Effects of Having Peers and its Impact on the Academic Performance of ABM Students in BCP SY 2018-2019

Abstract

Peers become an important influence on behavior during adolescence, peer conformity in young people is most pronounced with respect to style, taste, appearance, ideology, and values. Peer is commonly associated with episodes of adolescent risk taking (such as delinquency, drug abuse, and sexual behaviors). However, peers can also have positive effects when they are pulled to the positive side, teenager face many issues related to their academic performances, they are pulled between the desires of fitting in and standing out. Peers are commonly had among teenagers especially in their adolescent years, at this time teenagers start to experiment their socio-cultural behavior and their interpersonal skills. This study will tackle about how peers affect the academic performance of grade 12 student’s ABM in Bestlink College of The Philippines. The researchers chose survey and descriptive research design because it best served to answer the questions and the purposes of the study. The survey research is one in which a group of people or items is studied by collecting and analyzing data from only a few people or items considered to be representative of the entire group. In other words, only a part of the population is studied, and findings from this are expected to be generalized to the entire population. Out of 50 respondents who answered the survey, the researchers came up to the result that the respondents are Strongly Agree with weighted mean of 4.66 that peers/classmates can greatly affect them in terms of class performance. There's also negative effect which is called the "peer pressure" that encourage them to do negative things that affect their school performance. It may seem natural to assume that a student’s dependence affects his or her performance in school, but it is actually quite difficult to prove that so called “peers effects” occur systematically, as many other factors may affect in student’s academic performances and those factors, such as the teacher, the school and the home environment may vary in lockstep with the peer group making it difficult to isolate the influence of any given element. Peers can also have positive effect, friends often encourage each other, encourage other to do worst and they can also encourage to do goods. Teen might join a volunteer project because the social group he or she belongs to think that getting good grades is important. A positive peer group can help boost their self-esteem.