Social Media's Impact on Grade 9 Academic Performance

MEDIA ON THE
ACADEMIC
PERFORMANCE OF
THE SELECTED
GRADE 9 STUDENTSGROUP 1
PRESENTED BY:

Social Media plays a big role on the
internet, taking a firm place in an
individual’s life specifically students.
Internet has significant impact on the
social life and mode of communication
of a person has now undergone a rapid
development. Since people have
discovered that internet can be used to
connect communicate.

Where they depend on this sites to
use it as a way to form communities,
share ideas, interests and chatting.
However, with all the things that we can
do from social media. Does this
phenomenon and best used of social
media affects the academic performance
of a student?
Just after social medias such as

In which youngsters has the chance
to communicate with a lot of people with
different identities, take in a considerable
measure of stories and the opportunity to
trade suppositions, talk about the issues
that are important to them. Therefore,
the users of Social Medias, in most
cases, are the representatives of this
younger generation or what we call the

As they form this false impression
that love and friendship are easy to
conquer and just as easy to destroy. In
addition, students that are familiar to fast
stream of the internet life. The truth and
reality of this generation may appear
excessively dull, and they can have a go
at, making it impossible for them to
“restore” it by doing imprudent activities.

1. What are the factors that
makes the selected Grade 9
students use social media?2. Why do social media have
the interest of the selected
Grade 9 students?3. Would time appropriateness
on social media have impact on
selected Grade 9 students

1. To find out the factors that
makes the selected Grade 9
students use social media.
2. Identify the reasons of the
selected Grade 9 students in having
interest to use social media.
3. To distinguish if the time
appropriateness on social media
have impacts in their academic

The outcome of this study will be
beneficial to the students, teachers,
parents and community. It will enable them
to know what are the improvement and
development they have to make. It will
allow the people to know if the effect of
social media is either positive or negative.
For example in students, this may help
them understand the effects of social
media, in teachers this can be a guide for

Our study was
conducted on the school
year 2019 to 2020 within
the Fourth Grading period

This scope of this study
focuses only on the current
effects of Social Media on the
academic performance of the
respondents. Our target
respondents are 100 Grade 9

According to Griffin people are
considering media like human being.
People talk to computer as if they were
talking to human being. They see
media as if they see people, they talk
to their devices as if they are
discussing to people. Griffin believe
that media are equal to real life.
As demonstrated by Griffin (2000, p.

In like manner, the word
interface is particularly capable
while delineating human media
relations. This normal social
response goes way past
inconsistent words yelled at the
TV or our insane play for the PC

The above articulation reasonably
gets how the group people directly will
when all is said in done interface with the
media in a discussion as they do to
individuals. It explain here that
people treat media just like
human beings, there are
chances that whatever people

Social media like Facebook has become popular
now even if all of it started out as a hobby, however for
several computer literates, individual has changed it to
become a social norm. In consistent with Nicole (2007),
college students and teenagers have in particular
identified these social media platforms so that it will
touch their friends, access information, reinvent their
personas and show off their social stay.
Then Karpinski (2009) said that social media has a
poor association with high school students' academic
performance than the advantages that can be derived

Also, inside the judgement of Karpinski (2009),
social media system users normally commit lesser
time to their studies has to compared to nonusers
did and sooner or later has lower GPAs. Nalwa &
Anand (2013) stated that students who are addicted
users love to use the net to set aside their personal
and professional obligations in which the final
results is bad academic performance. It became
additionally stated by Karpinski & Duberstein
(2009) that the various essential distraction of the

In line with Shana (2012), it was determined
that students use platforms particularly for
chatting and making friends. It became
additionally found that scholars are extra
depending on internet to get access to info that is
related to their educational life. Jeong (2005) then
discovered that net dependency is notably and
negatively related to students' instructional
increase as well as emotional attributes.
Seo (2004) confirms Jeong declaration when

Due to social media, the students have grown
to be era addicts and are pretty inhibited. Tess
(2013) presenter a totally complete literature
overview paper regarding the position of social
media in higher education, digital and actual
classes. According to junco (2012) using
Facebook as a social medium has negative effect
for high school students performance in terms of
their GPA and it also have connection among the

He also observed that social media is related to
improved educational performance of the student.
Meanwhile, Hamat, Ambi and Hassan (2012) stated
that using social network are used for the motive of
studying. Majority of the respondents use social
networking sites to know what are the device that
have connection to their studies. In addition, using
social networks has no considerably effect on the
scholars educational performance.
They just added some factors such as social

Making social networking sites as a medium can
be improved and explored social identities. On the
past decades, social networking has become more
popular attracting millions of active users
worldwide that offer opportunity to maintain
friendships and even a date. The succeeding article
highlights the positive and negative experiences of
three people with learning disabilities using social
media.
Which is the negative experiences reported by

One of the recent popular social media
platforms is the social networking site. Thus far,
few previous studies have empirically
investigated people's motivation for using
social networking sites. They asked 1,200 SNS
users an open question regarding their reasons
for using it. An important conclusion drawn
from a prior analysis is that people report many
motivational reasons for using social

