THE IMPACT OF MOBILE PHONE TO THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF

STUDENTS

ABDULLAH, MORSID
ABUBAKAR, NORFARAH
ANTAO, BEN
DADING, ALMIRA
PANDIAN, SANDRA
TULA, NADIYA

RESEARCH PAPER SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE

DATU SAILILA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL- SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL,
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SUBJECT

INQUIRIES, INVESTIGATION, AND IMMERSION

May, 2023
 CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

Since 2008, smartphone application distribution rate has increased and

there are hundreds of applications available today for user's consumption. While
some apps are used for entertainment and socializing purpose, others are used
for reading current health information and making online purchases.
Today a mobile phone is more than just a device that is use to make phone
calls. One more usage of it is entertainment and social media. Many people can't
live without it, because it is a source of all kinds of connectivity and fun. Mobile
phone helped the people in different ways, but some negative effects are also
there. This current study indicates that when children play games with mobile
phones, it has a significant negative effect for social interaction and self-control,
which emphasizes the importance of parent's supervision on the purpose of
mobile phone use by children.
In some cases, Mobile Phone use has become an addiction and people
remain stuck to their working hours because of it. Students had a decrease in
academic performance because of the more time spend on mobile phone. This
study aims to determine the impact of mobile phone to the academic performance
of students to know if it is positive or negative.
Statement of the problem

This study aimed to determine the impact of mobile phones to the academic
performance of students for S.Y 2022-2023.

This study sought to answer the following questions:

1. To what extent is the socio-demographic profile of students in terms of:

a. Age

b. gender

c. time spend of phone in a day(hrs)

2. To what extent is the level of impact of mobile phone use on learning?

3. To what extent is the level of positive effects of mobile phone on learning

achievements?

4. To what extent is the level of negative effects of mobile phone on learning

achievements?

5. To what extent is the cell phone application usage while studying?

Hypothesis of the Study

There is no significant difference on the impact of mobile phone to the

academic performance of students.

Significance of the Study

The findings of this this study was beneficial to the following:

Students. The students are the most benefited to this study as they will gain a
proper knowledge on the effects of mobile phones in their academic performance.
As they will be enlightened to know the truth.
Teachers. The teachers are called as our second parents. They will be able to
learn the effects of mobile phones in the academic performance of the students.
By this they will be enlightened on how to control, discipline and teach the
students.

School Administration. The school administration will learn and will use their
learnings to be able to create a rule in school to help students use mobile phones
as an instrument in their study.

Scope and Delimitation

This study focused only to determine the impact of mobile phone to the
academic performance of students. The respondents of the study were the grade
11 and 12 SHS students of Datu Sailila National High School for the S.Y 2022-
2023.
Theoretical framework

In 1947 AT&T Bell Laboratories engineer W.Rae Young and Douglas H.Ring
showed that more mobile users could be added by breaking down a large area
into many smaller cells, but that required more frequency coverage than was then
available. However, on 1968 the U.S Federal Communication Commission(FCC)
asked AT&T for a plan for employing a little-used portion of the UHF( Ultrahigh
Frequency) television band. AT&T proposed a cellular architecture to expand its
car-phone services.

Conceptual framework

Independent variable Dependent variable

Impact of

Mobile Phone Academic Performance

Figure 1. Schematic diagram Showing significant relationship between Impact of

mobile phone and Academic performance.
Definition of Terms

Mobile Phone - this is often also called " cellular phone". It is a device mainly used
for a voice call.

Academic performance - is the measurement of students achievement across

various academic subjects.

Impact - having a strong effect on someone or something.

Learning - a process that leads to change, which occurs as a result of experience

and increases the potential for improved performance and future learning.

