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October 1, 2014
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Student involvement, defined by Astin (1984), is the amount of physical and psychological
energy that the student devotes to the academic experience. This theory of Astin is broken down into five
different points or postulates:
1) Involvement refers to the investment of physical and psychological energy in
various objects.
2) Regardless of its object, involvement occurs along a continuum; that is different
students manifest different degrees of involvement in a given object.
3) Involvement has both quantitative and qualitative features.
4) The amount of student learning and personal development associated with any
educational program is directly proportional to the quality and quantity of student
involvement in that program.
5) The effectiveness of any educational policy or practice is directly related to the
capacity of that policy to increase student involvement.
These postulates, especially the third, fourth, and fifth, provide a basic structure and criteria as to
how Facebook fares as an extended academic platform to UP Diliman Freshman students. It can be
hypothesized that if Facebook is being continually used as an extended academic platform, then the
students overall Facebook use is more extensive and thus lessening their involvement in preparation for
class. Junco (2011) mentioned that the handful of studies already conducted about this have contradicting
results. However, he was able to show that some activities in Facebook improve on their student
involvement, while others have a negative effect on it.
For data gathering, an online survey will be used to gather information on the behavior of
freshman students towards the use of Facebook as a means of broadcasting or receiving academic
announcements, and their effects on the extent of Facebook use and involvement in preparing for class.
The projected sample size is 50 students, ideally with 50% male and 50% female respondents. In support
with the survey, interviews of around 2 to 3 students will be done to ensure the validity of the results, as
well as to concretize findings.
Research Problem
What effect does the use Facebook as an extended academic platform have for Freshman UP
Diliman students, in terms of student involvement?
Hypothesis
If students use Facebook as an extended academic platform then student involvement then there
will be a positive effect, improving student performance.
October 1, 2014
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