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THE ACADEMIC AFFECTATION OF THE USE Andrés Felipe González Espitia
OF CELL PHONES IN ELEVENTH-GRADE STUDENTS agonzalezespitia@gmail.com
Languages Department,
AT DULCE CORAZON DE MARIA SCHOOL Dulce Corazon de Maria School.
Villa de Leyva, Boyacá.
Materials and Methods
The project has a mixed-method approach, the type of
research is explanatory research, was developed at Dulce
Abstract Corazon de Maria school, located in Villa de Leyva, Boyacá. It
should be noted that the project was developed virtually in its
This article presents the results of the investigation that majority due to the covid-19 pandemic. The population was
identified the misuse of the cell phone affecting sixteen eleventh-grade students from Dulce Corazon de Maria
Eleventh-grade students at Dulce Corazon de Maria School in School. Thirteen students were chosen randomly to
academic aspects during quarantine, through the participate in the research. Direct observation was used as the
mixed-method approach, and explanatory research. It technique, and the instruments used were the field diary, 4
determined the different uses that make students affect their surveys and 1 videoconference. The objectives that were
academic performance during quarantine, also worked on in the first place the general objective was to
demonstrating when students misuse it in virtual classes. determine the main uses and affectation of the use of cell
Among other things, understand that students can be affected phones in the academic context during the quarantine. The
academically by telephone use, analyzing misuse as an specific objectives were, to identify when there is a misuse of
influence and academically affects the student. the phone in virtual classes, to understand how the student's
Keywords: Academic, affectation, cell phones, use of cell academic performance can be affected by the use of the
phone, students, school. phone, to analyze how the misuse of the phone affects
academic performance.
Resumen
Results
Este artículo presenta los resultados de la investigación que
identificó el mal uso que se da al celular afectando a los The data analysis was carried out in a mixed way, analyzing
estudiantes de grado once en el colegio Dulce Corazón de first the qualitative data and then the quantitative data, the
María en aspectos académicos durante la cuarentena, data analysis was divided into three categories 1) Misuse of
mediante el método de investigación mixta e investigación the cell phone.2) Consequences of excessive cell phone use.3)
explicativa. Determinó los distintos usos que hacen que los Effects of the cell phone academically. It was organized using
estudiantes afecten su rendimiento académico durante la tables and graphs, the tables described qualitative aspects
cuarentena, demostrando también cuando los estudiantes such as writings or answers, audios about their personal
incurren en el mal uso de este en las clases virtuales. Entre opinion and the graphs quantitative aspects about
otras cosas, entender que los estudiantes pueden verse percentages or analysis of graphs on multiple selection or in
afectados académicamente por el uso teléfono, analizando el some questions about yes, no or sometimes. Each graph or
mal uso como influencia y afecta académicamente al table corresponded to the designated category. Therefore, the
estudiante. qualitative information was analyzed first and then the
Palabras clave: Académico, afectación, teléfonos celulares, quantitative information, which confirmed the results
uso del celular, estudiantes, colegio. obtained in the qualitative information
Introduction Figure 1
In some cases, students make improper use of the cell phone
during classes, which affects their academic performance, in
addition to diverting the attention of the class by being aware
of other activities that are not corresponding to the classes, for
that reason and also because covid-19 pandemic, the study
context had to change from classroom education to virtual
education, which generated that students had an easier access
to do other activities not related to their classes or what is
proposed by the teacher or the academic field; this way the
cell phone affects the student academically, affecting poor
performance. In fact, teachers cannot see what students are
doing all the time, although there are very important cell In the previous graph it was possible to understand that most
phone applications because they allow student-teacher of the students sometimes misused the cell phone, due to the
communication. fact that they carried out practices or deviated from class with
