Chapter 3

PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF FINDINGS

This chapter contains the analysis and interpretation of data gathered

from the responses of 4th year Bachelor of Secondary Education major in

English in UM Digos College.

The following discussions are focused on the Level of Utilization of

Students in Social Networking Sites in terms of Educational Purposes During

Weekdays, Entertainment Purpose During Weekdays, Educational Purpose

During Weekends/Holidays, and Entertainment Purpose During

Weekends/Holidays, the Level of Academic Performance of Students in

Language Research, and the Correlation Matrix of the Level of Utilization in

the Social Networking Sites and Academic Performance in Language Research.

Level of Utilization of Students

in Social Networking Sites

Table 2. Utilization of Students in Social Networking Sites

INDICATORS
Educational Purposes During Weekdays 2.74

Entertainment Purposes During Weekdays 2.60

Educational Purposes During Weekends/Holidays 1.76

Entertainment Purposes During Weekends/Holidays 2.44

OVERALL 2.37

Presented on the Table 1, is the extent of Facebook utilization among 4th

year BSED major in English students of UM Digos College.

According to Kim, S. (2011) which indicates Educational Purposes

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During Weekdays, Entertainment Purpose During Weekdays, Educational

Purpose During Weekends/Holidays and Entertainment Purpose During

Weekends/Holidays as the indicators of Social Networking Site utilization.

Educational and Entertainment Purposes During Weekdays. The

extent of Social Networking Sites utilization among 4th year BSED major in

English students in terms educational purposes during weekdays had a

computed mean value of 2.74, which is described as moderate. This means that

the 4th year BSED major in English students utilizes the Social Media three to

four times a day during weekdays for their academic purposes. In terms of

entertainment purposes during weekdays, a computed mean value of 2.60,

which is described as moderate. This means that the 4th year BSED major in

English students utilizes the Social Media three to four times a day during

weekdays for leisure. On the study of Pampek, Yermolayeva, and Calvert

(2009), it was identified on their findings that the college students’ extent of

using SNS like Facebook reported the averaged 27.93 minutes per day on the

sites during weekdays.

Educational and Entertainment Purpose During Weekends/

Holidays. The extent of Social Networking Sites utilization among 4th year

BSED major in English students in terms educational purposes during

weekends and/or holiday of had a computed mean value of 1.76, which is

described as low. This means that the 4th year BSED major in English students

utilizes the Social Media once or twice a day for their academic purposes. In

terms entertainment purposes during weekends, a computed mean value of

2.44, which is described as low. This means that the 4th year BSED major in
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English students utilizes the Social Media once or twice a day for leisure. On

the same study of Pampek et al (2009) identified on their findings that the

college students’ extent of using SNS like Facebook reported the averaged

28.44 minutes per day during weekends.

The overall extent of Social Networking Sites Utilization among 4th year

BSED major in English Students in UMDC gathered a total mean score of

2.37, which is described as low. This means that the students rarely agreed on

how they use SNS in terms of Educational Purposes During Weekdays,

Entertainment Purpose During Weekdays, Educational Purpose During

Weekends/Holidays and Entertainment Purpose During Weekends/Holidays.

Moreover, all key concepts are marked and described as low. Almost all the

students who partake in the study utilizes the SNSs more frequently on

weekdays for educational and entertainment purposes than weekends

utilization.

Level of Academic Performance of

Students in Language Research

Table 3. Academic Performance in Language Research

INDICATOR Remarks

Academic Performance in Language Research 2.21 good

OVERALL 2.21 good

The table shows the level of academic performance of the students in

terms of their grade point average on Language Research got the mean

percentage of 2.21, which is described as good. The performance of the

students on their course does not mean it was affected by their participation and
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time spent on the social networking sites. Ali, S. et al (2013) stated that

academic gain and learning performance is affected by numerous factor

including gender, age, teaching faculty, students schooling, father/guardian

social economic status, residential area of students, medium of instructions in

school, tuition trend, daily study hour and accommodation as hostelries or day

scholar. Many researchers conducted detailed studies about the factors

contributing student performance at different study levels (Ali, S. et al, 2013).

Significant Relationship Between the

Level of Utilization in the Social Networking Sites
and Academic Performance in Language Research

The table 3 shows the correlation between SNS utilization and

Academic Performance of 4th year BSED major in English students of UMDC.

Using Pearson r. it is found that the indicators of SNS utilization have no

correlation with the academic performance of the students. This means that the

utilization of the SNS of the student-respondents does not affect their academic

performance, specifically on Language Research. This repels the idea of Amin,

Z. et al (2016), which states that the social networking sites utilization of the

students will greatly affect their grade point average.

Ellison, Steinfield, and Lampe (2007) has put forward that scholars

spends lots time on collaborating in social networking sites, with many students

blaming the numerous social networking websites for his or her consistent

decrease in grade factor averages. Since the results indicated that utilization of

SNSs on the indicators of the variable was not associated with the grade point

average of the students on Language Research, other factors have influenced

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the students’ performance.

Table 4. Correlation Matrix of the Level of Utilization in the Social Networking

Sites and Academic Performance in Language Research
LEVEL OF UTILIZATION OF ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES
Academic OVERALL
Performance In
Language
Research
Educational Purposes During Weekdays 0.024 0.024

Entertainment Purposes During 0.033 0.033

Weekdays

Educational Purposes During 0.095 0.095

Weekends/Holidays

Entertainment Purposes During 0.005 0.005

Weekends/Holidays

OVERALL 0.062 0.062

*p<0.05