Research Paper

Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
Caraga Administrative Region
Division of Surigao del sur
CARRASCAL SURIGAO DEL SUR
CARRASCAL NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Nat’l highway, Gamuton, Carrascal Surigao del sur
The Impact of Using Social Media to the Academic

Performance of Grade 7-STE and Grade 7-SPJ
Students of Carrascal National High School
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A research paper presented to:
Mr. Kim Buiquil

Research Teacher
Mr. Clint R. Orcejola

Research Adviser
Presented by:
Paul C. Cagande
Christine Eve R. Pebojot
Jana Carmila C. Cifra
Nevie Jane C. Hermina
Mae Dianne B. Rubi
Rica Mae Ladroma
Saren Buisa
Orly Orcinado
Patrick Geraldez
HUMSS 12 MATAPAT
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study

Social media is a form of electronic communication or websites for social networking
and micro blogging through which users create online communities to share information
and etc.(Paulus, 2006)
Nowadays social media is one of the useful sources of information of the students,
social media had been the source of happiness for many students, but being over
exposed to the social media can affect academic performance of the students also it may
lead the students to be irresponsible.
Aside from the academic performance of the students,social media can also affect
the students mental health. It is the responsibility of each students to bring about major
changes and the lives of the society as a whole through dedicated efforts. In line with the
uncertainties that the future beholds, the onus will be on students to do their studies and
be successful in the future. Nowadays, we observed that facebook is the commonly use
social media platform.
Researchers came up with the study to determine theres an impact of using social
media to the academic performance of Grade 7-STE and Grade 7-SPJ students of
Carrascal National High School.
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STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
This research aims to determine the impact of social media to the academic
performance of the students. It soughts to answer the following questions:
1. Is there a relationship between the academic performance of Grade 7-STE and

Grade 7-SPJ students of Carrascal National High School and the use of social
media ?
2. What are the average grades of Grade 7-STE and Grade 7-SPJ students of
Carrascal National High School ?
3. What is the most commonly used social media platform of Grade 7-STE and Grade
7-SPJ students of Carrascal National High School ?
ASSUMPTIONS
The researchers were guided with the following assumptions:
1. There is no relationship between using social media and the academic

performance of Grade 7-STE and Grade 7-SPJ students of Carrascal National
High School.
2. The average grades of Grade 7-STE and Grade 7-SPJ students of Carrascal
National High School are from average to high.
3. The most common social media platform used by Grade 7-STE and Grade 7-SPJ
students of Carrascal National High School is facebook.
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SCOPE AND DELIMITATION
The respondents of the study are the 25 students from Grade 7-STE and 25 students
from Grade 7-SPJ of Carrascal National High School.
IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDY
The research study will highly contribute to the following:
This study will help the teacher to determine if there’s an impact of social media to the
academic performance of the students.
The students will be aware if using social media can affect their academic performance.
The researchers will be more knowledgeable if theres no relationship between using

social media and the academic performance of the students.
This study will give the researchers interest to pursue their own research in the future. It
will serve as their basis for the study.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This study is a result of determination,inspiration and sacrifices.

This would not be possible without the join efforts of the members of the group. Mr Clint
Orcejola, our research adviser who always spare time for us to accomplish the study. To
Mr. Kim Buiquil for the guidance of the study. To the Grade 7-STE and Grade 7-SPJ
students for the participation to the survey. To our parents who give us support through
financial. To our fellow researchers who also help us through their given ideas. We could
not possible finish this study without them.
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REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

