LEVEL OF ELECTRONIC GADGET USAGE AND THE ACADEMIC

PERFORMANCE OF SHS STUDENTS

A Research Paper presented to the

Faculty of the Senior Highschool Department

Dapdap Highschool Bamban,Tarlac

In Partial Fulfillment

of the Requirements for the Subject

Inquiries, Investigations and Immersion

Technical Vocational and Livelihood III

By:

BONGCAWEL,Angeline D.

BERJUELA,Genalyn Mae C.

ABSALOD,Ysshi Q.

MIRANDA,Kris Erica

OCAMPO,Lovely

BANA, Shailyn

BANAS,Princes Jane

RONQUILLO,Owen Heart

DATANG,Gabriel

2022
 CHAPTER I

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Introduction

Our daily lives have changed substantially as time moves forward because of

technological advancements. The contribution of electronic gadgets made our life

more enjoyable and convenient for us. There are many different gadgets on the

market, such as smartphones, tablets and much more. Electronic gadgets plays an

important role on many of us especially on students.It helps them to improve their

learning skills and enhance their knowledge. On the contrary,expect that there will be

bad effects when students spend too much time on gadgets.

Electronic gadgets has negatively affect every individual user especially

students.It can be the fact that they can become addictive and students tends to neglect

everything else like their social life as well as their academic life.Gadgets help us in

various ways in life and of course there is no way we’re going to deny it,But when we

use it for more than the required time, it means we are addicted to this technology.The

high duration of gadget usage can cause several negative impacts.Generally, this

addictive behavior is influenced by factors from within individuals who have not been

able to control the limits in the use of smartphones to make the teen experience

addiction (Ningtyas, 2013).

The study specifically seeks to answer the following questions:

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

1.1 Age

1.2 Sex

1.3 Section

2.What is the level of electronic gadget uses among the students?

2.1 Type of gadget

3.What is the implication of the study to the usage of electronic gadgets and

academic performance?

Scope and Delimitations

This study will determine the level of electronic gadgets usage and academic

performance of Senior Highschool students in Dapdap Highschool at San Nicolas

Dapdap,Bamban,Tarlac during the school year 2021-2022.This study is limited to the

grade 12 students with TVL strand in Dapdap Senior Highschool.

Significance of the Study

This study is intended to help readers undertand the level of electronic gadget

usage.
 To the Learners.This Study will help the learners to be aware about the effects

of excessive usage of gadgets.as well as the necessity of understanding the study in

order for them to prevent addiction and engage more on their academics.

To the Parents. This study will benefit them in a way where it will be helpful

for them to comprehend and enhance their knowledge about the effects of excessive

usage of gadgets

To the Future Researchers. This study will serve as a useful reference for

researchers when conducting new research.this will also serve as a source for them

and provide them with useful information.

Definition of Terms

The following terms wee defined based on their conceptual and operational

definitions.

Electronic Gadget -.are specialized electronic devices that require a form of

electric power to operate.(edgearticles.com) This are a piece of electronic equipment

that has a particular purpose and modern gadgets are sources that help to simplify our

daily tasks.(youth4work.com)

Academic Performance - is the measurement of students achievement across

various academic subjects.It is used as a measure in this research to assess how well

students satisfy the standards required out in their studies. (ballotpedia.org)

institution and who is under learning with goals of acquiring knowledge,

developing professions and achieving employment in a desired field.(wikipedia.org)

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES

Related Literature

Technical-Vocational-Livelihood track deals primarily with technical-vocational

skills or tech-voc. These skills are requirements for the Certificate of Competency

and National Certifications  that every students who chose this strand will need

especially if they are looking for a career in electronics, agriculture, or trading.Karl N.

(2018)

Electronic gadgets are a piece of electronic equipment that has a particular

purpose and modern gadgets are sources that help to simplify our daily

tasks.Harkin(2021)

According to Ohyie(2021) Electronic gadgets are the instruments which can perform

many activities at a time with vast speed & makes the hard work efficient oneT.hese

instruments helps us by making easy paper work, entertaining, for communication etc.

