Development of Comics Based on the Perception towards Social Media and Academic Performance among Grade Eleven students of Lutay Integrated School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Social media is extremely important to the lives of people especially for the students. Nowadays, students most of the times were occupied by social media and this result in non-ethical and inappropriate activities and accordingly, their performance in school were affected. They waste their time in updating their profile status while using social media. In this perspective, the researchers were motivated to develop comics based on the perception towards social media and academic performance among grade eleven students to guide them on the proper use of social media in an entertaining and informative approach.

METHODS

This study used descriptive-correlative research design. The statistical tools used were frequency count, percentage and Pearson r correlation. Using an adopted questionnaire, we conducted survey and focus groups with 30 grade eleven students, 14 male and 16 were female. Report cards were also used as basis for students' academic performance.

RESULTSAll grade eleven students of Lutay Integrated School are engaged in using social media, and Facebook is the most commonly used by them. Students perceived that the advantage of social media is to socialize and make new friends as well as collaborate with fellow students and study. On the other hand, it can reduce focus on studies. The more the students engage in social media, the less they perform in academic, is the disadvantage of social media. The level of the academic performance of the students belongs to satisfactory level (80-84). It shows that students still need to improve their academic performance to attain the very satisfactory level. Consequently, there is a strong positive relationship on the perception of the students on social media and their academic performance. The more time spent in social media, the lower the performance of the student in academic.

DISCUSSIONS

Based on the results of the study, the researchers developed comics as an intervention tool to disseminate and widen the ideas of the students about proper use of social media which affect their academic performance. Comics is developed to deal the predicament issues of using social media, the objective of this tool is to educate the learners through teaching them in maintaining proper online etiquette, and to provide them the advantage and disadvantage of excessive use of social media.