Effects of Extensive Usage of Gadgets to the Academic Performance of the Selected Grade 12 ABM Students in Bestlink College of the Philippines S.Y. 2018-2019

Abstract

In our present generation, students are obsessed in using Gadgets. They usually want to buy the latest release of these Gadgets to satisfy their desires in terms of entertainment and getting the newest model. As a result, students tend to involve gadgets in their everyday lives including in their studies. Students tend to use more time in using gadgets than on studying. This apparently affects the student's studying habits and academic performance. Gadgets affect the study habit of a student in many aspects in using gadgetsa students start becoming stupid, dependable, and careless and do all his or her work with the help of gadgets. He also becomes drowsy and wants to do all his work in shortcut. In this age of technology no part of life is deprived from the impact it has created on life pattern and so education is no exception. The researchers used Descriptive research design that will help to elaborate the effects of extensive usage of gadgets. This study aims to know what are the effects of extensive usage of gadgets. This study shown the result in academic performance for Attendance was Agree, that means it is one of the effects of extensive usage of gadgets. The result for Time spent using gadgets was Agree for the time 1-3 Hours, this means that some students were not using their gadgets extensively. And the result for the type of gadget usually used by the students is Cellphone that result was Agree and this means that this gadget affects some areas of academic performance. The results shows that the factors affecting the academic performance of Grade 12 ABM students were agree in variable Attendance. And in variable time, it shows that not all students used their gadgets extensively and lastly in variable type of gadgets, almost everyone agreed that cellphone is the most usual type of gadgets that students used.