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Lack of Internet Access to Students

by

(Group 1)
Dela Rosa, Aira
Mendoza, Jacky
Dalin, John Benedict
Sorrado, Alex
Trinidad, Jericho

ICT 11 - B

Submitted to the Senior High School Department

Meycauayan National High School

In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements

For the Practical Research 1
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(September_2019)
1. Introduction

1.1 Background of the Study

Internet is one of the most important source through which an individual can easily

get information, and perform thousands of activities. Most schoolwork these days required

a computer and an internet connection, and that includes work to be done at home easily.

But what about the other who don't have internet access? They might be left behind with

their activities in school subjects that requires internet. Lack of internet access is one of

the problem of students that affect their school subject that requires internet access. A 2017

survey of more than 400,000 K-12 students, teachers, librarians and school administrators

conducted by Project Tomorrow, a California nonprofit dedicated to educational equity,

found that lack of in-home internet access is an enormous problem for students in all 50

states. This has been support by researchers at Pew Research who discovered that 17.5

percent of school children in grades 6 to 12 have ongoing difficulties completing school

work due to a lack of internet access. Some of students who lack the resources needed to

complete their assignments they might spend hours looking for free Wi-Fi access points.

Some of students failing in their subject that requires internet access to do an activities

because lack of internet access.

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1.2 Problem Statement

By using mobile internet, students can easily access internet anywhere and can able to

clarify their doubts. So internet gives so many benefits to students. They can use it for their

career growth and get knowledge. But how about the other students who don't have internet

access in their home? They might going late at home and stay late at the library to complete

their assignments. One of the biggest problems faced by students without internet access

at home is their inability to complete homework or research paper. Some students fail in

their subjects that requires an internet access. Students from low-income families aren't

exposed to technology and don't see it used as much, or in the same ways, as students from

high income families. Some of parents and students can't afford the cost of school

equipment or digital equipment. According to Mr. Matthew Lynch’s study, About 65% of

students use the internet to complete homework, which includes doing research,

submitting assignments, emailing teachers, and collaborating online with classmates. And

million of students are being left behind because of lack of internet access. And with this

result, the researchers want to know the effects of lack internet in meeting subject

requirements of a student.
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MRQ: What are the effects of lack internet in meeting subject requirements of a

student?

SRQ:

1. Does the subject requires student to have internet access?

2. Does students need to have internet access?

3. Students have activity that need an internet did they make it?

1.4 Significance of the Study

The importance of this study is to giving realization the subject teachers that has

teaching using internet that not every students has internet access. And it has possibility

that students might left behind in their lesson or activities in school because of lack internet

access. And to determine the effects of lack internet in meeting subject requirements to a

students.

1.5 Scope and Limitation of the Study

The scope in this study are high school in Meycauayan National High School and

colleges students only. Elementary students not included because some of elementary

students have parents that they can help to buy digital equipment for them and to support

them. Other factors that may be included will be for further research.
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2. Review and Literature

According to Lynch (2017) that studied the absence of internet at home is a problem for

some students. Lynch found that the lack of internet access can affect a students academic

performances. And also found that students without internet can’t connect with teachers or

classmates, do independent research, or get online homework help. And they might be left

in their lessons or activities.

One study conducted by Perry and Curlin (1998) that

determined the differences exist among various age groups regarding students’ use of the

Internet. It was concluded that many of students used internet and they took hours per week

regularly to do homework and projects.

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According to Ani (2010) that investigated the extent and level of Internet access as

well as the use of electronic resources by undergraduate students in three Nigerian

Universities. Ani found that undergraduate students use the Internet extensively. However

due to the infrastructure, the access to the Internet in the university libraries,

departments/faculties and university computer/ICT centers. was grossly poor . Private,

commercial Internet services, and cybercafés was the majority of the respondents relied

on. It was also found that the use of electronic resources and databases is needed for the

respondents in Internet education.

One study conducted by Luambano and Nawe (2004) that investigated the Internet

use by students of the University of Dar es Salaam. They found that the majority of the

students were not using the Internet due to the lack of computers with Internet access, lack

of skills in Internet use and slow speed of computers. It was also revealed that most students

who used the Internet did not use it for academic purposes. It was suggested that it should

be provided more computers connected to the Internet and on the use of Internet, training

should be given to the students .

According to Ruzgar (2005) that studied the purpose of the Internet use and learning

via Internet. It was concluded that the Internet has become part of college life and its usage

is approaching 100 percent among students. In terms of activities online, sending/receiving

e-mail topped the list, followed by reading news and finding sports information, research
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for school-related work, chat, research for products and services, and downloading images.

Ruzgar found that 36 percent of the students spent 1-10 hours per week on the Internet.

Because of their online activities, students watched less television.

Badu and Markwei (2005) studied the use of the Internet and its resources by

academic staff and postgraduate students at the University of Ghana. Their findings showed

that academic staff and postgraduate students were fully aware of the Internet and most of

its services. It was also found that academic staff used Internet more than postgraduate

students. Apart from e-mail, the frequency of using the Internet resources was very low.

Staff and students indicated that they need training for an effective use of the Internet.

One study conducted by Adeyemi (2002) who explained that electronic literature

is very useful for research students due to the wide amount of data it contains. The huge

amount of information at their disposal enable students to have an in depth view of the

research topic. Research and other academic activities require originality and this leads

undergraduates to retrieve information for their work from remote computers around the

world through the Internet. The Internet, which is an important resource for students,

According to Oyegade (2000) as the best source of information retrieval because it is the

gateway to the globe. It has allowed different groups of people, especially researchers, to

create channels of communication and self-expression. According to Thomas (2004), the

Pew Research Center in 2001 reported that 94% of teenagers with access to Internet rely
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on online information for research tasks and 71% of them used the Internet as the major

source for their most recent school projects. Fifty-eight percent (58%) of the students have

used websites set up by the school or a class, 34% have downloaded a study guide while

17% have created a web page for a school project. Electronic resources, are beneficial for

teaching, learning and research, however lack of skill would probably inhibit students'

retrieval of information from electronic resources.

3. Methodology

3.1 Research Design

The researchers choose the Assessment or Evaluation Study as a research design

for them to know the effects or impact of lack internet in meeting subject requirements of

a student.

3.2 Methodological Framework

INPUT PROCESS oOUTPUT

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• Documentation • Determination of the

•If the student use Effects of lack internet in
a. Problem
meeting subject
internet to his/her Identification
b. Data Gathering requirements in a
subject. using: student.
1. Interview
2. Questionnaire

• Data Analysis

a. Descriptive
3.3 Sampling

The researchers choose Purposive Sampling. The sampling method

chooses samples depending on their availability. This study is limited in

Meycauayan National High School. The researchers choose grade 11 section

ICT (B) as their respondents, because they most exposed in technology or

internet.
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