Mobo National High School

Effects of Internet Use on

Academic Performances of
Mobo National High School`s
Students

Loraine Ann T. Gamora

12- Zeus
 Acknowledgement

We would like to extend our greatest genuine gratitude for our teacher Mrs. Thank you

for believing in our research. We truly appreciate your guidance, support, and words of

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this work.

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expressive and perfect timely suggestions. Also, your interest in our work kept us motivated and

deep to study the research problem more.

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 I. INTRODUCTION

Background of the study

The Internet represents the greatest collection of human knowledge and has enabled many

communities in the world to manage communication and solve problems faster than other

communities. The internet is one of the most powerful information tools present in the world

today. The internet is regarded as one of humanity`s greatest gifts, and in the last 10 to 15 years,

it has spread rapidly throughout the globe. With the internet access in education, a wide range of

ideas, teaching and learning resources, techniques and innovations have been widely shared.

There are numerous benefits to using the internet for students, and it has proven to be one of the

best place to learn. Academic achievement or academic performance is the extent to which a

student, teacher or institution has attained their short or long –term educational goals.

Completion of educational benchmarks such as secondary school diplomas and bachelor`s

degrees represent academic achievement. The student`s assessment is based on the scores or

grades achievement in the different study courses during the school and college years. The

measurement of student`s academic achievement in the basis of formative and summative

evaluation. Intellectual ability and skills of students reached in the academic context. Students

can easily search for relevant information they require on the internet. Before the spread of the

internet, students had to go through many books to find the information they needed, which was

a time taking process. Things are now faster easier because there are numerous websites that

provide important information that can help students with their academic work and assignments.

This also helps students remain up to date with the latest information.
Statement of the Problem

This study generally aims to determine the Effects of Internet Use on Academic

Performances of Mobo National High School`s Students.

Specifically, this study shall seek answers to the following question:

1. What is the effect of internet to your studies?

2. What are the benefits of internet to your studies?

3. What are the disadvantages of using internet to your academic performances?

4. What are the possible solution to maintain the positive outcome when using internet?

Significance of the Study

This study generally aims to determine the Effects of Internet Use on Academic

Performances of Mobo National High School`s Students.

Benefiting the study are the various sectors as follows:

The Students

This research will help students to understand the effects of Internet use to their academic

achievement. And it will also provide ways and answers to their problem.

The Teachers

This study will make teachers realized what the students going through with dealing

their academic achievements using internet.

The Researchers

This research will serve as an eye-opener to the researchers point-of-view about

students who can`t study well and how they manage to achieve their goals using internet.

The Parents

This study will benefits parents of the students who struggle for their academic

achievement. For the parents to be aware that there should be guidance of the parents to make

sure that using internet really help their children with their studies.

The School Administration

This study will make the school administration realize that they are not only one

who is dealing with this new era of technology but also the students. And that they can do

something to alleviate problem of the students.

SCOPE AND DELIMITATION

The general intent of this study is to know the effects of Internet use to the Academic

Achievement of Mobo National High School students.

This study will identify the effects of internet use to the academic achievement of a

student. And also this study decides to make students realize that using internet have good and

bad effect for our academic achievement. This study will delimit the junior high school; the SHS

who are not students of Mobo National High School; and students who doesn`t use internet.

This study will be conducted with limited amount of financial resources and time

framework.
 CHAPTER 2

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

This chapter presents the related literature and studies after the thorough and in-depth

search done by the researchers. The focus of this is the effect of internet use to the academic

achievement of the students. Using internet can have both good and bad effect for us to achieve

our academic goal. Even we uses minimal resources we will still achieve good results.

The internet is a platform where millions of people engaged in the creation and exchange

of information. Indeed, this fact affects a large and deep to academic achievement and social life.

By this, a review of the literature was carried out to explore and investigate the effect of using

internet on academic achievement of the students. It is very important for the researcher to see

how the authors see the use of the internet and its impact on students. In addition, it aimed at

how digital online can help students in their academic. The researcher also wants to see how well

the student learning process becomes effectively by using the internet as a source of reference

information. Furthermore, this literature review is to look at the positive and negative effects of

internet usage in the learning process. Therefore, this literature review will attempt to provide a

better understanding of the effect of the internet on their academic achievement and look for any

obstructions to academic achievement.

In quantitative studies has found that teachers and scholars have been using the internet to

support their research and teaching. By the use of the internet, it`s had a positive impact on their

academic performance, namely by writing research papers further help in doing better research

and also provide better learning experience. (Sampath et al., 2013) The more time spent with the
internet, the higher a student addicted to the internet. The study showed that the time spent on the

internet is becoming a measure of academic achievement. The use of the internet beyond the

time will not be a hint of academic success. (Sushma et al., 2014)

The use of social media technologies widely used by students can have a positive impact

on students and a key factor for the students in achieving summative grade and left the course

early. (Garcia et al., 2015) Besides, the use of Facebook by students adversely affecting their

academic performance. These negative effects are more to male students. This is based on the

behavior of male students are more active and spend a lot of time on Facebook makes them

unable to focus on their academics. (Ahsan Ul Haq & Sohail Chand, 2012) Moreover, a research

argued that many students use Facebook with an extroverted personality can lead to poor

academic achievement. It indicates that the personality of a person while using Facebook play

role whether the academic performance can be achieved or not. (Rouis, S. et al., 2012)

Online media used in teaching are efforts to make improvements or to enhance the

quality of teaching and learning process. In addition, the online media has the advantage of being

able to combine a variety of different media such as text, images, animations, video and sound.

Among media online for education used is like watching news online and view videos related to

subjects, while for media online for non-education which is entertainment that is like a video

game online. If seen, online media is interactivity where the user does not obtain or communicate

in one way only, but users can communicate bilaterally in obtaining information, and also carry

out activities. To find out more about online media that are used for educational and non-

educational, there are several review of previous studies.

The online media have a negative effect on students. This is based on studies that have

been done by the researcher about the online video game which it is a type of online media non-
education, this online media negatively affect academic achievement. (Anand, 2007) The decline

of student`s academic achievement is due to the application of synchronous communication such

as chat rooms, which can lead students to stay up late at night and cause their academic

achievement decline. (Kubey et al., 2001) Therefore it can be said online media use affects

academic performance. The social media has negative effect on student`s academic performance.

(Asemah et al., 2013) While, A research shows that facts about the electronic media the

authorized agent socialization and realize it can educate the public and it can help students in

their lessons better than any other. (Shakir, U. et al., 2013)

The interest of a student to the school when the student is willing to involve themselves

in the learning process to meet the learning needs of daily living such as doing assignments and

attending classes. (Rouis, 2012) initiation and participation in this study had to do with the

internal pleasure derived from membership in a group and also invited the students to learn to

meet their needs of the class. Therefore, the higher the desire of students to the school, will

improve their academic achievement. In regard, this study shows that students who do not

express a desire to learn will get a low grade in their academic performance.