The Effects of Social Media to the Academic Performance of Grade 11-Wisdom of School Year 2017-2018

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Nowadays, students are exposed in different social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the like. Social media technologies take many different forms including blogs, forums, video-sharing, social gaming and social networks. Social media help to express user's feelings online to create communication, it helps the institutions, business, charities, government and politics in so many ways. Excessive use can cause problems. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to know the effects of social media in the academic performance of the students. Understanding the effects of this medium to academic performance will benefit the students, teachers, parents and future researchers in a way that can give them idea how social media can improve student's performance.

METHODS

Descriptive Researchdefined by John Dudovskiy (2018) was used in the study which aimed at casting light on current issues or problems. The use of social media is a current trend and issue therefore the researchers were expecting that there will be an observable effect to the student's academic performance. With these reasons, descriptive research design is appropriate for this study. Questionnaire was administered to the respondents of the study. The researchers used frequency and percentage distribution for statistical treatment.

RESULTS

It shows that female respondents are more inclined to use social media for academic purposes, resulting to 25% compared to males who have 2.5%, both came from the range of 91-95 rate of average grade. On the other hand, in terms of the social media that the respondents have used all respondents were using Facebook while Instagram had higher number of users compared to Twitter.

DISCUSSIONS

After looking at the data, the researchers concluded that social media really take part in student's academic performance. The researchers weren't able to include YouTube as a social media platform. The research can be further expanded by including YouTube and its effects to the academic performance. The researchers recommended to let the students use their mobile devices during class hours for academic purposes only and to get access in the school's Wireless Fidelity Connection (wifi).