THE IMPACT OF INTERNET CONNECTIVITY & STABILITY ON

BSEE 2D STUDENTS ONLINE CLASSES

In Partial Fulfillment
Of the Requirements in
ENGINEERING DATA ANALYSIS

Submitted by:

Acosta, Fergus Jerome

Pascual, Jasmine M.
Pitpit, Kristine Joy C.
Taclan, Jonalyn S.
Racho, John Aaron F.

Submitted to:

Engr. Thomas Ubina

Math 50 Instructor

December 2020
 Introduction

The emergence of the Corona virus disease or what is commonly named as the COVID-19

impacted everyone various changes, challenges, and adaptations. The government therein decided to close

several establishments temporarily to adhere to the different guidelines for everyone’s health and safety.

The school had to shift to the new normal education system and the internet had become an essential role

to this online learning.

The internet is a technology that has become an enormous part of an individual’s daily life. For

over the last decades, the internet connectivity has improved tremendously and is easy, accessible, and

available everywhere such as at homes, offices, travels, and schools. Today, empirical studies report that

access to information can influence the academic performance of the students.

Moreover, empirical studies (e.g Adedotun, 2015; Akende & Bamise, 2017) reported that access

to information can influence the academic performance of the students. The use of credible internet

resources is of greater importance for academic study, especially in high class courses of which requires

an academic review of literature (Sahin et al., 2010).

However, as stated by Yusra & Lustari (2020), the Philippines is one of the countries with very

meager average internet speed (Salac, & Kim, 2016). This concern of teachers is valid in the sense that no

amount of preparation would cause success of online education if the internet connection is unstable and

erratic.

This concern drew much attention to the researchers in conducting the study on the impact of

internet connectivity & stability on BSEE 2D students at Mariano Marcos State University in online

classes to address the problems the students encounter in online education.

Significance of the study

This research work aimed to know the impact of the internet connectivity and stability of the

students and it also aimed to know how the study would help in the online education of the students. In

addition, this study may give guidance and further knowledge to schools and organizations to which ideal

learning system should be implemented for the next semester. Future researchers can make this a

benchmark or a basis for their future researches regarding the area of the topic. The findings of this study

will affect the society to its benefits considering that it will be able to suggest different impact of an

internet’s connectivity and stability that might be improved, innovated or changed.

Objectives:

General: This study aims to determine the various problems, issues, and concerns on the impact of

internet connectivity and stability to the BSEE 2D students of Mariano Marcos State University in relation

to the online classes.

Specific:

To identify:

1. The profile of the respondent.

2. Students’ internet connectivity and internet stability

3. Challenges in online class due to internet connectivity and stability

 Methodology

This chapter presents the method used and the procedures undertaken in the conduct of the study.

It includes the locale of the study, population and sampling technique, data gathering, and statistical tool

for data analysis.

Locale of the Study

The researchers chose that the target population for respondents in this study are the Second Year,

BS Electrical Engineering students of the section D of Mariano Marcos State University S.Y. 2019-2020.

Population and Sampling Technique

The researchers obtained the official roster of BSEE 2D students from the existing documents. The

targeted population of this study stated that there are 56 second year BSEE students of section D of

Mariano Marcos State University. Excluding the 5 members of the study leaves a final population of 51

students. The Slovin’s Formula was used to calculate the sample size (n) given the population size (N)

and a margin of error 7% (e). Computed as n=N/1+Ne2 :

51
Sample size = 1+51(0.07)2 = 40.80326

The researchers chose to utilize purposive sampling technique which is a method wherein the

researchers rely to own judgements to look for specific group of people to participate who possesses the

data needed regarding the study.

Data Gathering Instruments

The researchers chose online survey questionnaire in this study as their research instrument. The

surveys were floated online through the link made via Google Forms. The first section to be answered is
intended for the personal data of the respondents. The second section is a multiple-choice question letting

the respondents to choose only the most appropriate one for them among the multiple options. And, the

last section contains a dichotomous question that asks questions for a Yes or No answer in order to obtain

a clear and distinct data from the respondent. The respondents responded by will regarding their degree

of agreement with the statements contained in the instrument.

Data Gathering Procedure

The data were obtained from the online survey questionnaire answered by the 41 BSEE 2D

students of Mariano Marcos State University who were selected purposively that the researchers directly

contacted for the online distribution. The online survey questionnaire was floated to each respondent

which consists of 3 sections that were relevant to the study. The questionnaires were collected and the

data were tallied.

Statistical Treatment of Data

The data collected in this study were subjected to certain statistical treatments. Frequency counts

and percentages were used to describe the profile of the respondents. The data gathered through the online

survey questionnaire were subjected to be in mean or the respondents’ responses for each individual

question were added together. These responses to the questions, which are quantified, are then presented

in mean form with the Verbal Interpretation. This analysis is presented in tabular form.

n
Formula used: P= N × 100

Frequency- It is the rate which something occurs or is repeated over a particular period of time or of a

given sample.

Percentage- It is a number or rate that is expressed as a certain number parts of something divided into

100.
 Presentation, Analysis, and Interpretation of Data

This chapter presents the result and discussion of methods outlined in previous chapter. This

chapter includes the first original research questions that was present in the introduction of this study.

This chapter includes the analysis, presentation and interpretation of the findings resulting from

this study. The analysis and interpretations of data is carried in one phase, which is based on the results

gathered from the questionnaire, deals with a qualitative analysis of data.

Table 1: Frequency Distribution of the respondents on their socio demographic profile.

