SAN MATIAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

L. Gomez Subd. San Matias, Sto. Tomas, Pampanga

Effects of Mobile Phone Usage to the Academic Performance of the

Grade 12 San Matias National High School Senior High School
Students

A Senior High School Research

Presented to
San Matias National High School – Senior High School Department
San Matias, Sto. Tomas, Pampanga

In Partial Fulfillment
Of the Requirements for the Subject
PRACTICAL RESEARCH 2
S.Y. 2018-2019

Manansala Johndel
Pangilinan Kemuel
Laxamana Danny
Riclloyd Flores
Maniego Micol

October 2018
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APPROVAL SHEET

This research entitled “The Effects of Mobile Phone Usage to the

Academic Performance of the Grade 12 San Matias National High
School Senior High School Students” prepared and submitted by
Danny Laxamana,Riclloyd Flores,Kemuel Pangilinan,Micol
Maniego,Johndel Manansala in a partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the subject Practical Research 2 S.Y. 2018 – 2019 has been
examined and recommended for acceptance and approval for Research
Colloquium.

Ma. Teresa P. Bautista, MA Ed.

Research Adviser

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Accepted and approved in partial fulfillment of the

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TABLE OF CONTENT

Title Page………………………………………………………………….1
Approval Sheet……………………………………………………………2
Table of Content……………………………………………………....….3

Chapter 1: The Problem and Its Background

I. Introduction………………………………………….................4
II. Conceptual Framework……………………………………….8
III. Statement of the Problem……………………………………8
IV. Scope and Delimitation……………………………………...10
V. Significance of the Study…………………………………….10
VI. Definition of Terms…………………………………………...11
VII.Review of Related Literature………………………………..11
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Chapter 1

Problem and its background

Introduction

Globalization has changed our lives and one of the ways in which it is

changing our lives, everyday, is how we communicate; thanks to advancements

in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). One of the ICT’s which is

seeing rapid advancement is Mobile Phone. Mobile phone is popular since the

late 1990s (Meek, 2006) and today, with 7 billion mobile connections worldwide

and unique mobile subscriptions of over 3.5 billion (Twum, 2011), they are very

popular with young people and are commonplace in our educational institutions.

These phones are no more just voice communication tools. Functions like short

message service (SMS) or texting have become global phenomenon. Not many

of us keep wallet photos of loved ones. Now we save photos in our mobile

phones, and view them on a touch of the screen.

Mobile phones have become an almost essential part of daily life since

their rapid growth in popularity in the late 1990s, Ling (2004). A nationwide survey

conducted in 2010 shows that mobile phones are the most necessary medium of

communication for adolescents. It has virtually affected the society’s accessibility,

security, safety and coordination of business and social activities and has hence

become a part of culture of the whole world. Ling (2004), states that traditional

agents of socialization are families and schools. With the expansion of

educational system as a result of the need for highly skilled workers lead to the

school system taking increasing larger responsibilities in socialization.

Surprisingly, research on the influence of mobile phone on our schools today has
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not been given much attention. There is the conflicting priority of young people,

parents and teachers in relation to the mobile phone device, with teachers more

concerned about issues such as discipline in the classroom and parents worried

about means of contacting their children at every point in time.

Researchers have discovered that the use of mobile phone in schools is

problematic. As Ling and Helmerson (2000) states, the mobile phone is “at cross

purpose with the mission of the school”. While in school students are supposed

to take on their prescribed roles as students with full concentration on their

studies and free from contact with the outside world. However, the mobile phone

gives room to blending students’ roles with other roles thus distracting and

disrupting the students’ academic work(Gergen, 2002). In the past when fixed

telephones were the norm in schools, there were minimum distractions and

disruptions. Thus, the mobile phone has the power to undermine the schools’

authority and weaken their control over students as well as affects their level of

academic performances.

The recent technological advancements, the innovation of computer and

other discoveries in the field of information technology bring about the

introduction of the mobile phone and its multi functions ranging from voice calls,

messaging, data use, multimedia, games (both online and offline) and other

social media services(Venoye, 2008). The mobile phone is used as means of

interactions among people in which they create, share, and exchange information

and ideas in virtual communities and networks(Blumstock& Eagle, 2010). It also

uses a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and

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technological foundations of Web 2.0 that allows the creation and exchange of

user-generated contents(Mayer&Mereno, 2003). Furthermore, the mobile phone

is used for storing different contents on the micro SD cards or the phones’ internal

memory (Meek, 2006).Over the past decade, technology has become

increasingly important in the lives of adolescents. As a group, adolescents are

heavy users of newer electronic communication forms such as instant

messaging, e-mail, browsing, uploading and downloading, games and text

messaging, as well as communication-oriented Internet sites such as blogs,

social networking, and other sites for sharing photos, videos and ideas, all of

which is as a result of the mobile phone.

