Chapter 5
SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This chapter presents the summary of findings, conclusions,
and recommendations based from the findings undertaken by the
researchers from the study entitled “The Impact of Using Gadgets
on the Students’ Academic Performances”.
Summary
The main purpose of the study was to determine the impact of
gadgets in learning among students at San Mateo National High
School during the school year 2019-2020. It sought answers to the
following problems: 1. What is the demographic profile of the
respondents in the terms of age and gender; 2. the frequency of
use of the following gadgets in learning: cellphone, computer, and
tablet; 3. the impact of gadgets in learning as perceived by the
students; 4. the significant relationship between the frequency of
use and the impact of gadgets in students’ learning?
The study was conducted at San Mateo National High School,
San Mateo which included 80 Junior High School and 20 Senior High
School student respondents who are enrolled in the General Academic
Strand (GAS) during the school year 2019-2020. This study made use
of the quantitative research design with the questionnaire as the
main gathering tool.
Conclusions
Relative to the analyses and interpretation of data, the
following conclusions were drawn:
1. Cellphones were always used by the students, computers were
sometimes used by the students and tablets were seldom used
by the students in learning.
2. The use of gadgets has a moderately positive impact in
learning because of its features that extend the ability of
the students to do more things but it also has a slightly
negative impact because students are most likely to be
distracted by it.
3. There was no significant correlation between the frequency of
use and the impact of gadgets which means the frequency of
the use of gadgets does not affect its impact but instead, it
was based on how we use it.
Recommendations
With all of the foregoing analysis, interpretation, and
conclusions of this study, the following are strongly recommended
for possible course of action.
1. Future researchers can conduct a similar study and improve
some flaws.
2. Another research should be conducted as follow-up study to
investigate further the impact of gadgets in learning.
3. Future researchers can use this study for references.