SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS' LEVEL OF SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE IN

RELATION TO THEIR ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

A Research Presented to
The Faculty of Senior High School Department
SOGOD NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Zone I, Sogod, Southern Leyte, Philippines

In Partial Fulfillment
Of the Requirements for the Subject
Inquiry, Investigation & Immersion (3I’s)
March 9, 2023

MEMBERS;
ABUYOG, CHARLITO F.
ROSELLO, AVERY TRISHANN B.
 CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

Rationale

Social media is an online service of platforms that focuses on making it easier

for users to join social networks and share interests, activities, and information about

in-person contacts. It is also becoming a private and public online yearbook. As seen

by the exponential rise in the usage of computers, iPods, and other gadgets, students

are using social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube,

gaming sites, and other blogging sites like never before.

Few people pause to contemplate what the word “social media” really implies

because it has become such a crucial component of our daily communication. Social

networking is still a relatively recent phenomenon, at least for the majority of

individuals. This goes back to the early days of the internet and performs different

purposes than websites. With regard to social media usage, the Philippines is

comparable to the rest of the world. Filipinos, and students in particular, are prone to

using this media, but excessive use may have negative effects. This includes the

student’s ability to complete academic home tasks because social media acts as a

barrier to them.

Younger generation are very lucky to live with innovative technologies and

bright inventions of people. In this modern world, one of the popular inventions that is

used worldwide is social media. Social media is the most recent form of media and

having many features and characteristics (Hoih,2017). It is used to communicate

people share their lifestyle, update trends and news, and connect to the world, etc.

Because of the easy access of social media to devices such as smart phones, tablets,
laptops, and etc. which are connected to the internet, the use of social media among

the youth of today is growing by the day and gaining more and more popularity

among students (Celestine & Nonyelum,2018).

According to (Rideout et al.,2016), young people are active social media

users. The mostly used social media platforms, or site are Facebook, What’s App.

Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Skype and etc. In students, Facebook is very popular

and it has a huge population of users all around the world. According to Grossman

(2012), if Facebook were a country it would be the third largest country after China

and India and twice as big as the United States of America. So, it only means that

social media is one of the most common activities among children, adolescents and

emerging adults now a days (Mowafy,2018).

In students, social media is very helpful for it is used for educational purposes,

for communication, entertainment and etc. But sometimes social media can be a

distraction to students. According to Oye (2019), almost 25% of students time on the

interest is spent in social networking sites (Jacobsen & Fortse , 2018). This spent on

social media sites might affect the Academic Performance of students. In the study of

San Miguel (2015) which focused on the relationship between time spent on

Facebook and the academic performance of students, he indicated that more the social

media increased, the academic performance decreased. So, it’s shows that social

media has a negative effect on academic performance. However, in the other study

like Ahmed and Qazi (2014), Hangitton and Hsich (2016). Pasek and Hargittai

(2013), which they conducted the same topic revealed no correlation between social

media and students’ academic performance. (Owusu-Acheaw and Larson, 2015) with

their different respondents, their findings says that there is no relationship between the

social media usage and the academic performance on grades of students.

of Senior high school students with the relation to their academic performance.

Moreover, this study will provide beneficial notions to the aforementioned students

and as well as for the future generation.

Statement of the Problem

This study aims to determine the Senior High School Students’ Level of

Social Media usage with its relation to their academic performance.

More specifically, this tries to answer the following:

1. What is the total percentage of students who use social media

during class hours?

2. What is the level of social media usage of the students?

3. What is the total mean time spent in using social media during

class hours of SHS students?

4. What is the mean academic performance of Senior High School

Students?

5. Is there a significant relationship between mean time spent in

using social media during class hours and the mean academic performance of

Senior High School Students?

6. Is there any difference between or among the level of

social.media usage with relation to the academic performance of the students?

Scope and Delimitation

This study would only revolves around the level of social media usage

and its relation to academic performance of Senior High School Students.. This

study will also include the response of the respondents regarding to their
 excessive usage as if it is not indicated to affect their academic performances.

The alternative respondents of this study are the Senior High School Students in

Sogod National High School under the academic track in the school year of 2022-

2023. Specific app that they were going to utilize and navigate online are not

anymore engage in this study at all. Moreover, this study will utilize research-

made and adapted questionnaires to gather those illicit data..

Significance of the Study

This study entitled “ SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ LEVEL OF

SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE IN RELATION TO THEIR ACADEMIC

PERFORMANCE” will be beneficial to the following:

This study will be able to help the teachers in knowing the relationship of

social media usage and academic performance of SHS students. This will also guide

the teachers in making necessary actions to minimize poor academic performance of

the student.

This study will merit to help students in minimizing the social media usage

and give them insights on how to be a responsible social media user.

This study will be a great help to the parents by having awareness and will

serve as an eye opener for them to keep on track with their child’s academic

performance in school along with the utilization of social media usage.

This study will give an in-depth understanding about the relationship between

social media usage and academic performance of senior high school students. This

will also provide useful ideas for the future researchers which can give possible

solutions that will address the current situation.