Education - is both the act of teaching knowledge to others and the act of
receiving knowledge from someone else.
 CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

The role of smartphone and mobile technologies in education must not be

ignored (Tikoria and Agariya, 2017). Academic learning is now innovative as a
result of smartphone and other media in promoting and advancing 21st century
needed skills and knowledge (Tulenko & Bailey, 2013); (Emerson & Berge, 2018).
Students have experiences of digital surroundings in a tactile and personal
manner, which is brought about by some mobile devices, including tablets and
smartphones (Cabo, 2012). According to kinsella(2009), the challenge of
communication kn lecture halls with students is solved due to the use of
smartphones. Mokoena(2012) states that group project and/or work given to the
students by their lectures are easily and convenient carried out with the aid of
smartphones. Form different perspectives, people try to embrace the use of
smartphones because it is no longer use as communication tools (calls and text
messages) only, but also tools for people's social and work lives and possibly a
potential instruments in their academic live(Cano,2012).

According to Gowthami amd Venkatakrishna Kumar(2016), they argue

that the use of the internet is now a routine habit for students, as well as a
medium that is used by students to search for information at anytime and
anywhere. Smartphones and mobile technologies make access, exchange and
mobility of information easier (Kent,2016). Some students can "switch" their focus
between the smartphone as a form of entertainment device and at the same time,
a learning platform (Barnwell,2016). Additionally, smartphones could prove to be
very important in the sense that it gives children, or in this case, students from
different kinds of socioeconomic backgrounds, the same opportunity to access
learning materials(Digital-age information). Some schools have decided to restrict
the use of smartphones in classes or during lectures; the reason being that
enables the students to cheat during their examination and/or test (Buck et
al.,2013). The easy internet access on smartphones enables students to easily
look up their examination and/or tests questions online.
 There are negative impacts of social networks on the academic
performance of students(Rouis et al.,2011). According to Rouis, Limayem, and
Salehi-Sangari (2011), smartphones equip students with access to internet
connections, and this makes them feel the need sometimes to text their friends in
class. In this study, the impact of mobile phone to the academic performance of
students will be determined later in the study.Mobile phone help in academic of
students. They help in providing quick access to technology and information to
students. There are several educational application that you can use on
phone.Globally, there has been a growing trend of using mobile phones for
educational purposes, and many groups, especially teachers and students, use
these devices for sharing information, consulting dictionaries and thesauri. They
have been portrayed as one of the applications and as one of the application for
teaching and learning in which it is portrayed as new opportunity for the ICT use in
education (Lepp et al., 2015).

Gore (2010) According to the research and data analyzed through the
Chi-Square, it was calculated to be .18. This value did not exceed the .05 level of
significance. Means that her research rejects the statement that using cell phones
as a learning tool will positively affect classroom grade.
Junco (2012) found that 53% of undergraduate students at a university
reported text messaging during class. And also students using cell phones during
class are experiencing negative side effects with their academic achievement.

Debate.org (2017) surveys of should students allowed to use cellphones

in school and 72% agreed as they says that mobile phones are good for
education. 28% dis-agreed as a teacher says that students might play during the
session and they can use it to cheat.
Freed(2017) He finds out that students are distracted in learning when
they are using mobilephones, he also states that there’s an increased of students
that are cyberbullied at school.
Chen and Tzeng (2010) found that among heavy Internet users
information seeking was associated with better academic performance, while
video game playing was associated with lower levels of academic performance.
Several recent studies have identified a negative relationship between social-
networking site use (e.g., Facebook, MySpace, Twitter) and academic
performance
Gardiner (2016) He states that cellphone addiction in no joke as students
became more creative in using it text in their laps, text in their notebooks, text
inside their pockets, take pictures while teacher are writing on the board, went to
C.R and find out the answers on quizzes through surfing the internet. Students
also use their cellphones 24/7 as all of his result will lead to the breakdown of their
academic performance and maybe their future.
Koziol (2015) ban mobile phones to help underperforming students
indicates stricter rules around phone use may contribute to better grades
particularly for under performing students banning mobile phones in school
resulted in 14.23 percent improvement in test scores for low-achieving students,
and a 6.41 percent improvement overall in the schools that had introduced a ban
 CHAPTER III
METHODOLOGY

This portion of the study indicates the design, research, instruments,

respondents of the study, data gathering procedure and statistical tool to be use.

