CHAPTER 1

THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

Introduction

Internet has been in existence since 1950. This began with point to point communication between main frame computers and terminals, expanded to point to point connections between computers and the early research into packet switching. Packed switched networks such as ARPANET, Mark I, Merit network, Tymnet and Telenet were developed in late 1960’s and early 1970’s using a variety of protocols. Until now, internet has been using and it is still on the road of innovation.

Nowadays, World Wide Web is used for the students’ reference and studies. They search in the internet what they want. In just one click, thousands of answer comes out. On the other hand, few students use books as their reference. Some of them do not want to browse authentic books, hundreds of books in the library just to find the answer in their question. Instead, they just use internet to find their answer easily. Moreover, Internet is faster and efficient. You will spend hours finding the right authentic book for the answer in your question but you can also find answers in the internet with just one click.

Both are forms of research. There are reasons behind why students must stay with authentic books but there are also reasons why they must choose internet. Internet will continue revolutionize the world even in the fields of study.

Statement of the Problem

Nowadays, students chose internet as their reference in their studies. Truly,

technology already conquered the world even in the fields of study.

In this study, we identified major and minor problems that may occur when they use internet as their reference. The researchers’ major problem is why do students choose internet as a study tool over authentic books. Then, their minor problems are Is internet really reliable than authentic books? And does the students consume or waste time in searching the information?

Significance of the Study

This study is significant especially for the students who prefers internet as their reference instead of books.

Students. For them to decide what must they choose between books and internet as their reference. For them to be aware on what is more reliable between the two.

Teachers. For them to decide on what must they recommend to their students as a source of knowledge and answers for their questions.

nstitution. For them to provide another mean or medium of learning tool in their institution.

Parents. For them to guide their son/s and daughter/s if they choose internet as a reference.

To the future researchers. For them to understand why some students chose internet as a source of knowledge and learning, through gathering data and researches.

Scope and Delimitation

This study, as the researchers finalize, their study will just cover our institution, Dr. Yanga’s Colleges Inc.

This will also cover the students who use internet as their reference instead of authentic books. The researchers will cover 100 students inside the campus to conduct a survey.

Moreover, this study will just cover the factors why student chose internet as reference rather than books.

This study will not cover the students under college and elementary but instead they will just conduct an activity or surveys for the high school students and some teachers.

CHAPTER 2

CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

Review of Related Studies and Literature

Education these days has been the top priority for any family or individual

person and no doubt among the largest technologies to promote and maintain the education standards, the internet comes first.

Before the researchers’ generation, many studies pertaining to the people’s choice towards the internet as their basis of their studies or reference itself.

Mitra and Steffensmeier (2000) concluded that a networked learning institution where students have easy access to computers could foster positive attitudes toward the use of computers in teaching and learning. They found that a computer-enriched learning environment was positively correlated with students' attitudes toward computers in general, and the role of computers in facilitating teaching and learning.

Moreover, Liu, Macmillan, and Timmons (1998) perceived integrating computers into a learning system as a complex instructional system in which student learning is impacted by lecturers, students, administrative and technical staff, computer hardware and software resources, and the computer laboratory and classroom settings. They reported that students' with positive attitudes toward using computers also have positive attitudes toward using computers for their learning.

In addition, Before the internet, conducting research for school, work or out of curiosity involved a set of encyclopedias and a trip to the library. However, people now live in an age where information is readily accessible from your computer.

On the Web, you can find information about any topic you desire. The World Wide Web is a huge database of user–submitted content where you can access an astronomical number of informative sources, online groups and multi-media. Because all of the content on the internet is self-submitted, and there are very few regulations as to what a person can and can’t publish (depending on local laws), content found on the Web may be inaccurate and opinion based. Nevertheless, the internet should not be disregarded when conducting academic research. It is a major source for scholarly journals, current news, books, credible magazines, general information and other relevant content. Hypothesis The researchers, formulate a hypothesis base on our concern or problem, What are the facors affecting the students to use internet rather than books? Or Why students choose internet as their learning tool?

