Part 2
Part 2
By:
Lester L, Castillo
Adrian R. Garcia
Theodore William M. Favillaran
Johnsen S.M. Lopez
Zaimoun R. Mendoza
in practical research 2
Acknowledgment
First of all, I thank God, the almighty for giving us this opportunity and guiding
us the capability to proceed successfully. I thank God our father for giving our team
strength, wisdom, enlightenment, and teamwork to pass this. And for the guidance that
God gave us during the day that we’ve been doing out thesis.
students for actively participate on out survey questions. We want to express our deepest
thanks to our La Consolacion College- Novaliches president Sr. Diosie Tangca-ag, OSA
Third, I would like to thank my thesis teacher Mrs. Ciello C. Oballes for guiding
us in our research thesis, helped us to build a foundation of our thesis and for giving us
knowledge about quantitative research. Thank you for your patience and guidance during
boosting our confidence and I really appreciate our schoolmates for actively participate
between students who use cellphones in class and students who did not use cellphones in
class. The main focus of the study is about utilizing phones to enhance academic
2019 – 2020. The main objective of this study is to determine if the using of phones in
the students or can decrease their performance in class. The data will be gather by
order to analyze the data, the researchers used weighted mean method and Likert scale. It
also aims to find if there is significant difference between students who use cellphones in
class and student who did not use phones in class by using the method (Pearson r). The
data used in finding significant difference is from the grade of the students (in general
science) in 1st quarter from their grade 11 and in 1st quarter on grade 12. The study
revealed that students used their phones properly but not all the times. Therefore
cellphone can use to enhance the academic performance of the student by using it
properly.
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
modernization of our era. Cell phones came from the cell-like structure of these networks
(Ware, 2019). Through this cellular network the students can use the phones as an
entertainment that are much likely the games and social media together with the
academic purposes that is likely the searching and gathering of information in the internet
using mobile phones. In producing the high quality graduates who will become the next
manpower of our country, student’s academic performance’s is a must because for the
students would know the value of the responsibilities in economic and social
principal (Lucks, 2001) states, “Every kid today does carry a cell phone”. Cell phones
can be a major distraction amongst teenagers in class, but they can also be used as
teaching and learning tools as well. Cell phones can be used as a calculator, digital
camera, Internet access, and dictionary (Gore, 2010) . Students uses a lot of ways to
improve their skills from gaining a lot of information, they would use mediums like
technologies to help them from their studies. One of the medium used by the students that
2020 students are bringing mobile phones to class. Bringing of mobile phones are
debatable either to authorized or not. Teachers believe that mobile phones do not belong in
a classroom because there are several disadvantages. An example maybe a student who
uses mobile phones in class has no intension in listening or paying attention to the teacher.
This student has a short attention span that cares about socializing more than his/her
education.
Mobile phones can be disruptive; they can invade people’s privacy and can
also be used as harassment or bullying. The usage of mobile phones is creating huge
problem particularly when they are used in school. But some teacher believe that mobile
phones help the students to improve their academic performance because mobile phones
can be used for researching and through surfing in the internet with mobile phones students
gain knowledge that they read and see. Mobile phones could either be distraction when
they are much likely to use it for entertainment purposes in the student’s performance or a
technology that would help the students to make their assignments and projects when
gaining knowledge and gathering information through the use of mobile phones. In La
Consolacion College – Novaliches they allowed the students to use their mobile phones
during their free time or when the teachers allowed the mobile phones to be used for
academic purposes. Mobile phones are rampant during this modern era and evolution of
technology. Through these mobile phones academic performances of the students are
This research aims to quantify the effectiveness of mobile phones as well as the advantages
a) research purposes
b) science subjects
c) assignments
3. Is there a significant difference between the performance of the students that using
phones in study to the students who did not use phones in their study ?