According to the Pew Research Center, social media user tend to be younger.
Nearly 90% of people between the ages of 18 and 29 used at least one form of social
media.
Social media is a computer based technology that facilities the sharing of ideas,
thoughts, and information through the building of virtual networks and communities. By
design, to social media is in internet based and gives users quick electronic
communication of content. Content include personal and information, documents,videos,
and photos. Users engage with social media via compuer table or smart phone via web-
based software or web application.
According to Brian Solis (June 28,2007) social media describes the online
technologies and practices the people use to share opinion, insights, experiences and
regards on perspectiveness.
The technological sections for educational scholarly purpose without an imperical
understanding and evaluation of the use in genders several piet falls and short coming
these danger are particularly relevant in the face of rejuvinated claims regarding the
potential of technological and scholarly innovations (Stafford and Bell 20 2012).
Through social media can increase student learning through student interactions,
challenges arise when social media are incorporated into an academic course. Arnold
and Paulus (2010) Found that even when social media is used for an educational
purpose, students incorporated the technology into their lives in a way that may differ
from the intentions of the course instructor. (Hurt etal, 2012: Patera et al, 2008). Another
reason for this may be that students who spend more time on social media may have
difficult balancing their online activities and their academic preparation. Social media can
also be a challenging instructional strategy to incorporate because it attempts to balance
through social media supports more of constructivist approach to learning, where

students and educators can work together to co-create understanding of a particular topic,
rather than an approach that emphasizes individual contributions ( Stevens, 2009). As a
result,students and educators become equal participants in the knowledge sharing
process. Though this seems beneficial for creating and disseminating knowledge, social
media can also become a primary concern.
Researchers found out that students is more likely to spend their time on social
media than study their lessons. Likewise, parents know that
Computers are important for their children’s school work, but may worry that the attraction
of social media pulls away students away from studies. The professor of University of
New Hampshire Chuck Martin, said that the students have grown up with t social media.
In this study the researchers are going to examine what are the impact of social media to
the academic performance of Grade 7- STE and Grade 7-SPJ students of Carrascal
National High School.
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DEFINITION OF TERMS
Social Media – forms of electronic communication ( as Web sites for social networking
and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information,
ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos).
Academic Performace- refers to how students deal with their studies and how they cope
with accomplish different task given to them by their teachers.
INTERNET- is based on a technological platforms that gives to the users quick electronic
communication of content that include information documents and personal information,
videos, photos, and etc.
VIRTUAL NETWORKING- is a technology that facilitates data communication between

two or more virtual machines (VM). It is similar to traditional computer networking but
provides interconnection between VMs, virtual servers and other related components in
a virtualized computing environment.
TECHNOLOGY- the use of science in industry, engineering, etc.,to invent useful things
or to solve problems.
IMPACT- a powerful or major influence or effect.
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DEDICATION
This piece of work is heartily dedicated to the respondents

who participate to the conducted survey, to our parents,
to our teachers, to our selves and above all
to our almighty God Jesus Christ.
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INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT
Conducted a survey
The Impact of Social
The grades of the Grade
Media to the Academic
7-STE and Grade 7-SPJ (QUESTIONNAIRE) Performance of Grade 7
Students of Carrascal
STE and SPJ Students
National High School.
of Carrascal National
High School
This study wanted to know the impact of social media to the Academic
Performance of Grade 7 STE and SPJ student of Carrascal National High School. In
order for us to know the impact, we conducted a survey with a provided questionnaire.
In the questionnaire, we ask the grades of the students.
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ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is to examine if theres an impact of using social media to the
academic performance of the Grade 7- STE and Grade 7- SPJ students of Carrascal
National High School. 5 quesstions and 3 assumptions guided the study. To achieve this,
the descriptive and correlational method was adopted. The study focus on 50 total
respondents. The researchers found out that theres no relationship between using social
media and to the academic performance of the students, theres no impact of using social
media to the academic performance of the students.
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CHAPTER II
METHODS AND PROCEDURES
Research Design
This study is a descriptive and correlational method. This method is considered as an
descriptve method because it allows the researcher to identify the characteristics of an
observed phenomenon and collecting more information. Also it is considered as an
correlational method because it examines the relationship between two or more variables.
Locale and Population

This research is intended only for Grade 7-STE and Grade 7-SPJ students of Carrascal
National High School. There are 25 participants in Grade 7-STE and 25 participants also
in Grade 7-SPJ students. The total population of the respondents are 50.
Ethical Considerations
The researchers considered the decision of the students if they are willing to answer
the questionnaire that has been provided.
The resarchers considired the proper communication to the respondents.
The researchers considered the respondents identity.
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CHAPTER III
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
Table 1.Do use social media ?

YES NO
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From table 1, it shows that 100% of the respondents are using social media.
Table 2. What kind of social media platform do you usually use ?