The researchers have Ho or the null hypothesis and Ha or the alternative hypothesis. Their null hypothesis is that internet is reliable, not time consuming, satisfying and affordable. Then, their alternative hypothesis is that authentic books are more reliable, not time consuming, satisfying and affordable.

Conceptual Framework

FIGURE1. The Independent and Dependent Variable

Defenition of Terms

Accessible- providing access.

Authentic Books- these are the literary books that we usually see inside the library.

Correlate- either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other.

Curiosity- desire to know

E-book- a book composed in or converted to digital format for display on a computer screen or handheld device.

Education- the action or process of educating or of being educated

Hardware- Computer machinery and equipment, including memory, cabling, power supply, peripheral devices, and circuit boards.

Internet- an electronic communications network that connects computer networks and organizational computer facilities around the world.

Lecture- a discourse given before an audience or class especially for instruction.

Multimedia- Computer-delivered electronic system that allows the user to control, combine, and manipulate different types of media, such as text, sound, video, computer graphics, and animation.

Network- a system of computers, peripherals, terminals and databases connected by communication lines

Reference- the act of referring or consulting

Reliable- suitable or fit to be relied on : Dependable

Search- to look into or thoroughly make an effort to find or discover something.

Software- is the entire set of programs, procedures, and routines associated with the operation of a computer system, including the operating system.

Technology- Application of knowledge to the practical aims of human life or to changing and manipulating the human environment.

User Friendly- Easily used and accesible.

World Wide Web- a part of the Internet accessed through a graphical user interface and containing documents often connected by hyperlinks —called also Web

CHAPTER 3

METHODOLOGY

Research Method

The researchers conducted a method that gave them clear result about the topic they are researching. The researchers surveyed one hundred students of Dr. Yanga’s Colleges Inc. The questionnaire includes quetions that can answer of how many students use internet as their reference instead of authentic books. Secondly, they created some follow up questions for each of the excerpt with the same level of difficulty and at the same time, easy enough to be answered by the chosen 100 students. At the bottom part of the questionnaire, the students were asked to rank different reasons on why they use internet as a reference instead of books. As 1 being the best reason and 5 as the simpliest reason on why students chose to use internet as their learning tool.

The reasearchers also used this kind of method, quota method which allows the researchers to give 10 survey forms to the top 10 students of each class. In the 1st year and the 2nd year level, they chose the first three sections in the said year level. While in the 3rd and 4th year level, they chose the first two sections.

Research Purpose

In this study, the researchers target to prove or at least explain the reason that occurs why the students tend to use internet rather than books as a learning tool. The purpose of this study is as follow: 1. This study aims to look for the factors why the students use internet as their learning tool thus, books are also good as reference. 2. The use for these expected factors will be further discussed in the study’s significance. 3. The research also hopes to make the students to be aware of this factors and the things that urge them to use internet.

Population of the Study This research mostly relied on primary sources. The sample population of interest of this study are the 100 students from the selected 3 sections of the first year, 3 sections of the second year, and 2 sections from both 3rd and 4th year level, student of Dr. Yanga’s Colleges Inc., The researchers selected the top ten students of chosen class of Dr. Yanga’s Colleges Inc because they are the one who usually excel in class and they know more on what reference must use. Their minds are currently cravings for more information about the thing they dont know. The factors given by researchers greatly affect these students. The participants in this experiment have different reasons. Some can use books, some are using the internet.

Research Instrument

he researchers made use of an experimentation and a survey where they have two excerpts that the student which the student will comprehend. The questions in each excerpt are just easy consisting of Yes or No, ranking and analysis. The questions are to test if the students usually use internet and the reasons why they used it. And the survey serves to finalize the factors towards using the internet.

The good things about conducting experiments with regard on the topic, rather than survey is that we are able to distinguish faster the reason behind using the internet.

The researchers could also see clearly the result of this experiment. That could also get the data’s they needed right away.

Statistical Treatment of Data

The researchers used different ways in solving and computing datas. They used these to make clear tables and charts to present the clear datas of their research. These are as follows:

Mean Average- Get first the product of every ranking then add them all and divide it into 100, the number of respondents.