Research Design

The researcher used descriptive survey questionnaire to describe the

impact of mobile phone to the academic performance of students

Respondents of the study

The respondents of the study were the thirty (30) selected students of
grade 11 and 12 at Datu Sailila National High School. The total Random Sampling
was used to determine the total number of respondents.

Locale of the study

This study was conducted to the students of DSNHS Banaba Datu Abdullah
Sangki, Maguindanao del Sur. There were thirty (30) respondents, fifteen (15)
respondents came from grade 11 and the remaining fifteen (15) respondent came
from grade 12.

The Research Instrument

To determine the impact of mobile phone to the academic performance of

students, the researcher used survey questionnaire.
Data Gathering Procedure

The researcher asked a permission from the Principals office to conduct

this study. After his approval the researcher likewise seek the permission of the

advisers.

A written permission approved by the school head was secured by the

researcher prior to the administration of the research instrument to the identified

respondents

After doing so, the researcher distributed the questionnaires to the

respondents personally to allow her to gather the needed data. Right after the

respondents filled-up the questionnaire, the same was automatically retrieved.

After the instruments was retrieved, the data was collated, tallied, analysed

using the quantitative approaches. The data was presented in table and text after

it was analyzed and interpreted.

Statistical Treatment

In this study, the statistical tools used in the data analysis were Frequency
count and percentage in interpreting the profiles of the respondents. Mean will be
used in interpreting the effectiveness of mobile phone to the academic
performance of students in specific grade in DSNHS using the four (4) points
scale below.

Scales Mean Description

1 3.50-4.00 Always
2 2.50-3.49 Often
3 1.50-2.49 Sometimes
4 1.00-1.49 Never
Scales Mean Description
1 3.50-4.00 Strongly Agree
2 2.50-3.49 Agree
3 1.50-2.49 Disagree
4 1.00-1.49 Strongly Disagree
 CHAPTER IV
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

This chapter presents the analysis and interpretation of the data gathered
at this study.

Table 1. Socio-demographic profile of students

Frequency Percentage

Age:

16 2 6.70%

17 3 10%

18 12 40%

19 7 23.33%

20 2 6.70%

21 2 6.70%

22 2 6.70%

Gender:

Male 9 30%

Female 21 70%

Time spend of phone in a day(hrs)

1hr 9 30%

2hrs 12 40%

3hrs 5 16.70%

5hrs 3 10%

8hrs 1 3.33%

Table 1 showed the socio-demographic profile of students in terms of age,

gender, and time spend of phone in a day(hrs).
 Age. Out of thirty(30) respondents, 12(40%) of the respondents are 18
years old followed by 7(23.33%) of the respondents are 19 years old, 3(10%) of
the respondents are 17 years old and 2(6.70%) of the respondents are in every
age of 16,20,21, and 22. This shows that most of our respondents are 18 years
old.

Gender. In terms of gender, 21(70%) of the respondents are female and

9(30%) are male. Most of our respondents are female.

In terms of time spend on mobile phone in a day (hrs), 12(40%) of the

respondents have spend their time in a phone in 2hrs, followed by 9(30%) of the
respondents spend their time in 1hr, 5(16.70%) of the respondents are spend their
time in 3hrs, 3(10%) of the respondents spend their time in 5hrs while 1(3.33%) of
respondent are spend their time in 8hrs. This shows that most of our respondents
are spend their time in mobile phone in 2hrs.

Table 2. Impact of Mobile Phone use on learning

Indicators Mean Interpretation

1.How often does the use of mobile phone in class interfere 2.90 Often
your learning?

2. How often does the use of mobile phone in class assist your 2.90 Often
learning?

3. How often do the calls/messages received just before class 2.40 Sometimes
impact on your ability to concentrate?

4. How often does the use of mobile phone during your study 2.63 Often
time distract you?

5. How often does the use of mobile phone during your study 2.90 Often
time assist you in learning?

Overall mean 2.74 Often

Scale: Mean Interpretation

3.50-4.00 Always

2.50-3.49 Often

1.50-2.49 Sometimes

1.00-1.49 Never

Table 2 on the impact of mobile phone use on learning has the total
weighted mean of 2.74 and interpreted as often. This means that the mobile
phone on class are often interfere and assist the learning of the students.