Using Facebook on academic overall
performance of high school students of Lulea
University of Technology Sweden was investigated
by Ruis, Limayen & Salehi-Sangari base on their
personal development. The evaluation of 239 high
school students' data, exhibits very big outcomes.
The studies establish that the use of Facebook has a
serious impact on overall performance of students
with social confidence personalities.
However, thing of self limitation is essential for

They studied about Facebook to set up
its findings. In a 490 respondents, it was
stated here that Facebook has nothing to
do with the relationship of it among
students' period and frequency of use of
Facebook and their educational
performance. This negative impact is
defined via the reality that using cell

In order for the researchers to
conduct a bona fide research, this
chapter presents the methodology
about the Effects of Social Media on
Academic Performance of the
selected Grade 9 students.
Discussed here are the research

We decided the research topic
and looked up for approval, we kept
on following the precise method and
began working on data collection.
We will also be aware of the
possible difficulties that we can
encounter throughout data
collection.

This study used descriptive
research design; it evaluated the
effects of social media on the
academic performance of the
students in Langkaan II National
High School.
This type of research structure is
a purposive process of data

The instrument used in the
study is researcher made
questionnaire and to gather
validated data, the statement
describing situation or issues
pertaining to tone down and

The sources of data of this
research are primary and
secondary data. Primary data
was gathered through the
respondents questionnaire and
secondary data were detained

This research uses a
statistical percentage
formula to determine the
percentage of the

This chapter presents the
data gathered, the results of
statistical analysis done and
interpretation of findings.
These are presented in
following the sequence of the
research problem regarding the

Table 1.1
Frequency and Percentage Distribution of the Respondents in
terms of the reason why students use social media?
Responses Frequency Percentage
To keep in touch to the people I’m close to 46 46%
To share the happenings about me 12 12%
To socialize and make friends 31 31%
Others 11 11%
TOTAL 100 100%

Table 1.2
terms of what academic related purpose makes that makes the
students use social media?
Making my homework 35 35%
Communicate with my groupmates in a project 47 47%
To share my finished outputs and assignments 13 13%
Others 5 5%
TOTAL 100 100%

Table 1.3
terms of preferring social media in doing academic related items
and why?Responses Frequency Percentage
Yes, because it makes easier for us to make it. 65 65%
Yes, because it keeps us in touch to the outside world 14 14%
No, because it alters our focus resulting to becoming unfocused 13 13%
No, because it causes us to do more on social media than our academics 0 0%
Others 8 8%
TOTAL 100 100%

Table 2.1
terms of what they like about social media?
Because it has networks such as Facebook, Instagram and
YouTube
36 36%
Because it’s a convenient source for our assignments and
project
38 38%
Because it makes the long-distance communication short 21 21%
Others 5 5%

Table 2.2
terms of how often do they use social media?
Every day 71 71%
Every other day 19 19%
Every two days 3 3%
Others 7 7%
TOTAL 100 100%

Table 2.3
terms of how much time they spend on using social media sites?
1 hour 19 19%
2 hours 29 29%
more than 3 hours 51 51%
Others 1 1%
TOTAL 100 100%

Table 3.1
terms of what social media sites they mostly visit?
YouTube 20 20%
Facebook 67 67%
Twitter 7 7%
Others 6 6%
TOTAL 100 100%

Table 3.2
terms of they use social media mostly for?
Download music/ video 16 16%
Uploading music/ video 7 7%
Posting photos 9 9%
Seek information 31 31%
Chatting 24 24%
Submitting my academic related works 8 8%
Others 5 5%

Table 3.3
terms of what kind of communities do they subscribe to on social
media sites?
Educational 48 48%
Entertainment 30 30%
Informational 17 17%
Others 5 5%
TOTAL 100 100%

Table 3.4
Frequency and Percentage Distribution of the Respondents
in terms of does social media affects their academic performance
both in positive and negative way?
Yes, why? 71 71%
No, why? 13 13%
Maybe, Why? 15 15%
Others 1 15
TOTAL 100 100%

This chapter of the
study discussed the
summary of findings,
conclusion and

1. What are the factors that
makes the selected grade
9 students use social
media?
-The factors that it
makes most of the grade 9

2. Why do social media have the
interest of the selected grade 9
students?
- The reasons why do social
media have the interest of grade 9
students is because it has
programs and applications that
makes thing easier for them such

3. Would time appropriateness on
social media have the impact on
selected grade 9 students
academic performance? How much
they spend in using social media?
-The appropriateness in social
media clearly have impact on the

1. We the researcher therefore
conclude social media affects
them positively in a way that it
helps them to do their school
related works and makes their
communication with their
peers easier. However social

2. We the researchers thus
conclude that social media
platforms such as Facebook,
YouTube is not just for
entertainment purposes but
rather for educational

2. We the researchers
therefore conclude that
time appropriateness
effects their academic
performance. In a way that
the students who spend

1. The students are
recommended to use
social media responsibly in
a way that they should use
social media when it is
necessary and only if it is

2. The students are
also recommended to
know the proper
usage of social media
and have a time

2. The parents are
recommended to give
their children a proper
guidance on how they
use social media and

3. The future researchers are
recommended to focus their
study on how the parents should
exercise their guidance to the
students to avoid the negative
effects of social media to their
academic performance. They

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