MA=(R)(N)/100

R-Rank (1-5), N-number of votes, MA-Mean Average

Percentage- Quantity multiplied by 100 and divide it by 100.

%=(Q)(100)/100

%- percent symbol

Q- quantity multiply by 100 and divide by 100.

CHAPTER 4

PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA

As what explained on the previous chapter, students were the sample of this research which the researchers had surveyed. They were the DYCIans who use internet as their learning tool and using internet as their form of research in assignments, project or any studies. From these students, the researchers came up to the study result.

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The graph above which is the result of the conducted survey shows the number of the students who use internet as medium of getting knowledge. The percentage of YES is 97% while 3% who answered NO. Somehow, these 3% are using internet but they are not satisfied with the answers given by the internet.

[pic] The chart above which is the result of the conducted survey shows hours spent by a student in searching the answers for their questions and getting informations. There are 67% of the students spent ½ to one hour of surfing to find the information. Then, 22% of the students spent two hours just to find the informations. Third, 8% of the students spent 3 hours while 3% spent 4 hours of searching.

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The chart above which is the result of the conducted survey shows the number of the students who are satisfied with the given answer of the internet whenever they are researching. There are 87% of the 100 students who are satisfied with the answers given by the internet while 17% of 100 students were not.

[pic] The chart above which is the result of the conducted survey shows the number of the students who understand the answers or the informations given by the internet. There are 90% of 100 the students who understand the informations sited in the internet and there are only 10% of 100 who don’t.

Table 1.0 Factors and its Ranking and Mean Average

| |1 |2 |3 |4 |5 |MEAN AVERAGE |
|RELIABLE |28 |28 |19 |15 |10 |2.51 |
|NOT TIME CONSUMING |20 |30 |22 |11 |17 |2.75 |
|USER FRIENDLY |23 |13 |22 |20 |22 |3.05 |
|AFFORDABLE |13 |16 |17 |34 |20 |3.32 |
|APPROACHABLE |16 |13 |20 |20 |31 |3.37 |

The table above explains shows the ranking and the mean average. 1 means best reason while 5 is the simplest reason. Reliable got 2.51 which means it is the first best reason why students use internet while Not time consuming got 2.75 which means it is the third best reason. User friendly got 3.05, affordable got 3.32 and approachable is the last, 3.37.

CHAPTER V

SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

Summary of Findings

The researchers worked for the factors affecting why students use internet their learning tool for them to accomplish or to improve their education. As the previous chapter says, our method in gathering datas is by giving written surveys. After getting all the datas, we used to tally and compute the quantities to have proofs and to show the real answer why they use internet.

This study was accomplished by the use of internet to search for the datas and the studies of other researchers related to this study.

CONCLUSIONS

After several researches, studies and time, the researchers finally come up on the results and later, on to conclusion. As said in the previous chapter and also on the statement of the problem, the study purposely work to find factor affects why students chose Internet as their reference rather than books. The researchers finalized and concluded the factors that were in search in this study. The factors prioritize for this research is as follows: the reliable source of the information, not time consuming,affordable, satisfaction and approachable. All of them contribute on the students’ interest why they continously use internet. If the subject has more of these factors, then it is interesting. This statement is proven by the researchers and the participants themselves.

Likewise, the researchers’ Ho or the null hypothesis is accepted. Its just because base on the researchers’ surveys, it shows that the factor reliable got the highest while the not time consuming is second from the highest.

RECOMMENDATIONS

As the answers to the study have been concluded above, it is now time to find the use of these answers.

On the lead, after the conclusion, this study will benefit the students and on this topic in making them to choose internet because of its advantages than books.

In addition, this will also benefit the teachers and the managements of an institution so that in choosing what must they use for their learning instrument, they will take note what is more greater acquiring knowledge process.

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Internet over books as a learning tool

DEPENDENT
VARIABLE :

INDEPENDENT
VARIABLE :

People’s choice between books and internet.

Internet or Books