Common Cellphone Apps Preferred and Apps Programs of Senior High School Students

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The applications (Apps) that can be downloaded to smartphones or android phones are inventions that keep individuals connected to society, especially the Senior High School students that feel either cellphones or smartphones are an essentials to survive. Today, many students primarily uses smartphones for running apps but what are most common preferred apps of the Concepcion National High School Senior High School students. Students nowadays, are more engaged in using non-educational apps more than the educational apps that later on leads to a poor study habits poor academic performances.

METHODS

The statistical tools/method that were used to treat the data is Frequency and Percentage. This were used to measure the data gathered for the common preferred apps of the Senior High School students.

RESULTS

This study shows that 60% of respondents are male, most (63%) of the respondents are 16 -17 years old ,24 out of 30 respondents use Facebook as social media apps, 20% of the respondents preferred Mobile Legends as game apps, 27 out of 30 respondents preferred Meriam-Webster Dictionary as educational apps. Most of the respondents spent 3-4hours a day using social media apps, 14 out of 30 students spent 1-2 hours a day in using game apps, 15% of the respondents spent 1-2 hours per day in using educational apps, majority (85%) of the respondents uses social media apps for communicating and for fun, and 56% of the respondents engaged in social media apps to communicate with their friends, family and love ones.

DISCUSSIONS

Preferred cellphone apps of the respondents can affect their studies. Students are more engaged in using cellphone apps they are in studying. The result of the study showed that the respondents are easily tempted to use cellphone apps that they preferred (mostly social media apps to communicate and to monitor their love ones) than to do their academic tasks. Teenagers are curious of new things and bring a new set of attitudes and preference that separate them from their predecessors that is why they are not focused in one thing like studies.