CHAPTER 1

The Problem and Its Setting

Background of the Study

Social Media has globally become a very helpful tool in different fields. It has linked

people to the Cyber World wherein everything is possible. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and

many more are some of the Social Medias that peak the High Rise domination. The existence of

this Social Medias not only connects people to the other side of the world, but it also widens

Business Careers, Job Opportunities, Relationships, and Education. The world has gotten

technologically advance because of this. In our school, Technology Advancement is strongly

inculcated to the students. However, allowing students to use cell phone to surf the internet for

research purposes that is related to the subject has been abused. Students are more frequent in

using phones to access social media such as Facebook. It has become problem in our school

because students’ too much exposure on Social Media diminished their study habit. In Facebook

as the most popular social networking site, Job hiring often calls attention for the unemployed to

really grab the chances; business is quite boosted and promoted rather than endorsing in malls

and television; relationship is vastly prominent for two strangers meet up; Education expands in

pages and group chats wherein assignments and group task were sent. The statistical data showed

that there are more than 500 million people with Facebook membership and the majority of them

are members of other social networking sites besides approximately 250 million of these

memberships visit Facebook site in each day at least one time (Boyd & Ellison, 2007). But, for

students in our school it was used as wall for resentments, bullying, dating and etc. Instead of

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spending lots of time for study, they spent more on Social Media. In other words, students

preferred surfing the Internet to access Social Media than studying.

Social media has really become an integral part of people in daily lives (Boyd & Ellison,

2007; Hakoyama & Hakoyama, 2011). Raacke & Raacke-Bonds (2008), Williams & Merten

(2009) and Raffterty (2009) indicated that people have a social networking sites account based

on difference reasons (making new friends, following famous people, sharing personal

information, commenting the events, etc.).

Pedagogically, Social Media subjugates students’ mind-set through misleading usage and

unprecedented guidance. They spend most of their time checking accounts, liking others’ post,

poking somebody, posting nonsense and many more. For that reason, they’ll disregard to check

their notes on what to study. Wang, et al. (2011) showed that children spent plenty of time on

SM instead of doing homework, studying the courses, and preparing examination. Many studies

(Duncan, Hoekstra, & Wilcox, 2012; Kalpidou, Costin, & Morris, 2011; Ophir, Nass, & Wagner,

2009; Wang et al., 2011) reported that students’ grades negatively affected using of SM. As an

outcome of too much exposure to Social Media, students of Matiao National High School who

are greatly exposed have low academic performance.

The purpose of the study is to examine the mainstream of Students’ exposure to Social

Media and its effect to their study habit and how it will be avoided.

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Review of Related Literature

Previous studies and related literatures were used as benchmark in conceptualizing this

study. They made significant contribution especially in the discussion of the results.

The Internet

The internet is at the heart of the information age, called “the mother of all networks,” the

internet (the “net”) is a worldwide computer network that connects hundreds of thousands of

smaller networks. These networks link educational, commercial, nonprofit, and military entities,

as well as individuals (Williams, Brian K. & Sawyer, Stacey C., 2010). The Internet plays a

profound role in the field of education. The academic community has undergone profound

transformation during these years, assuming new dimensions influenced by technology-driven

applications. The Internet is a priceless source of information for students and a tool to enhance

their productivity (Jones 2002; Metzger, Flanagin & Zwarun 2003; Kirschner and Karpinski

2010]. Through the aid of internet students can easily access Social Media-related sites.

The internet provides an array of powerful tools that may help in transforming the present

isolated teacher-centered and text-book bound classrooms into rich, students focused, interactive

knowledge environment. The Internet was described as a ‘sea of information’, containing texts

which are not housed between library and bookshop walls and subject areas span across all fields

of knowledge (Bilal, Usman, Waqas & Sehrish, n.d).

Despite of the positive contribution of internet to education and most especially to the

students, it has also re-shaped the routine of the students. Through internet, Social Medias can be

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access. Students freely do what they want to the extent that is considered abusive and

compulsive. In other words, they just went to the net to waste a lot of time.

The Social Media

Social Media has pervasively become an integral part to the students. It shifted their

attitude and behavior to reading books and novels; instead, they just resort to social media to

gain answers to their assignments, research and individual task. The study habit of students has

been washed down as a result of the emergence of technology and the advent of social media.