FACEBOOK TWITTER
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From table 2, it shows that 100% of the respondents are commonly using social media.
Table 3.How many hours do you spend in using social media per day ?
RESPONDENTS HOURS SPEND IN USING SOCIAL
MEDIA
Student 1 4 hrs.
Student 2 3 hrs.
Student 3 3 hrs.
Student 4 3 hrs.
Student 5 3 hrs.
Student 6 3 hrs.
Student 7 3hrs.
Student 8 3hrs
Student 9 4hrs.
Student 10 4hrs.
Student 11 3hrs.
Student 12 3hrs.
Student 13 2hrs
Student 14 2hrs
Student 15 2hrs.
Student 16 1hr.
Student 17 4hrs.
Student 16 3hrs.
Student 17 3hrs.
Student 18 2hrs.
Student 19 4hrs.
Student 20 1hrs.
Student 21 3hrs.
Student 22 4hrs.
Student 23 3hrs.
Student 24 3hrs.
Student 25 3hrs.
Student 26 4hrs.
Student 27 3hrs.
Student 28 3hrs.
Student 29 3hrs.
Student 30 1hr.
Student 31 3hrs.
Student 32 2hrs.
Student 33 2hrs.
Student 34 3hrs.
Studenr 35 4hrs.
Student 36 3hrs.
Student 37 3hrs.
Student 38 3hrs.
Student 39 3hrs.
Student 40 4hrs.
Student 41 2hrs
Student 42 3hrs
Student 43 2hrs
Student 44 3hrs.
Student 45 3hrs.
Student 46 3hrs.
Student 47 3hrs.
Student 48 3hrs.
Student 49 1hr.
Student 50 3hrs.
From Table 3, it shows that 100% of the respondents are spending 1-4 hours in using
social media per day.
Table 4. What is your average grades ?

RESPONDENTS AVERAGE GRADES
Student 1 85
Student 2 86
Student 3 86
Student 4 87
Student 5 87
Student 6 87
Student 7 87
Student 8 87
Student 9 87
Student 10 87
Student 11 87
Student 12 87
Student 13 87
Student 14 88
Student 15 88
Student 16 88
Student 17 88
Student 18 88
Student 19 88
Stuent 20 88
Student 21 88
Student 22 88
Student 23 88
Student 24 88
Student 25 88
Student 26 89
Student 27 89
Srudent 28 89
Student 29 89
Student 30 89
Student 31 89
Student 32 89
Sudent 33 89
Student 34 89
Student 35 89
Student 36 89
Student 37 89
Student 38 90
Student 39 90
Student 40 90
Student 41 90
Student 42 90
Student 43 91
Student 44 91
Student 45 91
Sudent 46 91
Student 47 91
Student 48 92
Student 49 92
Student 50 96
From Table 4, it shows the average grades of the respondents, the grades are in ordered
from average to high.
Table 5
RESPONDENTS AVERAGE GRADES USING SOCIAL MEDIA
OR NOT
Student 1 85 1
Student 2 86 1
Student 3 86 1
Student 4 87 1
Student 5 87 1
Student 6 87 1
Student 7 87 1
Student 8 87 1
Student 9 87 1
Student 10 87 1
Student 11 87 1
Student 12 87 1
Student 13 87 1
Student 14 88 1
Student 15 88 1
Student 16 88 1
Student 17 88 1
Student 18 88 1
Student 19 88 1
Student 20 88 1
Student 21 88 1
Student 22 88 1
Student 23 88 1
Student 24 88 1
Student 25 88 1
Student 26 89 1
Student 27 89 1
Student 28 89 1
Student 29 89 1
Student 30 89 1
Student 31 89 1
Student 32 89 1
Student 33 89 1
Student 34 89 1
Student 35 89 1
Student 36 89 1
Student 37 89 1
Student 38 90 1
Student 39 90 1
Student 40 90 1
Student 41 90 1
Student 42 90 1
Student 43 92 1
Student 44 91 1
Student 45 91 1
Student 46 91 1
Student 47 91 1
Student 48 91 1
Student 49 92 1
Student 50 96 1
From Table 5, it shows the respondents average grades and if they are using social
media. 1 stands for YES they are using social media.
REPONDENTS AVERAGE USING SOCIAL HOURS SPEND

