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    This document discusses a study that examined the effect of a "No Cellphone Policy" on the academic performance of Grade 10 students at Villa Aglipay National High School (VANHS) in the Philippines. The policy, implemented in August 2018, banned cellphone use by students during class hours. The study aimed to determine how this policy impacted academic performance by comparing student grades and surveys before and after implementation. Previous related foreign and local studies that found banning cellphones improved test scores, especially for lower-achieving students, were also reviewed to provide context.

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    This document discusses a study that examined the effect of a "No Cellphone Policy" on the academic performance of Grade 10 students at Villa Aglipay National High School (VANHS) in the Philippines. The policy, implemented in August 2018, banned cellphone use by students during class hours. The study aimed to determine how this policy impacted academic performance by comparing student grades and surveys before and after implementation. Previous related foreign and local studies that found banning cellphones improved test scores, especially for lower-achieving students, were also reviewed to provide context.

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    This document discusses a study that examined the effect of a "No Cellphone Policy" on the academic performance of Grade 10 students at Villa Aglipay National High School (VANHS) in the Philippines. The policy, implemented in August 2018, banned cellphone use by students during class hours. The study aimed to determine how this policy impacted academic performance by comparing student grades and surveys before and after implementation. Previous related foreign and local studies that found banning cellphones improved test scores, especially for lower-achieving students, were also reviewed to provide context.

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    THE EFFECT OF “NO CELLPHONE POLICY” ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

    OF GRADE 10 STUDENTS OF VILLA AGLIPAY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL (VANHS)

    INTRODUCTION

    (MENDEZ AND BALAGTAS, 2019). In this modern generation, abrupt advancement of technology
    is observed. School administrators and teachers noticed that students nowadays, use cellular phones for
    leisure rather than for emergency and educational purposes. In view of this prevailing issue, the school
    implemented the “No Cellphone Policy” last august 2018 which aims to improve the academic
    performance of students. In this study, we wanted to know acceptability level and effect of No
    Cellphone Policy to the academic performance of students.
    Technology is advancing quickly, and the ubiquitous use of cellphones, in particular, has
    transformed communication and information accessibility. Concerns regarding the influence of this
    technological change on students academic performance have been voiced, nevertheless. To address
    these issue, schools all across the world have started implementing “No Cellphone Policy” in schools.
    The purpose of this study is to access hos a “No Cellphone Policy” at VANHS affects students in Grade
    10’s academic performance.
    Like many educational institutions, Villa Aglipay National High Schools struggles to control
    smartphone usage among its students. Students in all grade levels are not allowed to use cellphones
    during class hour at VANHS: for the following; a.) in order to improve the study environment; b.) to
    reduce distractions and increase students academic participation; c.) and this policy prohibits the use of
    mobile devices in the classroom.

    SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

    This study is significant for several reasons. Firstly it will contribute to the existing body of
    knowledge on the impact of cellphone use on academic performance, specially focusing on Grade 10
    students of VANHS. The finding will provide valuable insights for educational institutions, administrators,
    teachers, and parents in making informed decisions regarding the implementation of cellphones
    policies. Additionally, the study will help identify any potential benefits or drawbacks of implementing a
    no cellphone policy, thereby enabling development of effective strategies to enhance student’s
    academic performance.

    SCOPE OF THE STUDY

    This investigations will take place at Villa Aglipay National High School (VANHS), with a particular
    emphasis on students in Grade 10. The majority of the research findings will be based on quantitative
    data collected through academic records and surveys. The likelihood of self-reporting biases in the
    questionnaires and the inability to control outside variables that can affect student’s academic
    achievement are a couple of the study’s shortcomings that should be noted.

    PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVE


    Its goal is to determine how the no-cellphone rule at Villa Aglipay National High School (VANHS)
    affects the academic performance of Grade 10 students. The goal is to determine whether preventing
    smartphone use in the classroom has favorable affect on student involvement, focus, and learning
    results as a whole. This study aims to offer important insights into the potential advantages of restricting
    cellphone use during class time, ultimately adding to the ongoing discussion on effective strategies for
    boosting student learning and achievement in secondary education settings. This is done by comparing
    the academic performance of students before and after the policy was put into place.

    REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

    FOREIGN

    (Beland, 2021), stated on his study titled Banning Mobile Phone in Schools Can Improve
    Students’ Academic Performance, that banning of mobile phones at school leads to an increase in
    students performance. Our results suggest that after schools ban mobile phones, test scores of students
    aged 16 increased by 6.4% of a standard deviation. This is equivalent to adding five days to the school
    year or an additional hour a week. He also added that the effects were twice as large for low achieving
    students, and they found no impact on high achieving students.
    (MURPHY, 2016), this paper investigates the impact of schools banning mobile phones on
    students test scores. By surveying schools in four English cities regarding their mobile phone policies and
    combining it with administrative data, we adopt a difference in differences (DID) strategy, exploiting
    variations in schools’ autonomous decisions to ban these devices, conditioning on a range of student
    characteristics and prior achievement. We find that student performance in high stakes exams
    significantly increases post ban, by about 0.07 standard deviations on average. These increases in
    performance are driven by the lowest achieving students. This suggest that the unstructured presence
    of phones has detrimental effects on certain students and restricting their use can be low-cost policy to
    reduce educational inequalities.
    Soyemi Jumoke, et. al.(2015), emphasizes on the usage of the internet on Mobile Phones. This
    research was conducted to find the correlation between the academic performance and usage of Mobile
    Phones by the students of Ogun state in Nigeria. The findings indicated that students are influenced
    negatively to a great extent by the Mobile Phone because attention is focused on chatting, music and
    others while their academic activities are neglected and left to suffer.
    (THE EDUCATOR, 2021), throughout 2020, public school students in South Australia, Western
    Australia, Victoria and Tasmania were instructed not to bring their mobile phones to class, unless the are
    needed for class activity. NSW also banned smart phones in public primary schools but had given
    secondary students the option to bring phones to class since the start of last year.

    LOCAL

    (MENDEZ AND BALAGTAS, 2019), respondents perceived the highest acceptability level with an
    average weighted mean of 2.25 on No Cellphone Policy in terms of socialization. Respondents also
    agreed on No Cellphone Policy in terms of academic performance and health with 2.17 and 2.11 average
    weighted means, respectively. From the 76 respondents, 37 or 48.68% increased, 15 or 19.74% retained
    and 24 or 31.58% decreased in academic performance during the second quarter. The study found that
    there is a significant difference between the academic performance of the students during the first
    quarter without No Cellphone Policy and second quarter with No Cellphone Policy. It was also found
    that most of the students’ general weighted average during the second quarter is higher that the first
    quarter.
    Managyo (2017), stated the, Filipinos are using their mobile phones not only to communicate
    but also as mobile computers as well, according to a recent market study issued. TNS, a global
    customized research company, said in its report that Filipino consumers are not must using cellphones
    to call and texting messages and photos, but also as a means to have internet on-the-go, allowing users
    to be always online. Of the 38,000 respondents in Metro Manila, 75 percent of the respondents
    surveyed used mobile phones to take photos or videos; 44 percent to access their social networking
    sites and 37 percent to check their emails.

    REVIEW OF RELATED STUDIES

    FOREIGN STUDIES
    Kessel, Dany Lif Hardardottir, Hulda Tyrefors<Bjorn (2019) Recently, policy makers worldwide
    have suggested and passed legislation to ban mobile phone use in schools. The influential and only
    quantitative evaluation by Beland and Murphy (2016), suggests that this is a very low-cost but effective
    policy to improve students performance. In particular, it suggests that the lowest-achieving students
    have the most to gain.
    (KIEMA, 2015) Proponents of banning cellphones in schools believed the potential benefits of
    cellphones are outweighed by concerns of negatively impacted student learning, cheating,
    cyberbullying, sexting and the distraction posed to teachers and students.

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