Arnold and Paulus (2010) found that even when social media is used for an educational purpose,

students incorporate the technology ino their lives in a way that may differ from the intentions of

the course instructor. For example, off-topic or non-academic discussions occur on social media

because of its primary design as a social networking tool (Lin et al., 2013). Social Media has

been greatly useful tool in education but the problem is it has unreasonably misused. Students

used Social Media abusively and in ill-educated way.

According to Boyd (2007) report, teenagers and students embraced social media so as to

interact with peers, for information sharing, re- formulating their personalities and thereby

getting their social lives off the ground. Michele and Kist (2008) who studied the risks in using

social media (Facebook, MySpace and Twitter) mentioned that it increased youths’ exposure to

sexual harassment this is one negative impact. Kord (2007) confirmed that students’ behaviors

are easily influenced by social media sites because of distasteful comments posted to harass

peers. Through social media, people can easily be duped or even lured into immorality.

According to Gross, and Acquisti, (2005), the internet’s initially meant for academic information

collection for research, but in recent times, it is increasingly used for communication amongst

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people and for entertainment business especially by students. In addition, Bonds-Raacke and

Raacke, (2008) reported that social media has influenced the adolescents’ way of

thinking/reasoning and interacting including the way they collect information (Dr. Langat

Andrew Chris). The abusive used of Social Media by the students clearly affects their study

habit. Instead of reading books and studying their notes, students rush to their social media

accounts for hours just doing nothing.

Study Habit

The study habit of students determines their academic performance/ achievements in

school. It is their active behavior to learn further about a certain a lesson. The concept of study

habit according to Husain (2000) is broad, as it combines nearly all other sub-concepts such as

study attitude, study methods and study skills. Students concentrating in a healthy study habit

acquire a more effective learning experience and knowledge. Meaning, lack of study or having

no study habit affects learning.

In this modernization, study of habit of students is merely affected by social media

wherein their academic performance dents.

Statement of the Problem

This study aims to determine the level of exposure of Grade 10 students of Matiao

National High School to Social Medias for the School Year 2018-2019.

Specifically, the study seeks:

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 1. What is the level of exposure of students to social media?

2. What is the level of performance of students’ study habit exposed in Social media?

3. What is significant difference of the level of performance of students exposed to social

media and students not exposed to social media?

Hypothesis fred ryan canoy deano grade 10 kindness ….. PANGIT JUD NA SIYA KAY.

DILIN KO NIYA PALITAN LAIN KAAYO NA SIYA BA…… 

At a 0.05 level of significance, the following hypotheses in this study were tested:

H0: There is no significant correlation between the effect of social media on study habit

among Grade 10 students of Matiao National High School.

H1: There is significant correlation between the effect of social media on study habit

among Grade 10 students of Matiao National High School.

Significance of the study

The findings of this study may provide educators necessary information in governing

students’ attitude and behavior in using social media. Educators may be able to cope up

techniques and approaches on how to regulate social media compulsiveness of the students. The

study habit of the students may be uplifted if social media will be incorporated properly in the

teaching-learning process. The result of this study will encourage teachers, administrators and

even curriculum planners how social media will be incorporated properly in pedagogical method.

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Scope of the Study

The focus of this research work is to primarily study the effect of social media on study

habit of students. This study comprises Grade 10 students of Matiao National High School who

are frequently using social media and students who are not frequently using social media. This

study is done during the first semester of the school year 2018-2019.

Theoretical and Conceptual Framework

This study is anchored on the concept that students’ learned best in the absence of social

media or with the proper usage of it. As of Heidegger’s “Shared-World Theory” that includes the

modalities of instrumentalism, students tend to explore wide scope to venture something new or

express their selves. Design is the practice of minimizing the usage of social media to enhance

the study skills of the students of Matiao National High School. Social media will be the

independent variable that will determine whether or not it affects the study habit of students as

dependent variable.

Conceptual Framework

Independent Variable Dependent Variable

Social Media

 Instagram Students’
 Facebook
Study Habit
 Skype
 Google
 Blog
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Figure 1.1 Schematic diagram showing the relationship of independent and dependent variables

Operational Definition of Terms

As words may mean differently in different contexts, the following definitions are given

as the words used as intended to be understood for the purpose of this study. The terms used in

this study are operationally defined from the context:

Students are individuals involve in this research as respondents.

Education is the pedagogical processes of making students acquire knowledge in a

certain curriculum.