Internet access has exposed many adolescents to different kinds of

contents. Just of recent, the availability of different kinds of affordable and

inexpensive android mobile phones made it very easy for the adolescents to have

access to different types of social media and pornographic sites where they

access, download, exchange and watch pornographic films of different sexual

orientations from all over the world. The situation is worsened by the ignorance

and carefree attitudes of parents who are mostly oblivious of and careless about

these adolescents’ needs and challenges. Also, guidance and counseling

services are either absent or inactive in most schools and the school teachers

are not helping the situation (Taylor & Harper 2003). Most youths of today are

highly influenced and so much affected by what they watch on these social media

sites over the internet that one can easily see the consequences in their

academic performance and life styles. The continuous downwards spiraling in

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academic performance, the rise in cases of drop-outs, the increase in most of the

unacceptable, immoral, and antisocial behaviors perpetrated by students in

secondary schools today, which include truancy, massive failures, exam

malpractices, improper dress codes, indiscriminate sexual relationships with

opposite as well as same sex and most violent behaviors, can mainly be

attributed to the influence of the mobile phone.

Students are more likely to engage in rich technology interactions when

they are outside the classroom (Haythornthwaite & Andrews, 2007) in order to

supplement what has already been taught in class. According to Prensky (2005),

mobile phone technologies are not only used in communicating with others but

are actually computers that are small as well as portable and students carry this

technology wherever they go, therefore these technologies can be used for

learning purposes. Educators need to realize that today's students have these

mobile phone technologies and it has become central to their lives, so the best

thing is to integrate these devices into teaching and learning.

Mobile phone technology is a necessity in a student's life and also an

important technological device to them. They are basically used for making and

receiving calls, text, and picture messaging and accessing the internet. Today's

students are extremely competent in the use of mobile phones (Haythornthwaite

& Andrews, 2007). Students consider these devices as a pleasant, individual

possession in which no other device is observed. The Researchers are

conducting this study to investigate how mobile phone usage influences the

academic performance of students.

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Conceptual Framework

The researchers will be distributing questionnaire’s for gathering the

needed information.

Input Process Output

Age
The Effect of
Sex A quantitative Mobile Phone
research design Usage to the
Length of time the
respondents use using a survey Academic
their mobile phones questionnaire Performance of
Students and its
suggested
solutions

Figure 1. The Paradigm of the Study

Statement of the Problem:

This study aims to know the effect of mobile phone usage to the students

of San Matias National High School Grade 12 Animation

Specifically,this study was designed to answer the following questions:

1. What is the demographic profile of the students in terms of:

1.1. Age

1.2. Sex

1.3. Grade and Section

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2.What are the effects of Mobile Phone usage to the academic performance of Grade

12 – Animation at San Matias National High School?

Scope and Delimitation

This study is mainly focused,concerned and limited to only the effect of

Mobile Phone Usage to the Students of San Matias National High School Grade

12 Animation.

Significance of the Study

This study will be valuable and significant to students, parents, teachers and

future researchers.

Students. This study is primarily important to students, for it will give them

information about the effects they may get from mobile phone usage

Parents. This study will help the parents to have enough knowledge about the

effects of mobile phone usage among their children.

Teachers. This study will help the teachers to have a better understanding about

the effects of mobile phone usage and how to prevent them from happening to

their students.

Future Researchers. This may serve as a basis for future research that they will

conduct.
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Definition of Terms

Truancy - staying away from school without a valid reason

Globalization - spreading influence of a business

Undermine - damage or weaken the reputation of someone or something

Innovation - a new method or idea

Multimedia - content that uses a combination of different content forms such as

text, audio, images, animations, video and interactive content.

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Related Review Literature

This study will be used to serve as a basis for our research. Some of the

common mobile phone related research topics include cell phone use while

driving (Caird, Willness, Steel, and Scialfa, 2008; Horrey and Wickens, 2006;

McCartt, Hellinga, and Braitman, 2006), cell phone etiquette (Lipscomb,

Totten, Cook, and Lesch, 2007), cell phone cultures and behaviors (Campbell

and Park, 2008; Bakke, 2010; Ling, 2004), text messaging (Pettigrew, 2009),

health risks from cell phone radiation. Some other studies reported that the

presence of cell phones provide a higher sense of security in potentially harmful

situations. This has contributed to an increase in cell phone value, leading

cell phone users to perceive cell phones as a must-have tool (Nasar, Hecht,

and Wener, 2007; Walsh et al., 2008). The use of Mobile Phones has also been

addressed with other focuses, such as enhancing Academic performance in

Education.

However, this study therefore seeks, to find out the impact of the use of

mobile phones on students performance. The study was carried out in order to

understand and bring to fore if the students’ academic performance is affected

due to the time channelled to the phone during class hours which has a

general perception as a medium of distractions to students.

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Research Methodology

Research Design

This research work adopted a quantitative research design with survey

questionnaire to find out the effect of mobile phones on student performance In

San Matias National High School

Area of the Study

This study was carried out in San Matias National High School.

Population and Samples

The population of the study were made up of one school and in a specific

class/section.

Research Instrument for Data Collection

Structured questionnaire was used to gather information from the

respondents.