GRADES MEDIA OR NOT IN USING SOCIAL
MEDIA
Student 1 85 1 4 hrs.
Student 7 87 1 3hrs.
Student 8 87 1 3hrs
Student 13 87 1 2hrs
Student 16 88 1 1hr.
From Table 6, it shows the respondents grades, if they are using social media and how
many hours they spend in using social media.
The researchers found out that the respondents are using social media and their most
commonly use social media platform is facebook, but their grades are good, therefore
theres no relationship between using social media and the academic performance of
Grade 7-STE and Grade 7-SPJ students of Carrascal National High School or in other
way theres no impact of social media to the academic performance of the respondents.
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CHAPTER IV
Summary
This study investigate the impact of social media to the academic performance of Grade
7-STE and Grade 7-SPJ of Carrascal National High School. The descriptive and
correlational method is adopted in the study. The study has 50 respondents, the
researchers investigate if theres an impact of social media to the academic performance
of the Grade 7-STE and Grade 7-SPJ students of Carrascal National High School. The
researchers conducted a survey with a provided questionnaire to get the information that
is needed to the study. The researchers found out that facebook is the common social
media platform that the respondents commonly use.
Conclusions
The researchers conclude that theres no relationship between using social media and
to the academic performance of the Grade 7-STE and Grade 7-SPJ students. Using
social media does not affect the academic performance of the students.
Recommendation
The researchers found out that theres no relationship between using social media and
to the academic performance of the students, therefore it is ok to use social media but
you must remember that theres some limitation in using it.
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APPENDICES
Answer the folowing questions.
1.Do you use social media ?

YES NO
2. What kind of social media platform do you usually use ?
Facebook Twitter
3.How many hours do you spend in using social media per day ?
Ans.
4.What is your purpose in using social media ?

Ans.
5.What is your average grades?

Ans.
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Acknowledgement.......................................................................................i
Dedication...................................................................................................ii
Abstract.......................................................................................................iii
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I-INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study..............................................................................1
Statement of the Problem and
Assumptions................................................................................................2
Scope and Delimitations and Importance of the
Study...........................................................................................................3
Definition of Terms......................................................................................4
Review of Related Literature.......................................................................5
Conceptual Framework...............................................................................6
CHAPTER II- METHODS AND PROCEDURES

Research Design, Locale and Population and Ethical
Considerations............................................................................................7
CHAPTER III-FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION............................................8
CHAPTER IV-SUMMARY,CONCLUSIONS, AND

RECOMMENDATIONS..............................................................................9
BIBLIOGRAPHY.......................................................................................10
APPENDICES............................................................................................11
DOCUMENTARY.......................................................................................12
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Republic of the Philippines

The Impact of Using Social Media to the Academic

Mr. Kim Buiquil

Mr. Clint R. Orcejola

Background of the Study

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

1. Is there a relationship between the academic performance of Grade 7-STE and

The researchers were guided with the following assumptions:

1. There is no relationship between using social media and the academic

SCOPE AND DELIMITATION

IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDY

The research study will highly contribute to the following:

The researchers will be more knowledgeable if theres no relationship between using

This study is a result of determination,inspiration and sacrifices.

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

through social media supports more of constructivist approach to learning, where

VIRTUAL NETWORKING- is a technology that facilitates data communication between

IMPACT- a powerful or major influence or effect.

This piece of work is heartily dedicated to the respondents

INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT

media to the academic performance of the students.

Locale and Population

The resarchers considired the proper communication to the respondents.

The researchers considered the respondents identity.

Table 1.Do use social media ?

Table 2. What kind of social media platform do you usually use ?

Table 4. What is your average grades ?

REPONDENTS AVERAGE USING SOCIAL HOURS SPEND

Answer the folowing questions.

1.Do you use social media ?

2. What kind of social media platform do you usually use ?

4.What is your purpose in using social media ?

5.What is your average grades?

CHAPTER II- METHODS AND PROCEDURES

CHAPTER III-FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION............................................8

CHAPTER IV-SUMMARY,CONCLUSIONS, AND

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