In terms of the impact of mobile phone useon learning, it can be observed

on the table that items number 1. How often does the use of mobile phone in
class interfere your learning, 2. How often does the use of mobile in class assist
your learning, 5. How often does the use of mobile during your study time assist
you in learning, 4. How often does the use of mobile during your study time
distract you with a weighted mean of 2.90,2.63 and interpreted as often. In item
number 3. How often do the calls/messages received just before class impact on
your ability to concentrate with a weighted mean of 2.40 are interpreted as
sometimes.

Table 3. Positive effects of mobile phone on learning achievements.

Indicators Mean Interpretation

1. I can easily contact the teachers for study purpose. 3.03 Agree

2. I can easily contact classmates to get help in studies. 2.83 Agree

3. My academic performance has been increased due to 2.43 Disagree

mobile technology.

4. The mobile phone has helped to improve the level of the 2.73 Agree
quality of education.

5. The teachers uses mobile phone in the classroom. 2.73 Agree

6. Students use dictionary/the saurus/calculator of mobile 2.63 Agree
phone in classess.

Overall mean 2.73 Agree

Scale : Mean Interpretation

3.50-4.00 Strongly Agree

2.50-3.49 Agree

1.50-2.49 Disagree
1.00-1.49 Strongly Disagree

Table 3 on positive effects of mobile phone on learning achievements has

overall mean of 2.73 and interpreted as Agree. This mean that students can easily
contact the teachers and classmates for study purpose and improve the level of
the quality of education because of mobile phone.

Other indicators such as, 1 I can easily contact teachers for study purpose,
2 I can easily contact classmates to get help in studies, 4 the mobile phone has
helped to improve the level of the quality of education, 5 the teachers uses mobile
phone in classroom, 6 students use dictionary/ the saurus/calculator of mobile
phone in classes with a weighted mean of 3.03, 2.83, 2.73, 2.63 and interpreted
as Agree. While the item number 3 my academic performance has been
increased due to mobile technology with a mean of 2.43 and interpreted as
disagree.
 Table 4. Negative effects of mobile phone on learning achievements.

Indicators Mean Interpretation

1. I keep my mobile phone on and the ringtone disturbs 2.6 Disagree

the class.

2. I purchased the mobile phone without the permission of 2.7 Disagree

the parents.

3. I sent missed calls to class fellows to disturb the class. 2.80 Disagree

4. I waste my time sending/writing SMS during class work. 2.5 Disagree

5. The mobile phone has put negative impact on students 2.33 Agree
moral values.

6. The mobile phone is a waste of time for students. 2.60 Disagree

7. The students use mobile phone in examination hall as a 2.50 Disagree

source of unfair means.

8. Students tease the fellow mates by sending missed 2.3 Agree

calls through unknown members.

9. Mobile phone is responsible for my low academic 2.53 Disagree

performance.

Overall mean 2.54 Disagree

Scale : Mean Interpretation

3.50-4.00 Strongly Disagree

2.50-3.49 Disagree

1.50-2.49 Agree

1.00-1.49 Strongly Agree

 Table 4 on negative effects of mobile phone on learning achievements has
overall mean of 2.54 and interpreted as disagree. This means that the students
are disagree that they sent missed calls to class fellows to disturb the class.

In terms of negative effects of mobile phone on learning achievements,

items number 1 I keep my mobile phone on and the ringtone disturbs the class, 2 I
purchased the mobile phone without the permission of the parents, 3 I send
missed calls to class fellows to disturb the class, 4 I waste my time sending/writing
SMS during class work, 6 the mobile phone is a waste of time for students, 7 the
students use mobile phone in examination hall as a source of unfair means, 9
mobile phone is responsible for my low academic performance with a weighted
mean of 2.6, 2.7, 2.80, 2.5, 2.60, 2.50, 2.53 and interpreted as disagree. Other
indicators such as, 5 the mobile phone has put negative impact on students moral
values, 8 students tease the fellow mates by sending missed calls through
unknown members with a weighted mean of 2.33, 2.3 are interpreted as Agree.