Profile Frequency (f) Percentage (%)
Age
19 13 31.71
20 25 60.97
≥21 3 7.32
Sex
Male 28 68.29
Female 13 31.71
A total of 41 respondents were retrieved of which 25 (60.97%) aged 20, 13 (31.71%) aged 19 and

3 (7.32%) are greater than or equal to 21 years of age. Majority of the respondents are 28 Male (68.29%)

and the rest are 13 Female (31.71%).

Table 2. Frequency Distribution of the respondents on their students’ connectivity and stability.

First Section Frequency (f) Percentage (%)

Cellphone 35 85.37

Desktop 0 0
Gadgets used in online classes
Laptop 6 14.63

Others 0 0

Globe 19 46.34

Internet/ telecommunication PLDT 6 14.63

service provider Smart 16 39.02

Others 0 0

Below 1 Mbps 14 34.15

1 to 5 Mbps 15 36.59
How fast is your internet
5 to 10 Mbps 6 14.63

Higher than 10 Mbps 6 14.63

Morning 18 43.90

Most relevant time to use the Afternoon 4 9.76

internet Evening 9 21.95

Dawn 10 24.39

Access to technology 31 75.61

Most likely to affect your online Finance 6 14.63

learning Location 0 0

Environment 4 9.76
 Data showed in the table 2 that the gadget that 85.37% of the respondent’s uses in online classes

are cellphones. 46.34% of the respondents have selected Globe as their internet/ telecommunication

service provider. Furthermore, 36.59% of them chose 1 to 5 mbps of the internet’s speed. In addition,

43.90% picked morning as their most relevant time to use the internet. And, 75.61% of the respondents’

online classes are affected by the access of technology.

Table 3: Frequency Distribution of the respondents for several circumstances during online classes.

Second Section Frequency (f) Percentage (%)

Yes 37 90.24
Attending synchronous classes
No 4 9.76
Yes 39 95.12
Experienced disconnection during virtual meetings
No 2 4.88
Yes 33 80.49
Reconnects after disconnection during virtual meetings
No 8 19.51
Yes 14 34.15
Participates well during synchronous classes
No 27 65.85
Yes 21 51.22
Copes up with synchronous class discussions
No 20 48.78

According to table 3, 90.24% of the respondents have been attending synchronous classes and

9.76% did not. 95.12% of them experienced disconnection during those virtual meetings and 4.88% did

not while 80.49% of them reconnects after a disconnection and 19.51% were not able to reconnect again.

Moreover, only 34.15% of the respondents said that they participate well while the other 65.85% said they

did not. And, 51.22% said yes as they can cope up with the discussions during synchronous classes and

48.78% said no as they cannot cope up with the discussions during synchronous classes.
 CONCLUSION

This section presents the conclusions that are formulated by the researchers in the study.

1. Socio-demographic Profile of the Students

On Age. Majority of the respondents are 25 students aged 20 years old (60.97%), 13 are aged 19 (31.71%)

and 3 are aged greater than or equal to 21 years old (7.32%).

On Sex. Majority of the respondents are 28 Male (68.29%) and 13 Female (31.71%).

2. Students’ internet connectivity and stability

On Gadgets Used for Online Class. Majority of the respondents use their cellphones for online classes

among them are 35 (85.37%) meanwhile 6 (14.63%) said that they use laptop in order for them to attend

their virtual classes.

On Internet Service Provider. Majority of the respondents, 19 (46.34%) are using Globe Telecom as

their internet service provider, 16 (39.02%) uses Smart and 6 (14.63%) of them are subscribing to PLDT

Inc. to gain access on internet.

On Internet Speed. Majority of the respondents, 15 (36.59%) have internet speed with a speed of 1 to 5

megabytes per second (Mbps), 14 (34.15%) experience internet speed of less than 1 Mbps, meanwhile 6

(14.63%) have speed of 5 to 10 Mbps and another 6 (14.63%) experience a net speed higher than 10 Mbps

upon accessing the internet.

On Relevant Time for Internet Usage. Majority of the respondents, 17 (43.90%) among them said that

they can access the internet the best in the morning, 10 (24.39%) at dawn, 9 (21.95%) in the evening and

only 4 (9.76%) experience the best internet connection in the afternoon.

On Factor Affecting Online Class Learning. Majority of respondents said that the access to technology

is most likely the one to affect their learning capacity in online classes and it is 31 (75.61%) of them. On

the other hand, 6 (14.63%) of them said that it’s about the financial issues that affect their learning, and 4

(9.76%) claimed that it is on their environment.

3. Challenges encountered during online classes

Among the 41 respondents, study found that only 37 (90.24%) of them can attend synchronous

classes meanwhile the remaining 4 (9.76%) of the student-respondents cannot. Even majority of them can

attend synchronous classes which is 39 (95.12%) of the sample size said that they always got disconnected

during virtual meetings and only 2 (4.88%) are consistently connected all throughout the virtual class.

With these, three parameters were used to determine what is intervening their performance on online

Through this, two parameters were set to determine intervening factors on their performance during

synchronous classes which refer to their coping and participation status, thereby showing that this 33

students which is 80.49% of the sample size said they can reconnect just after disconnection 8 (19.51%)

cannot leads the students to struggle in participating as the study showed that 27 (65.85%) admits that

they can’t do so. However, 21 (51.22%%) said that they are capable of coping up to the discussions made

during real-time meetings with their respective instructors and 20 (48.78%) said otherwise. As compared

to 14 (34.15%) of the students who claimed that they can still participate well despite of the occurrence

of disconnection-reconnection circumstances, is quite large of a difference to those who said that they

can’t participate well. Thus, researchers conclude that internet connectivity and stability influence the

students’ coping and participation status with regards to online classes.