Theoretical Framework This research was anchored by the idea of theory of Mobile
Learning (Sharples, Taylor & Vavoula 2005) that technology is essential in the field of
learning field, it has advantages and disadvantages in terms of education. Both theories
provide the framework that will help to explain the priority and intention of students in
using cell phones. It will help the researcher to gain knowledge on how these phones affect
This study engages the input – Process – Output framework and its main focus is to
find out the effectiveness of mobile phones in academic performance of grade 12 students.
recommendation
First box is input that includes the Students background profile in terms of their age
and sex. Next is the general average of a grade 12 students last school year. Last is the time
was managed to come up with the data. Next is conducting a survey to grade 12 students to
Lastly, the third box which is the Output this where the findings, conclusion,
results, and recommendation derived from the survey. Next is the assessment of influences
of usage of cell phone in improving scholastic rating. Last is the interpreted mean of the
This research will be use to determine if the usage of mobile phones is better for the
student to improve their scholastic ranking. This research would be beneficial to the
following:
School Administrators - for the school admin to have an idea to provide activities that will
encourage students to use phones for academic proposes and implement effective rules for
Teacher - for the teacher to have an idea on how to improve their teaching and inspire
Students- for the students to manage their time regarding the usage of using mobile phones
Future researcher- This research will provide additional information that serve as basis
Definition of Terms
Cell Phones- Also known as mobile phones. A portable telephone that has an ability to
measures.
Intention- It defined on how will the individual do’s or react on a certain situation
Network- In this research it is asystem of computers and other devices that are connected
to each other
Social Development- It defined to know how to maintain a good relationship with others.
Pearson R- A statistical tool used to find if their significant difference between students
who use phones in class and student who did not use cellphones in their class.
CHAPTER 2
This chapter presents foreign and local literature that is relevant to the
present study. It will provide useful ideas to support this research and ideas on how
FOREIGN LITERATURE
and also use for education. It can enhance the performance of the students but it can also
lower the performance of the students in the class depends to theirselves. There are lot of
studies, research and reports that shows that cellphones is decreasing the performance of
the academic performance of the students. There are studies that show that cellphones
hinder the focus and attention of the student in studies particularly in the class. Using of
cellphones in class makes the students distracted from their classes and makes their
According to Barker, Krull, and Mallison [16], cellphones or mobiles phone serve as
motivation of the student to their classes. With the use of cellphone, it can enhance the
education not only for the students but also for the teachers and parents as well.
Based on the study of Sundari (2015), there are significant relationship between the
gender and the learning skills in terms of using cellphones or mobile phones. There are
factors that affect the effectiveness of phones to the students. It support the idea of this
research that there are variables that can affect the students’ academic performance through
LOCAL LITERATURE
Based on article “Do mobile devices in the classroom really improves learning
outcomes?” by Lynch,Matthew. He states that in the U.S. Mobile devices that serves as a
Research Center survey it founds out that 58% of U.S. teachers own smartphones-10%
higher than the average for adults. Those techs use for their lesson plans. He added, In
2013, an estimated 25% of U.S. schools had BYOD policies in place and assuming that it
will increase.
Placement and National Writing Project teachers had said that 73% of teachers allowing
students to use their phones or gadgets and uses it also for their assignments to be done
and also English teacher are more likely to use mobile technologies in classroom than
math teachers and 47% of teachers strongly agreed and an additional 44% also agreed,
that students need digital literacy courses to be successfully in academic. In addition to
that bringing mobile gain attention to those who are privileged that can lead to theft.
mobile learning can serves as a tool for Filipino who are beginner in reading that can
helps for nurturing child to learn how to read in their early age and guide them in proper
pronunciation. The contents of the applications are the basic reading manuals like
abakada. This application are essential for the young age to excel in their class at the
same time practice while they are at home. This application has a version of 4.0 or ice
cream sandwich up to kit Kat version. Agile Methodology was used in this application. It
was designed in Adobe Photoshop android studio for its coding. Conformance testing and
Practice testing are the tools were used in the study,which both passed. In addition to that,
the project was evaluated using the criteria on Android developers’ standard. Forty (40)
participants was evaluated the project. (10)IT experts and (30) end user were invited. The
result in 10 IT experts showed that the application was highly acceptable by the mean of
3.54. The application is moderately acceptable with the mean of 3.5. showed by the end
On the study of Laningan,et al.(2019), there are more 80% of internet users
believes that cellphone had a good impact while the 20 % had negative impact. There are
also a study that shows that many of students use their phones on their leisure rather than
studying. It support the idea of the researchers that Cellphones can enhance the academic
Reaserch Design
researcher use Pearson’s R correlation method to derive findings, results and conclusion
with the data collected on the survey from grade 12 STEM students.