Table 5. Cellphone application usage while studying

Application Mean Interpretation

1. Internet 2.70 Often

2. Text Messaging (SMS) 2.5 Often

3. Voice calls 2.5 Often

4. Multi Media Messaging (MMS) 2.53 Often

5. Camera 2.70 Often

6. Video Recording 2.50 Often

7. Calendar 2.9 Often

8. Calculator 2.93 Often

9. Clock 2.93 Often

10. Games 2.53 Often

11. Organizer 2.5 Often

12. Radio 2.3 Sometimes

13. Audio Recording 2.4 Sometimes

Overall mean 2.60 Often

Scale : Mean Interpretation

3.50-4.00 Always

2.50-3.49 Often

1.50-2.49 Sometimes

1.00-1.49 Never

Table 5 on cellphone application usage while studying with an overall mean

of 2.60 and interpreted as often. This means that almost all of the cellphone
application are often use by students while studying.

The application number 8 calculator, 9 clock with a highest weighted mean

of 2.93, followed by 7 calendar with a mean of 2.9, 1 internet, 5 camera with a
mean of 2.70, 4 multi media messaging (MMS), 10 games with a mean of 2.53, 6
video recording with a mean of 2.50, 2 text messaging (SMS), 3 voice calls, 11
organizer with a mean of 2.5 are interpreted as often. Other indicators such as, 13
audio recording, 12 radio with a weighted mean of 2.4, 2.3 are interpreted as
sometimes.
 CHAPTER V
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

This chapter summarizes the study, draws conclusion, findings and offers
recommendations for future direction.

Summary of the Study

This study aimed to find out the impact of mobile phone to the academic
performance of students. Specifically, it sought to answer the following questions:
(1) To what extent is the socio-demographic profile of students in terms of a) age,
b) gender, c) time spend of phone in a day (hrs) (2) To what extent is the level of
impact of mobile phone use on learning (3) To what extent is the level of positive
effects of mobile phone on learning achievements (4) To what extent is the level
of negative effects of mobile phone on learning achievements (5) To what extent
is the cellphone application usage while studying.

The researchers used descriptive survey. The descriptive survey is a fact

finding study with adequate and accurate interpretation. It is used to collect
demographic data about the people's behavior, practices, intention, beliefs,
attitude, opinions, judgements, interest, perception and the like and then such
data are analyzed, organized and interpreted (Calderon and Gonzales, 2019).
The data being gathered extensively all about the impact of mobile phone to the
academic performance of students. This data was taken from survey
questionnaire which were made for further analysis.

The respondents of the study were the grade 11 and 12 students of Datu
Sailila National High School. The study was conducted in 15 grade 11 and 15
grade 12 students of Datu Sailila National High School.
Summary of Findings

Based from the statement of the problem posted in the first portion of the
study. Tge summary of findings was enumerated as follows.

1. On the impact of mobile phone use on learning the overall mean is 2.74
and interpreted as often.

2. On the positive effects of mobile phone on learning achievements total

mean is 2.73 and interpreted as Agree.

3. Onthe negative effects of mobile phone on learning achievements overall

mean is 2.54 and interpreted as Agree.

4. On cellphone application usage while studying total mean is 2.60 and

interpreted as often.

Conclusion

From the major findings of this study, the conclusion state that the mobile
phone has something to do with the academic performance of students.. In the
existence needs, the students needs mobile phone to easily contact their teachers
and classmates for study purpose. But, there should be a limitation in using their
mobile phone specially, on an examination hall.

Recommendations

On the basis of the summary of findings and conclusion of this study. The
following recommendations are formulated.

1. Students must aware if the mobile phone is interfere or assist their

learning.

