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Acknowledgement
The completion of this school-based assessment would not have been possible without the assistance of
teachers who supervised this SBA and students who participated in the various tasks given throughout the
SBA, and for this I am truly appreciative for the cooperation given.

Content Page
Introduction 1

Statement of problem 2

Reason for choosing area and topic 3

Method of investigation 4

Data collection instrument 5

Procedure for data collection 9

Presentation of data 10

Analysis and Presentation of data 13

Findings 16

Recommendations 17
Introduction
Research was underdone to find out what type of effect / influence social media has on students at
President’s College. Social media is already sown into every child’s life, but what influence does this
topic have on the children using it? A research was undertaken to bring light onto this matter.

Statement Of Problem
The problem selected was “Does social media have an impact on the students at President’s College?
What impact does technology and social media have on the students and their self-esteem / emotions?
Reason for choosing area and topic
The problem stated was selected because social media already is a part of every student’s life whether for
better or worst. They were students having a conversation comparing each other and themselves to social
media influencers, which could possibly have a negative effect on their self-esteem but on the contrary,
they could also have a positive outcome. I will conduct an in-depth investigation to deduct what kind of
impact social media has on the students of President’s College.
The school of President’s College was selected, it’s an on school live in type campus and it is located in
Golden Grove, Guyana. It has a current population of 189 live in students due to the corona pandemic.
The school was selected because of conveniency, and it would produce the most accurate results in this
case scenario.

Method of Investigation
In order to conduct this survey with the best and most accurate results, the method of investigation chosen
was a “questionnaire”.
A questionnaire is a set of printed or written questions with a choice of answers, devised for the purpose
of a survey or statistical study.
The questionnaire has a plethora of advantages such as:

 It is inexpensive / not costly.

 All people being surveyed identities are anonymous.
  It is not time consuming.
 Gives accurate and precise data that has direct relation to the topic.

Data Collection Instrument

Cover Letter

Dear President’s College Students,

This survey was carried out to find out the impact social media has on the students of President’s College.
It is meant as a collective tool/utility to supplement the collection of data needed for the school-based
assessment (SBA). By design, the questionnaire is inherently anonymous, all questions are required to be
answered truthfully to produce the most accurate results. Thank you for your cooperation.
 Yours Sincerely,
Raphael Ferdinand

Questionnaire

1. Gender
☐Male
☐Female

2. Age
☐14-15
☐15-16
☐17-18

3. Ethnicity: _________________
4. Religion: __________________

5. Do you use social media?

☐Yes
☐No

6. Average amount of time spent on social media per day in hours:

☐1-2
☐2-4
☐4-6
☐6-8
☐8-10
☐10-12

7. Average amount of time spent studying per day in hours:

☐1-2
☐2-4
☐4-6
☐6-8
☐8-10
☐10-12

8. How often a week do you use social media?

☐1 Day
☐2 Days
☐3 Days
☐4 Days
☐5 Days
☐6 Days
☐7 Days

9. What social media apps do you mainly use?

☐Instagram
☐Facebook
☐What’s App
☐Messenger
☐Snapchat

10. In the best-case scenario, which task would you rather spend time doing?
☐Studying, doing school-based work.
 ☐Social Media

11. Which platform / mean of information influences you more?

☐Information learnt from school
☐Information learnt from social media

12. Do you think social media affects you in a un-healthy manner?

☐Yes
☐No
☐Maybe

13. What are some personal benefits you have gained from social media?
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________

14. Can you go a week without using social media?

☐Yes
☐No
15. How has social media affected your school life.
☐Improved It
☐Degraded It
☐Hasn’t affected it

16. Do you think social media can potentially improve your school life?
☐Yes
☐No
☐Maybe

17. Do you feel any emotional discomfort with yourself after using social media?
☐Yes
☐No

18. Does social media affect your personality in any way?

☐Yes
☐No

19. Has social media given you a confidence boost / make you gain self-worth recently?
☐Yes
 ☐No
☐Maybe

20. What are some methods you think students who have suffered with confidence loss / loss of self-
worth while using social media can use to cope?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

Procedure for data collection

In order to collect data for this SBA, a questionnaire was used, the questionnaire consisted of 15 questions
pertaining to the topic and 5 bio questions. This survey was underdone in President’s College which is
located in Golden Grove.
The questionnaire was distributed to 35 students consisting of both males and females, the students
selected were carefully chosen based on the most ideal situations which gives the most accurate
information, the questionnaires were received in a timely manner and the information was observed and
analyzed.
 Presentation Of Data

Pie chart showing: How social media effects students

Question Used: Do you Maybe Yes No
think social media has
affected you in a un-healthy
manner?
17%

50%

33%

FIG 1.0
 Cluster Column showing how social media affects student's life
Question Used: How has
social media affected your
school life?

