Smartphone utilization and mathemattics performance of junior high school students

Abstract

Smartphones have been extensively utilized by students in the context of mathematics education and it influences their academic achievement in the subject. These study assessed the smartphone utilization and mathematics performance of junior high school students at San Isidro National High School, utilizing descriptive-comparative research. A total of 153 respondents completed a survey questionnaire to measure smartphone utilization, while mathematics performance was evaluated based on first quarter grades in Math. Data analysis involved mean, Spearman's rho, Independent Samples Mann-Whitney U Test, and Kruskal Wallis Test. It was found that students had a moderate level of smartphone utilization. At 0.05 level of significance, it was found that there is no significant difference in the utilization of smartphone when classified by sex and type of smartphone. Thus, there is no significant relationship between smartphone utilization and mathematics performance of junior high school students.