Mobile Legends and Academic Performance

INFLUENCE OF MOBILE LEGENDS TO THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SELECTED JUNIOR HIGHSCHOOL STUDENTS IN ASIAN COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY

A Junior High School Research Paper Presented to The Faculty of Junior High School Department Asian College of Technology Educational Foundation Bulacao, Cebu City

Cagalitan, Christian Casamayor, Grant Estoce, Andrei Fernandez, Janna Gungob, Mikela Ruizo, Zeth Obando, Gabriel

February 2020

Asian College of Technology- Integrated School

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CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

​Introduction

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) is a popular game that is well known for players who have the interest of playing 5v5 Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA). It was created by Shanghai Moonton Technology. It was first released in Southeast Asia (SEA) on July 11, 2016 but it was initially released worldwide on November 9, 2016.

Ever since its release, it has been a blast for mobile players. It was the most downloaded free mobile game app among Iphone users in 2017. The most recent Mobile Legends (ML) update brought in several new additions to the game. Players not only have a new interface to get used to, but they’re introduced to new heroes as well.

Its premise is interesting enough to keep players glued to their smartphones. Today, mobile games are usually downloaded from app stores as well as from mobile operator's portals, but in some cases are also preloaded in the handheld devices by the OEMor

by

the

mobile

operator

when

purchased,

via

infrared

connection,Bluetooth, memory card or side loaded onto the handset with a cable.

In today’s generation, the continuous growth of modern technology is developing too fast. Due to advanced technology, nowadays students are getting involved with too much playing of mobile games. This game has caused addiction to some people including students. They tend to focus on it because as for others it makes them feel

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relaxed and happy. Mobile games definitely put them in a different state of mind. Games allow users to interact more actively with the media and other users than TV programs and music do. Even students have lost track of their studies because of mobile games.

Because of this they lack time management in everything they do. In Asian College of Technology, we have also seen a lot of students focused on their mobile phones because of playing Mobile Legends so we have conducted this study.

This study aims to know the influence of mobile legends to the behavior or academic performances of the students, also to raise awareness and prevent them from not spending their time productively. Everything has limitations, with proper guidance and schedule in playing games, students can avoid or lessen the addiction.

Statement of the Problem The study aimed to determine the influence of Mobile Legends to the Junior High School students’ academic performance; specifically the researchers sought to find out the answers to the following questions: 1.

How does Mobile Legends affect the academic performance of Junior High

School students in terms of: 1.

Average grade for the recent period

2. Absences in school 2.

How many sessions does a gamer spend on playing online games in terms of: 1.

Frequency

2. Average Time Span

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Conceptual Framework A more detailed picture is presented in the diagram of the conceptual framework. It shows here the method, process and descriptive output.

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Scope and Delimitation of the Study This study aims to know the influence of Mobile Legends to the selected JHS students’ academic performance. This study is only limited to students in Junior High School who are addicted or play Mobile Legends. All students should be from Asian College of Technology. ​ Significance of the Study

Nowadays, people are more engaged in playing mobile games. They tend to focus on it because as for others it makes them feel relaxed and happy. Mobile games definitely put them in a different state of mind.

In this section the researchers expressed the value or importance of the research study and this is where the significant contribution of the result was enumerated. This research study will be beneficial to the following: To the students. This study will show the positive and negative effects of playing Mobile Legends. Playing this would have a big impact on their behavior especially on those who have academic achievements. In this way, they would be more conscious of the side effects.

To the parents. This study will help the parents have enough knowledge about the effects of playing mobile games and they would be aware of what it can do to the behavior among their children.

To the readers. This study will give them more understanding about the positive and negative influence of Mobile Legends. They will also be guided.

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Definition of Terms

Mobile Games- is a game played on a feature phone, smartphone/tablet, smartwatch, PDA, portable media player or graphing calculator.

Technology- is the sum of techniques, skills, methods, and processes used in the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific investigation.

Academic Achievements- is the extent to which a student, teacher or institution has attained their short or long-term educational goals.

Multi player- in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally or online over the internet.

App- is a computer program or software application designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone, tablet, or watch.

Time Management- is the process of planning and exercising conscious control of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity.

Addiction- is a complex condition, a brain disease that is manifested by compulsive substance use despite harmful consequence.

Limitation- a limiting rule or circumstance; a restriction.

Mobile Players- people who are engaged in playing mobile games.