Hasn't Effected it

Degraded It

Improved It

FIG 2.0

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

 BAR GRAPH SHOWING AMOUNT OF TIME SPENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA
6 Question used: Average
amount of time spent
on social media.

FIG 3.0
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Time Spent in Hours

Analysis and Interpretation of data

Question 1: It can be noted that out of the total 20 answers, 11 were females and 9 were males.

Question 2: It can be concluded that 83% of the respondents were between the age of 15-16 and 17%
were between the age of 17-18. There were more people around the age range of 15-16 making it the
majority.

Question 3: It can be noted that out of the students who responded to the questionnaire, most were
mixed, one was east Indian and one Chinese.

Question 4: It can be noted that most of the students were Christians and one atheist.

Question 5: All students who answered the questionnaire uses social media.

Question 6: Most students spent a total of two hours on social media per day, some spend 10 hours, and
one spends 7 and 5 hours respectively.

Question 7: Most of the students spent 3 hours studying per day and one spends 4 hours studying.

Question 8: 60% of students spend all week on social media whilst the others spend 5 days.

Question 9: All students use what’s App as their main social media platform.

Question 10: Most students would theoretically rather spend time studying than using social media but
still use social media more.

Question 11: It can be noted that both social media and schoolwork has an equal amount of influence
over students.
Question 12: Most students think that social media affects them in an un-healthy manner.

Question 13: All students had a different idea about the benefits of social media, and all were positive.
Question 14: Most students say they cannot go a week without using social media.

Question 15: Majority of the students think that social media has improved their school life.

Question 16: Half of the students think that social media can potentially improve their school life.

Question 17: Most the students said they feel emotional discomfort after using social media.

Question 18: All the students who answered the questionnaire said social media affected their
personality.

Question 19: Most students said social media may have given them a confident boost while the rest said
social media did the opposite.

Question 20: Each of the students had their won methods to deal with confidence loss from social media
and some may have been proven effective.

Fig 1.0
The chart from presentation of data was effectively analyzed, the graph analyzed was a pie chart which
represents the value of how social media effects different students individually. The question specifically
asked was “Do you think that social media has affected you in an un-healthy manner?”, and various
students gave their own outlook on this question, giving a generous amount of data for an accurate
analysis. From the data gathered, it can be confirmed that half of the respondents do not have a particular
outlook on the matter and 33% of the respondents think social media does indeed have a negative effect
on them, 17% disagree with this, and states that social media does not affect them in an un-healthy
manner, when the students who gave an unclear answer are removed, it can be stated that the majority of
students think that social media has affected them in an un-healthy manner.
Fig 2.0
This is a cluster column orientated in a rotated view, this diagram depicts how social media affect
student’s school life. Each student gave their opinion on the matter which gives enough data for an
accurate, informative analysis. Half of the students say that social media has improved their school life,
33% say that social media has degraded their school life and 17% say social media hasn’t affected their
school life. It can be stated that most students think social media improved their school life, it was a close
debate.

Fig 3.0
This diagram is a bar graph which represents the amount of time students spend on social media. Data
was collected from a generous number of students for the most accurate results. Most of the students
spend 9-10 hours on social media, the next immediate amount of people spends 7-8 hours on social media
and the minority spend 1-3 hours on social media. This has proven that students spend an un-healthy
amount of time on social media.

Findings
From the data gathered, the findings gained / observed, some conclusions were made.
Such as: Students spend an un-healthy amount of time on social media. Social media does indeed have a
negative effect on a student’s life but not as much as expected and on the contrary, it also has some
positive effects on a student’s life, example being it may give some people a confidence boost.
It was also observed that social media has the same amount of influence on student’s life as school does,
this is not particularly good and reflects poorly on students as the information learnt from school should
be prioritize and be the main influence on your own personal knowledge.
Recommendations
Students should overall lessen the time they spend on social media and put more time into their studies.
For those who suffer from a lack of self-esteem / confidence loss should have a social media lock off and
focus more on themselves as people.