The Relationship Between Social

Media and Academic Performance

among Grade 11 students Evening
Class of Assumption College of Davao

RESEARCHERS:
AIREN D.
MANGUIOB
APRIL MAE A.
MINGUILLAN
ALEXA BEA R. SECRO
RATIONALE RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
1.To identify the Social Media Platforms that the student frequently use
in terms of:
The world today is a global market in 1.1 Facebook
which the internet is the most important 1.2 Twitter
sort of information. The educational
system is faced with so many challenges 2.To determine the level of Academic Performance of the students in
which have certainly brought about a terms of:
rapidly decline in the quality of
2.1 Accomplishment of Learning Adjectives
education. There is a deviation,
2.2. Acquisition of Skills and Competencies
distraction and divided attention 2.3. Satisfaction
between social networking activities and 2.4. Persistence
their academic work.
3.To distinguish the significant relationship between Academic
Performance and Social Media

HYPOTHESIS
The students’ frequent use to Social Media has no significant effect on their Academic
performance.
 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

Time Displacement Theory (Mutz, Roberts & van Vuuren, 1993),Increased time for a particular activity
will displace other activities. Social information processing theory by Joseph Waither (1992) it explains
online information.

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK REVIEW RELATED LITERATURE

The direct connection between the use

of social media and the academic success of
ACADEMIC
learners has been the subject of extensive
PERFORMANCE
SOCIAL literature over the past two decades
MEDIA (Aghaunor & Ekuobase, 2015). In contrast to
RELATIONSHIP
 Accomplishment of
non-users, social media users devote less
Learning Adjectives
time to their studies and then get lower GPAs
 Acquisition of skills and
 Facebook (Kirschner & Karpinski, 2010). Hasnain,
competencies
 Twitter Nasreen and Ijaz (2015) results of a study
 Satisfaction
showed that the social media use has an
 Persistence
inverse association with student academic
success.
SIGNIFICANCE OF
THE STUDY

The study gathered from this research will benefit

the following; Teachers, Parents
students and future researchers

DEFINITION OF TERMS

 Social media
 Academic performance
RESEARCH DESIGN RESEARCH LOCALE

Non-experimental,
quantitative-correlational
design
POPULATION AND SAMPLE

The researchers will use the Universal Sampling Method or the Total Population sampling, a
type of non-probabilistic sampling the researchers considered to use as it fit the study and
using it would help get a more accurate result and to the questions the research seeks to
answer.

RESEARCH INSTRUMENT

The questionnaires were adopted from Kolan,& Dzandza (2018) , for social
media as independent variable and Osharive (2015) for academic performance
to the students as dependent variable.
 DATA CALLECTION

The data collection of this research study is to achieve the said objectives of the
study and to answer the questions and research was seeking to. This is to determine
the frequency use of the Social Media Platforms and the Academic Performance of
the Grade 11 Evening Class students. The researchers will be observing the following
steps for data collection of the study.

STATISTICS TOOL

 Pearson (r.) or Pearson Product Moment Correlation

Coefficient
 Mean
 Deviation
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