Effects of Technology on the Academic Performance of

Grade 12 T.V.L. ICT Students in Don Pablo Lorenzo

Memorial High-School

Roel Albot

Alvar Ladja

Archie Talosig

Ej Kenneth Corpin

Ian Gabriel Ponce

Jelvint Saavedra

Junrey Sagadsad

Justine Benasa

Jomar Kyle Ibanez

DON PABLO LORENZO MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL

 
 Chapter 1

THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

Introduction

In our generation today, there’s no denying that technology such as phones, laptop and
computers has become a significant part of many people especially in student’s everyday lives.
But many of us are still wondering on how these technologies affects the student’s learning and
what are good and bad effects of it.

Modern technology has greatly improved people’s lives through different fields such as
medicines, work, industry and especially education. For the students, we know the benefits of
using technology such as making student more interested and excited about the lesson. It also
increased the student’s level of interaction and it brought us new perspectives and knowledge in
class. Also, the teaching strategies based on educational technology can be described as ethical
practices that facilitate student’s learning and boost their capacity, productivity, and performance.
Instructors are no longer limited to write in a plain paper or discuss the lesson in a white board,
but they can rely on our modern technologies that will enable them to make things easier.

In conclusion, technology is a versatile and valuable tool for teaching and learning and
becoming a way of life. Technology in the classroom is both beneficial to students and teachers.
It creates new ways of obtaining and presenting information and gives us new ways of analyzing
and understanding the world around us. These inspired the researcher to conduct a study about
technology. We focused on how students should interact to technology in order to attain learning
with the help of it.

Theoretical Framework

Over time, learning became easier and faster with the help of different tools and methods.
Blackboards have been used for at least a millennium, books and pamphlets have held a prominent
role in education. Now we have innovated technologies that can be used for quicker and easier
learning of every student.
 Educational Technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and
improving performance by creating, using and managing appropriate technological processes and
resources. According to David L. (2017) there are three (3) major educational theories, such as
Behaviorism, Cognitivism and Constructivism that widely implemented in education and greatly
linked to the development and utilization of the educational technology.

Cognitive theory is represented by Jane Piaget (1898-1980), Jerome Seymour Bruner

(1915) and David P. Ausubel (1918-2008). In education, cognitive developmental theory is to
develop students' capabilities of creative thinking, information analyzing, and problem-solving
through computer-assisted instruction. It concerns those mental processes that cannot be
observed through human beings’ problem solving process and human beings’ learning strategies.
It studies human brains’ thinking process. Cognitivists believe that a human being possesses
intrinsic modes of receiving, processing and utilizing information at different cognitive
development stages; advocate the study of people’s cognitive development processes and
models, and design different instructional programs based on one’s cognitive development needs
at different developmental stages.

Conceptual Framework

It shows the relationship between the variable of the study. The dependent variable is the
Effect of Technology in Academic Performance of the Senior High School student while the
independent variable is the Technology such as computers, laptops, cellphone, tablet and
internet. It tells about how the Academic performances of the students may be affected by the
technology.

 Statement of the Problem

The general problem of the study is: “How does the technology affect the student’s
Academic performance of Senior High School? Specifically, it sought to answer the following
questions.

1. How the technology may affect the student’s academic performance in terms of the following:

Students Name Age Sex Strand Rating Scale

 2. What is The Effect of Technology on the Academic performance of the Senior High

School students?

3. How does technology significantly affect the Academic performances of Senior High
School Students?

Hypothesis

1. There is a significant relationship between using technology and the Academic of

performance of the Senior High School Students in Don Pablo Lorenzo Memorial
High School

2. There is no significant relationship between using technology and the Academic of

performance of the Senior High School Students in Don Pablo Lorenzo Memorial
High School.

 Scope and Limitations of the Study

This study assessed the Academic performance of Senior High School Students in Don
Pablo Lorenzo Memorial High School during the school year 2022-2023.

This   study   focuses  only  to  the   Grade 12  students  of  Don Pablo Lorenzo Memorial
High School who are  using  technology,  are   the   subject  of   the investigation.  Same set of
questionnaires will be given to the respondents. It is limited  to the objective of the study since
the   researcher    only  wanted  to   determine   the   effects   of  using  technology   to    the
academic  performance  of    the  Senior   High   School students.  The attainment of this study is
dependent to the answers of the respondents.  The respondents are   composed of students in
TVL ICT course, in Don Pablo Lorenzo Memorial High School. The study will be conducted in
this school year 2022-2023.  The framework of this study doesn’t covered any changes or
progress in details and updated information beyond the said point.

 Significance of the Study

This research will help the researchers to determine and to know how the technology
affects the student’s Academic performance. It is hoped that the findings of this research
would be important to the following:

Students

It will help the students to acknowledge on how they should use the technological devices
to attain learning and to help them to improve themselves and participate actively, increase in
productivity and increased motivation.
Parents

They could help their child to use technology for academic or school purposes and they
could guide them and keep themselves involved, this way they could monitor their child in or out
of school.

 Teachers

It will help them to do some new strategies and   techniques   and   it can also aid teachers
in coming up with simple lessons plans or activities.

Researchers

This study will help the researchers to accomplish their requirements in their course. This
will also help them to understand the importance of knowing the effects of the technology on the
academic performance of a student.

Definition of Terms

In this study, the following terms were written to clarify the meanings of the words used
and to provide a frame of reference and a clear interpretation of the study.

Cognitivist - a person who believes or works in cognitive grammar.

Ethical - relating to moral principles or the branch of knowledge dealing with these

Millennium - a period of a thousand years, especially when calculated from the traditional date
of the birth of Christ.

Prominent –  important or famous.

Utilization - the action of making practical and effective use of something.

Valuable - a thing that is of great worth, especially a small item of personal property.

Versatile -  able to adapt or be adapted to many different functions or activities.

Technology - machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge.

Adequate - satisfactory or acceptable in quality or quantity.

Inferential Statistics - makes inferences and predictions about a population based on a sample

of data taken from the population in question.