Social Media is an instrument requiring internet access to function such as; Facebook,

Twitter, Instagram, and etc. This is a variable that strongly affects study habits

of the student of Matiao National High School.

Internet is an uplink that allows students to access social media through their cellphones

or Laptop and Computers.

Facebook is a type of social media that the students of Matiao National High School

frequently used.

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 CHAPTER 2

METHOD

This chapter presents the method and procedure that is applied in this study. It is

organized under the following sub-headings: Research Design, Research Locale, Research

Respondents, Research Instruments, Data Gathering Procedure, and Data Analysis.

Research Design

The research design to be adopted for this study is a descriptive survey. However, the

researchers will utilize the explanatory design through collecting and analyzing the quantitative

data on the effect of social media on students’ study habit from the results of a test given to them

together with the numerical data. The process will then be followed with the collection of

qualitative data through an interview to follow up and refine the quantitative data.

Locale of the Study

This study will be conducted at Matiao National High School, Archie Heights, Matiao,

City of Mati, Davao Oriental. It will be a study that determines the level of exposure of Social

Media to some Grade 10 students of this school.

Research Respondents

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 This study will utilize random sampling method. A total sample size of one hundred

(100) students will be randomly selected from the total population of 346 students in Grade 10

level of Matiao National High School who are frequently using social media and students who

are not frequently using social media.

Research Instruments

In this study, the researchers will use two instruments: (a.) a survey questionnaire using

Likert Scale Attitude Survey to measure the numerical data of the respondents’ frequency of

using social media. The questionnaire was designed by putting up statements which respondents

had to rank their level of agreement or disagreement. (b.) a group interview to collect qualitative

data to support the quantitative data.

a. Likert Scale Attitude Survey

A method of ascribing quantitative value to qualitative data, to make it amenable to

statistical analysis. A numerical value is assigned to each potential choice and a mean figure for

all the responses is computed at the end of the evaluation or survey. Likert scales usually have

five potential choices (strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, strongly disagree) but sometimes

go up to ten or more. The final average score represents overall level of accomplishment or

attitude toward the subject matter. This survey will measure and represent the overall level of

accomplishment or attitude of the respondents on their study habit.

b. Group Interview

This method aims at collecting high-quality data in a social context (Patton, 2002), which

primarily help understand a specific problem from the viewpoint of the participants of research

(Khan & Manderson, 1992).

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Variables

As this study seeks to determine the effect of social media on study habit of students,

hence, the variables: In this study, the researchers select two variables which are the following:

Dependent variable is researcher’s aim to understand and describe the dependent variable.

The student’ study habit will serve as the dependent variable of the study.

Independent variable is that who influence the dependent variable

The social media will serve as the independent variable of the study. This includes

facebook, google, Instagram, skype, blog, and any other cyberlinks. As hypothesized, this study

seeks to test the significant correlation between the effect of social media on study habit among

Grade 10 students.

Data Gathering Procedure

The data gathering process will involve students as participants, with that, the

researchers should seek permission with the administration and the school personnel in authority

through formal letter.

As this research seeks to determine the effect of the usage social media on the

educational performance of students, the researchers will conduct a survey to collect the needed

data through the use of survey questionnaire and group interview with the selected students from

Grade 10 level of Matiao National High School which will be administered in this school year

2018-2019. A total of 100 copies of the questionnaire will be distributed to elicit responses from

the students and be retrieved on the spot by the researcher.

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 COMMUNICATION FOR
CONDUCTING THE STUDY
SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE
CONSTRUCTION

TEST VALIDITY & RELIABILTY

SURVEY ADMINISTRATION

DATA ANALYSIS AND

INTERPRETATION

FINDINGS REPORTING

Figure 2.1 Flowchart of the data gathering procedure

Data Analysis

For analysis of the data, as this study uses two research instruments – survey

questionnaire and group interview, the researchers will record the test result and the discussion

with accuracy. The participants’ responses during the interview will be recorded generally in two

ways: (a.) taking notes and (b.) voice recorder.

The following statistical tools will be used in tabulating and analyzing the data gathered:

Descriptive Statistics: The analysis of data that helps describe, show or summarize data in a

meaningful way. This will allow a simpler data interpretation of this study.

Mean: Refers to the average that is used to derive the central tendency of the data in question. It is

determined by adding all the data points in a population and then dividing the total by the number of

points.

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 Standard Deviation: This will be used to determine the spread or scatter of the observation in

order to describe the effect of social media on study habit among students.

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