Influence- the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something, or the effect itself. ​

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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND RELATED STUDIES

​Related Literature and Studies The Internet as a source of information plays an important role in developing one's mind and life experiences by creating productive works in schools, offices, and even at home. Nowadays, this can be a person's most efficient strategic tool for enabling himself to take charge and cope with the fast growing technology.The fact that people live in on informative lifestyle where everything is updated, internet became one of the necessities of human beings regardless of age or sex in today's society. However, the influence of this useful machine on youth is undeniably questionable. As to what Rock said, all these technologies are very good at distracting people. In line with this development, online gaming was created to give entertainment to people.

Students' learning takes place unexpectedly, but the inappropriate usage of playing online games also leads to some problems such as being distracted in school.

Further, it is where the attention of the child was divided that even their health and social life is unknowingly affected.The researchers felt the need to determine the impact of online gaming to students' academic performance. The purpose of this study is to find out the implications of on-line gaming to academic performance. Much of the controversy about games centers around their impact on academic performance.

More than half of the American population and a billion people worldwide are playing games and the number is increasing because of the fast growing portable devices. People play mobile games for a number of reasons, stress relief, challenge

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and competition, relaxation, enjoyment, social interaction, and even mentally escaping from the real world. The academic performance and cognitive consequences of playing mobile games have been an ongoing debate in both the educational environment and the public, while it is still arguable whether playing mobile games actually affects student’s academic performance, recent studies of many educators have considered digital games as an educational tool to foster student’s learning interests and motivation and deliver different levels of knowledge more effectively. Studies have shown that motivation is a crucial catalyst for learning success and correlated with academic achievement. In addition, found that the number of genres played is associated with academic performance in examinations, that is, gamers who play four or more game genres generally perform less well in examinations. The electronic devices or systems used to play video games are called video game platforms. The well-known gaming platforms include personal computers, consoles, Nintendo’s Wii, Sony’s PlayStation, and Microsoft’s Xbox, and even mobile devices,, Android-based and iOS devices conducted a study to examine the association between adolescents’ computer and Internet activities and computer literacy, knowledge and skills to complete tasks with a computer technology.

As of today, most people relate online games to low academic performance.

Through the years, studies have yielded different results. Some of them say that they are correlated when some say that they are not. At times, the students defend the games they are playing by saying that they do learn something from it. A paper from EDUCAUSE backs these students up by suggesting that the faculty learn and know about these games so as to help students in in class learning experience. Furthermore,

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another paper claims that these games are not just for entertainment .They claim that these games may be used to learn and experience different things and interact with other people and belong to a virtual community. Addicted gamers spend so much time playing that their personal relationships get neglected and sometimes disappear altogether. Among Addicted gamers who are married, up to 50 percent report a strain in their marriage as a result of their addiction. Addicted gamers also neglect the responsibilities of everyday life such as school and work.

One of the popular mobile games is Mobile Legends that is powered by MOBA. MOBA games are a subgenre of real-time strategy games in which two teams, typically consisting of five players each, compete against each other with each player controlling a single character. Contrary to real-time strategy games, there is no unit or building construction in a MOBA game, so much of the strategy revolves around individual character development and cooperative team play.

The effects of playing mobile legend both negative and positive effects this study can use as the references and/or source of your related literature to conduct.

Mindfulness Based mobile applications literature review and. We searched online vendor markets, scientific journal databases, and grey literature related to mbmas. We included mobile applications that featured a mindfulness based component related to training or daily practice of mindfulness techniques.

MOBA is already on the “to-do list” of online gamers today. This game has met people's expectations in looking for a perfect way to spend time with their family, friends or even people they don’t know. This is because you could also turn on your mic and communicate with each other while in the game.

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Based on studies, MOBA has positive effects on a person. However, using too much of this can cause a lot of problems to your health and even relationships with other people. Always remember that REAL LIFE DEFEAT is far different from ONLINE GAMES DEFEAT. The effects of mobile games play a big impact on academic performance and students must be well aware of that.

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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

​Research Design

The study is a descriptive type approach of qualitative research. It involves gathering and analyzing data based on the answers from the given survey of the respondents. The process of descriptive research went beyond collection and tabulation of data. This approach would determine the effectiveness of our study.

Research Environment The researchers' study will be conducted at Asian College of Technology, 710 Bulacao Talisay City Cebu.

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Respondents of the Study The subject of the researchers are Junior High School students in Asian College of Technology who play Mobile Legends . The researchers will survey at least 70 respondents.

Research Instrument The researchers will use specific instruments to gather data. It includes the following: 1.

Interview Questionnaires- This tool is used to collect data or information and to

know things that can affect playing mobile legends.

2.