Gadgets help to fulfill merely every academic assignment and very fast. Students

receive instant access to information sources that help to complete their tasks. Such

speed and productivity greatly motivate them. Students become active participants in

the learning process and can improve all kinds of learning skills. Every gadget offers

multiple functions to sustain any skills you need. Besides, students collaborate with

one another. They are divided into groups that are connected via devices. This ensures
a quicker execution of tasks and promotes communicative and interpersonal skills.

Staff (2019)

Many students become addicted to the continuous use of digital devices. Thus,

they have torn off society and many of them cannot properly communicate with

people in real life. Many of them get distracted by technology and oftentimes, don’t

even fulfill learning tasks. They get strongly dependent on technology and are

completely unable to complete even the simplest assignments on their own.The

resourcefulness of technology encourages cheating. Thus, many students plagiarize

their papers and steal concepts of other authors and students. Staff (2019)

Related Studies

Foreign

Attewell (as cited in Aamri, 2004) Mobile phones have positively contributed to

the field of learning in many different ways. First, mobile learning helps learners to

improve their literacy and numeracyskills and to recognize their existing abilities.

Second, it can be used to encourage both independent and collaborative learning

experiences. Also, it helps learners to identify areas where they need assistance and

support. Moreover, it helps to remove some of the formality from the learning

experience and engages reluctant learners. Besides, it helps learners to remain more

focused for longer periods. Alhafeez (2017) states that “using and integrating some

technological devices may motivate students as well as teachers to do their traditional

jobs in different and attractive ways”

Mohd Mothar et al. (2013) has stated that in the selection of a gadget, it provides

an avenue for identifying the advantages and disadvantages of the gadget’s usage,

how it works in everyday life, how effective it is in searching, delivering and sharing
 of information and how users are able to control its usage. Many Gen Z users are

directly and indirectly involved in the effective and innovative use of these gadgets

daily especially in their studies and daily lives. However, the dependency on the use

of gadget without control is capable of contributing to problems in terms of socialand

academic.

Local

According to the Balbaguio et al,(2021) The results of their study showed that

the effect of electronic gadgets on academic performance of SHS learners was very

effective, level of proficiency on use of electronic gadgets was highly proficient,

study habit of SHS learners was very good.

Conceptual Framework

INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT

Demographic profile
 Data collection of
of the respondents:
the student’s
profile
1) Age The implications of the
 Administering results study
Questionnaires
2) Sex
 Organization of
3) Section
student’s
responses

 Statistical
analysis of data
 On the this study,the conceptual framework that will be used for the research is

the Input-Process-Output.Wherein the input includes the basic profiles of the

respondents in terms of their sex and age.Then,following the process are the data

collection of student’s profiles.After that,we’ll be administering the questionnaires

and then the organization of the student’s responses and the statistical analysis of the

data.The final output will be the implication of the results study.

METHODOLOGY

This study is made to determine how excessive usage of gadgets affects the
students of Dapdap Senior Highschool on their academic performances.Students
nowadays are getting addicted on gadgest which leads on failing grades and
neglecting their education.

Research Design

The research is quantitative descriptive research design using survey-

questionnaires deterimining the level of electronic gadgets usage and the academic

performance of shs students.

Research Locale

This study will be conducted in Senior High School located at Barangay San

Nicolas, Dapdap, Bamban, Tarlac.

Respondent of the Study

The respondent of this study are the selected grade 12 Tvl students in Dapdap

Senior Highschool. The researchers used purposive sampling to select the

respondents. The criteria for selection are; they must be grade 12 students, they must

be under the TVL track..

The table below shows the distributions of the respondents of the study.

Grade and Section Number of Respondents

Grade 12 - TVL 2 30

Grade 12 - TVL 3 30

Grade 12 - TVL 4 31

Total 106