposes. It appears

therefore that social media fulfil its role as its was intended by creators to support social

networks. Statistics shows that women spend more time on social media more

effectively than men (Priestly, 2017).

 This study helps to know and evaluate how participation or engaging to social

media effects or contribute to the academic performance of Grade 12 HUMSS students

in Ormoc City Senior High School.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

This study on the Effects of Social Media to the Academic Performance of Grade 12 HUMSS

Students in Ormoc City Senior High School aims to investigate the Effects of Social Media to the

Academic Performance of Grade 12 HUMSS Students in Ormoc City Senior High School.

Specifically, it also aims to answer the following questions:

1. How many students from Grade 12 HUMSS are social media user?

2. What type of social media do students from Grade 12 HUMSS usually engaged to?

3. What is the general purpose of each students from Grade 12 HUMSS in engaging or using

social media?

4. How the use of social media has influenced the academic performance of Grade 12 HUMSS

students in Ormoc City Senior High School?

Scope and Delimitation

This study aims to determine and evaluate the effects of social media usage to

the academic performance of the students inside the classroom. The researchers only

include those students who did identify themselves as a social media user, since this

study are focusing on the effects of social media usage to the academic performance of

the students. This study focuses only on grade 12 HUMSS students of Ormoc City

Senior High School as the researches respondents for gathering data.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The findings of the study will benefit to the following entities:

Students (Ormoc City Senior High School)

Engaging in social media does make a great difference in ones’ life as it is

already being embedded in our lifestyle. As results of this study shows how does

engaging in such interface can contribute to a students’ academic performance. It can

assist them and serves as basis either to lessen or improve the social media usage

prior to the results of this study.

Teachers (Ormoc City Senior High School)

 This study will help teachers to implements rules or guide students as to action in

terms of social media usage and provide interventions prior to the results of the study.

Negative results help the teachers of the school to know the influence that social media

has on their students, to assist them to enlighten and create awareness to the students

on the possible influence it has on them.

Parents

As study shows the effects of social media usage to the students’ academic

performance. The outcome of this study will take part in informing the parents of the

community to monitor the time that their children use of social media.

Future researchers

As future researchers conduct research involving Social Media Usage and its

effects on students’ academic performance. The result of this study will guide the future

researchers in evaluating and testing the validity of their findings in related literature.

The result of the study will serve as cross- reference for their study in the future.