Observation- This tool is used in the selection and recording of behavior of the

students. This is useful in generating descriptions and obtaining information.

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Data Gathering Procedure The researchers gathered data by making interview questionnaires or surveys.

As the questions were already made, the researchers passed them out to the respondents. Their answers would be collected and analyzed.

Pros: The researchers would have enough time in gathering information.

Cons: Some of the respondents would improperly answer some of the questions, this would result in unreliable or questionable data.

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CHAPTER IV PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA

This chapter talks about the data that has been gathered. When the researchers already have their subjects with the address of consent letter, the researchers immediately passed out survey questions regarding the study.

1.

OFTEN/FREQUENCY

FREQUENCY

PERCENTAGE

ALWAYS

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26%

OFTEN

18

26%

SOMETIMES

19

27%

RARELY

15

21%

PLAYING MOBILE LEGENDS

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As shown in the table, it reveals that the majority (27%) of the respondents answered they “sometimes” play Mobile Legends, 26% answered “always” same to those who answered “often”. While 21% answered “rarely”.

2..

AVERAGE TIME

FREQUENCY

PERCENTAGE

LESS THAN 1 HOUR

29

41%

2-3 HOURS

21

30%

4-5 HOURS

13

19%

6 OR MORE HOURS

7

10%

SPAN PLAYING MOBILE LEGENDS PER DAY

As shown in the table, it reveals that the majority (41%) of the respondents answered that they play Mobile Legends less than 1hour per day. 30% of them played 2-3 hours, 19% to those who played 4-5 hours while only 10% of the respondents played 6 or more hours.

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RECENT GRADING

FREQUENCY

PERCENTAGE

9O AND ABOVE

17

24%

89-80

36

51%

79-75

10

14%

74 below

0

0%

Prefer not to answer

7

10%

AVERAGE

As shown in the table, it reveals that the majority (51%) of the respondents got an 89-80 grading average, 24% has received 90 and above, 14% for 79-75. 10% of the respondents preferred not to answer while none got a grade of 74 below.

SKIP SCHOOL DUE

FREQUENCY

PERCENTAGE

YES

14

20%

NO

56

80%

TO MOBILE LEGENDS

As shown in the table, it reveals that 80% of the respondents do not skip school for Mobile Legends while 14% skip school for Mobile Legends.

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CHAPTER V SUMMARY, CONCLUSION & RECOMMENDATION

Summary This study was conducted to determine the Influence of Mobile Legends to the Academic Performance of selected JHS Students in Asian College of Technology. The researchers used a descriptive type of qualitative research to determine the influence of Mobile Legends to the academic performance of students. The study was conducted at Asian

College

of

Technology,

Bulacao

Campus.

Researchers

used

survey

questionnaires to gather data, a total of 35 respondents were selected in the study. We used tables to tally down the frequency and percentage to be used for tabulating and interpreting the data.

SUMMARY OF FINDINGS After the data were tabulated, analyzed and interpreted, these are the following findings.

1.

How many sessions does a gamer spends on playing online games in

terms of: 2.1 Frequency. A total of 35 respondents were surveyed. Majority (27%) of the respondents answered they “sometimes” play Mobile Legends and the least (21%) answered that they “always” play Mobile Legends same to those who play “rarely”.

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2.2 Average Time Span. Majority (41%) of the respondents answered that they play Mobile Legends less than 1 hour per day and the least (10%) answered that they play Mobile Legends 6 or more hours per day.

2.

How does Mobile Legends affect the academic performance of Junior High

School students in terms of:

2.1 Average grade for the recent period. Majority (51%) of the respondents got 89-80 grading average and the least (14%) received a grade of 79-75, 10% of the respondents preferred not to answer while none got a grade of 74 below.

2.2 Absences in school. It reveals that 80% of the respondents do not skip school for Mobile Legends while 20% skip school for Mobile Legends. Majority of the respondents answered NO.

Conclusion Based on the above-mentioned findings, the researchers conclude that the majority of the respondents play Mobile Legends “sometimes”. Most of the respondents answered that they play Mobile Legends less than 1 hour per day. Also, most of the respondents got an 89-80 grading average. Lastly, the majority of the respondents do not skip or miss class for Mobile Legends. Thus, the hypothesis is accepted that there is no significant negative influence between playing Mobile Legends to the academic performance of students.

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Recommendation Playing Mobile Legends really has a positive and negative effect in our lives. The researchers recommend that students can play mobile games as long as they know how to manage their time productively so it won’t affect their academic performance.

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Appendices Letter of Approval

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