2. Students must have a mobile phone for them to easily contact the teachers
and classmates for study purpose.
 3. There should be a regulation that no students are allowed to enter into
their classroom with their cell phones switched on in order to make them
concentrate on listening to the teacher and taking notes from the discussion.

4. Students must avoid using their mobile phone while studying.

APPENDIX
 QUESTIONNAIRE
The Impact of Mobile Phone to the Academic Performance of Students

Name of respondents(optional):________________________________________
Grade Level/Section:________________________________________________

This questionnaire intends to solicit your views on the impact of mobile

phone to the academic performance of students for S.Y. 2022-2023. Your answer
will be much appreciate and shall be treated in confidentiality.

PART I. Socio-demographic profile

Instruction: Please indicate your answer
Age:______
Gender:_______
Time spend of phone in a day(hrs.):________

PART II. Impact of Mobile Phone use on learning

Instruction: Please indicate your answer by putting a circle corresponding pn your
answer. Choose a number that represents your choice using the following scale:
4-always, 3-often, 2-sometimes and 1-never.

Indicators 4 3 2 1
1.How often does the use of mobile phone in class interfere your 4 3 2 1
learning?
2. How often does the use of mobile phone in class assist your learning? 4 3 2 1
3. How often do the calls/messages received just before class impact on 4 3 2 1
your ability to concentrate?
4. How often does the use of mobile phone during your study time distract 4 3 2 1
you?
5. How often does the use of mobile phone during your study time assist 4 3 2 1
you in learning?

PART III. Positive effects of mobile phone on learning achievements.

Instruction:Please indicate your answer by putting a circle corresponding on your
answer. Choose a number that represents your choice using the following scale:
4-Stongly Agree, 3-Agree, 2-Disagree and 1-Strongly Disagree.
Indicators 4 3 2 1
1. I can easily contact the teachers for study purpose. 4 3 2 1
2. I can easily contact classmates to get help in studies. 4 3 2 1
3. My academic performance has been increased due to mobile 4 3 2 1
technology.
4. The mobile phone has helped to improve the level of the quality 4 3 2 1
of education.
5. The teachers uses mobile phone in the classroom. 4 3 2 1
6. Students use dictionary/the saurus/calculator of mobile phone 4 3 2 1
in classess.

PART IV. Negative effects of mobile phone on learning achievements.

Instruction: Please indicate your answer by putting a circle corresponding on your
answer. Choose a number that represents your choice using the following scale:
4-Strongly Disagree, 3-Disagree, 2-Agree and 1-Strongly Agree.
Indicators 4 3 2 1
1. I keep my mobile phone on and the ringtone disturbs the 4 3 2 1
class.
2. I purchased the mobile phone without the permission of the 4 3 2 1
parents.
3. I sent missed calls to class fellows to disturb the class. 4 3 2 1
4. I waste my time sending/writing SMS during class work. 4 3 2 1
5. The mobile phone has put negative impact on students moral 4 3 2 1
values.
6. The mobile phone is a waste of time for students. 4 3 2 1
7. The students use mobile phone in examination hall as a 4 3 2 1
source of unfair means.
8. Students tease the fellow mates by sending missed calls 4 3 2 1
through unknown members.
9. Mobile phone is responsible for my low academic 4 3 2 1
performance.

PART V. Cellphone application usage while studying

Instruction: Please indicate your answer by putting a circle corresponding on your
answer. Choose a number that represents your choice using the following scale:
4-always, 3-often, 2-sometimes and 1-never.
Application 4 3 2 1
1. Internet 4 3 2 1
2. Text Messaging (SMS) 4 3 2 1
3. Voice calls 4 3 2 1
4. Multi Media Messaging (MMS) 4 3 2 1
5. Camera 4 3 2 1
6. Video Recording 4 3 2 1
7. Calendar 4 3 2 1
8. Calculator 4 3 2 1
9. Clock 4 3 2 1
10. Games 4 3 2 1
11. Organizer 4 3 2 1
12. Radio 4 3 2 1
13. Audio Recording 4 3 2 1