who use phones and who did not use their phones on their study
25 students per section of grade 12 STEM will be targeted in this research study. A total
study. This technique was used to give the students a chance and to eliminate bias and to
preserve confidential bias. This random sampling technique is based on the Senior High
12 STEM, the selection of students was by random sampling technique. This will be done
by selecting the students randomly with their equal chance. Random sampling technique
was used in this study to select 25 students in each section to complete the 60% of the 79
located at St. Peter Street Villa Maria Subdivision, Deparo, Caloocan City. The
respondents will be the grade 12 STEM students. They will be given a questionnaire test
answered by Grade 12 STEM students. The researchers handed out the questionnaires randomly
in the said group. There are twenty-five per section to be answered in each STEM section,
making it fifty in total. The questionnaires or the answer sheet are to be checked and the situation
or questions there are how often or frequent is the student use cellphone in the said situation. The
researchers also added a question that is answered by giving suggestions to help students for
To analyze and interpret the data needed, the researcher used the following
statistical tools;
of the respondents
F
Formula: P = x 100
n
Where :
P = Percentage
F = Frequency
N = No. of respondents
Fx
Formula: Wx =
n
3. Likert’s Scale was used to interpret the mean score in each item of the
Formula:”
n ( ∑ xy ) −( ∑ x )(∑ y )
R=
√¿¿¿
Where:
r = correlation coefficient
students A.Y.2018-2019
∑xy = summation of products of 1st quarter general average in sciences subject of grade 12
STEM students A.Y 2019-2020 and 1st quarter general average in sciences subject of grade
This chapter discusses the data analysis and interpretation of data gathered
Consolacion College-Novaliches. There are 25 students that are randomly selected in each
Age
15 years old 1 2%
Total 50 100%
As it shown in the Table 1, majority of the respondents are aged 17 years old. It is
58% of the total number of the respondents. About 26% of the respondents are aged 18
years old. Meanwhile 4% of the respondents are aged 15 years old and 18 years old.
Sex
Male 27 54%
Female 23 46%
Total 50 100%
As it shown in the Table 2, the number of male respondents is greater than the
number of female respondents. There are 27 male grade 12 STEM students, while there are
23 female grade 12 STEM students, that serve as the respondents for this study.
For a clear detailed presentation, the data contains
1. I use my cellphone to
to my lessons.
research.
4. It is easy to me to search
5. It helps me to access
search results related topics to my lessons with the mean score of 4.48 with the verbal
interpretation of “ Always”. This means that cellphone is really helpful for the students in
In item number 2, there is a mean score of 4.24 with the verbal interpretation of
“Often”. It shows that most of the student is more preferred and more comfortable to use
In item number 3, the mean score is 2.66 with the verbal description of “Sometimes“.
It shows that student is knowledgeable about the terms in cellphones especially for the
In item number 5, the mean score is 4.62 with the verbal description of “Always”. It
shows that cellphones stand as a bridge to the resources such as websites and articles.
Table 4. Specialized subjects
difficult terms.
unit of measurement.
Cellphone does helps student to work on their specialized subjects ranging often to
always.
Table 5. Assignments
information about my
assignments.
cellphone.
doing research.
Results in Assignments
Students use cellphones in making assignments to help them from the information
that they will gather. From the mean of 4.28 it is said that it is easy to make assignments when using
phones.
my academic performance.
critical thinker.
Results
Cellphones is effective in using for doing schoolwork and for thinking critically. It
productive in class
research
educational websites
improved my vocabulary
Results
Cellphones are effective for making you productive, researches, accessibility from
educational websites, expanding vocabulary and updates from the rate of “often”.
Table 7. Academic
No. Item Mean Descriptive Rating
performances?
in terms of academic
purposes?
hardworking
school works.
Results in Academic
Using cellphone in school campus does reduce time in doing assignments at home.
In rate of neutral cellphones does help you improve academic performance and still lose focus in
use my phone.
quizzes.
exam or quizzes.
unfamiliar words.
my classmate to
Table 10. Significant difference between the perceptions of the two groups of respondents
Students(n) x y x
2
y
2
xy
Chapter 5
Summary of chapter 4
Cellphones does effectively affects academic performances, social
Recommendation
From the results and conclusion of the study, researchers made the following
recommendations:
1. The school should provide educational program that students can use their
phones.
2. Students should learn to use their phone properly and on limited time.
Conclusion