IMPACT OF

SOCIAL MEDIA
TO THE
ACADEMIC BEHAVIOR
OF STUDENTS
IN RODRIGUEZ NATIONAL
HIGH SCHOOL
OBJECTIVE of this Research
Paper
• Find out the positive and negative impacts of social media to the academic behavior of students
in Rodriguez National High School.
• Implement interventions to lessen the negative impact of social media.
 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

1. What is the percentage of students who are usually using

social media?
2. How many hours does the student usually spend in using
social media?
3. What are the impacts of social media to the academic
behavior of students in Rodriguez National High School?
4. What are the interventions that should lessen the negative
impact of social media?
 Students
Parents
Teachers
School
Department of Education
Future researchers
This study is only limited to Junior and Senior High
School Students of Rodriguez National High School.
QUALITATIVE DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH DESIGN was used in this study

CHECKLIST was used as a survey questionnaire.

97% said that they use social media while 3% of them do not
48.45% of them said that they use social media for 2 hours and more.
34.02% consumes 1 hour and 17.53% spends 15-30 minutes of using
social media.
Facebook is the most used Social Media site in Rodriguez
National High School followed by

YouTube,

Instagram,

and the last is Twitter.

The other 10.31% of Social Media used by students

includes Wattpad and Reddit.
Over 64.95% of students believed that Social
Media has positive impacts on them.
More than half of the students said that they are affected
by the posts/photos/videos they see/read in these social
media sites whether those are positive and negative.

The other 48.45% said that the contents they see in social

media does not affect them.

The positive effect of social media is that 87.23% of the
students says it is helpful for their communication and
relationship with their classmates. 25.77% said that it does
not help.
64 out 100 (65.98%) of the students use social media
before sleeping while the remaining 33 (34.02%) do not.
Over 50.52% of the students admitted that using social

media consumes/completely replaced their time for

studying while the other 49.48% said that it does not

lessen their time for studying.

49.48% of them admitted that social media distracts them

from studying while 50.52% said that they are not.

54.64% of the students admitted that their mood after

using social media affects their behavior inside the

classroom. 45.36% said that they are not affected.

ANSWERS TO THE STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEMS

1. What is the percentage of students who are usually

using social media?

Majority of the students in Rodriguez National High School

over 97% use Social Media sites/platforms. Facebook is

the most used social media followed by YouTube,

Instagram then Twitter. Other social media sites that are

not given that is used by the students are Wattpad and

Reddit.
2. How many hours does the student usually spend in using social media?

48.45% of the students consumes 2 or more hours in

using social media sites. Students usually use their social

media for many hours.

3. What are the impacts of social media to the academic
behavior of students in Rodriguez National High School?

Tool for easy communication for their classmates and

other unmentioned reasons are positive impacts of social

media to the students. Distraction, caused by less time of

studying, effects of the posts/contents to their mood and

then behavior and usage of social media before sleeping

are the negative impact of social media to the academic

behavior of students in Rodriguez National High School.

4. What are the interventions that should lessen the
negative impact of social media?

Cellphone banning and infographics about the right

manner of using social media can help to lessen its

negative effects on students.

 RECOMMENDATIONS

• More in depth study if social media does distracts students from their study or not.

More related researches:

 about the relationship between hours of social media usage to the academic performance of

the students.

 about the usage of social media before sleeping to the students’ academic performance.

 about the effect of social media contents to the academic performance of the students.