Academic Challenges & Online Educational Support

• This paper is a qualitative research paper.
• The paper studies the impact of YouTube educational content on academically challenged students.

Background of the Study

• Students should be recognized for perseverance and ability to progress despite adversity.
• Adversity is a part of life.
• Individuals are set apart by perseverance, resolve and adaptability.
• Social media has allowed people to easily share feelings, information, ideas, images and videos.
• YouTube, established in 2005, has become the most popular internet video sharing website.
• MOOCs have become trends in education. Massive open online courses include Coursera, EdX, Udacity and Udemy.
• Video-based instructional content is available on online platforms.
• YouTube is a primary type of social media in education, which creates dynamic opportunities for teaching and learning.
• YouTube tutorials are a growing trend, which highlights videos as engaging teaching tools.
• YouTube is a popular online platform for accessing video tutorials.
• YouTube videos have emerged as tools in higher education because of its ability to provide content that enhance the understanding of information.
• Current research highlights a need for active learning strategies to maximize the educational potential of videos because traditional YouTube videos tend to create passive learning experiences.
• YouTube videos can improve student engagement, learning outcomes, and satisfaction when used with active learning strategies.
• YouTube videos may provide students with greater artistic freedom and inspire them to put forth increased effort.
• YouTube is changing how students connect and learn.
• The Philippines is a significant social media user, especially YouTube.
• Filipinos mainly use YouTube for entertainment but the pandemic caused videos to play a role in academics.
• Educators and learners widely use videos to offer opportunities, involvement, teaching, visual aids, and material dissemination improvements.
• YouTube's appeal includes comprehensive content, catering to learning levels, and enhance learner motivation.
• The study analyzes how YouTube is used among senior high school students of grade 11.
• The research determines how YouTube assists students in understanding topics that are difficult for people to fathom.
• The study considers the evolving influence of technology, specifically YouTube, in the educational system in the Philippines.
• This study provides substantial views on using YouTube as a tool for learning and knowledge for academically challenged students in grade 11.
• The study provides evidence that YouTube is a source of knowledge.
• The study shows the positive impacts of using YouTube.

Statement of the Problem

• The study aims to explore the impacts that affect the Students Academic Performance with the use of Youtube Educational Content of Grade 11 students from Don Bosco Technical Institute - Victorias. Specifically it aims to answer the following:
• What are the impacts of using Youtube educational content to the academic performance of Grade 11 students?
• Positive impacts
• Negative impacts
• How is Youtube Educational Content used as a reliable source of knowledge in the academic life of the Grade 11 students?
• How can YouTube educational content assist Grade 11 students facing academic challenges and enhance the structure and reliability of their learning experience?

Significance of the Study

• Students will gain information about the impacts that affect YouTube.
• Educators will gain knowledge and integrate YouTube into teaching. It creates learning environments that cater to the needs of students and academic difficulties.
• Parents and Guardians will gain knowledge from study results that show that YouTube is used to improve skills including English vocabulary, grammar and mathematics.
• Future Researchers can use the study to provide further clues for researchers, as this study focuses on the impact of YouTube educational content on students with difficulties.

Scope and Delimitation

• This study will focus on impacts of educational content on the learning outcomes and academic performance of Grade 11 students at Don Bosco Technical Institute - Victorias City school in 2024-2025.
• The researchers will use convenience sampling of ten Grade 11 students.
• The researchers will only use YouTube educational content as a primary social media app to be used in the study.

Theoretical Framework

• The theoretical framework investigates how utilizing YouTube affects academically challenged students.
• The framework integrates learning theories to describe how YouTube affects students that are having a hard time catching up.
• Three theories are reviewed.
• Uses and Gratification Theory suggests that individuals select media, such as YouTube educational videos, to satisfy needs and provide autonomy.
• Media Richness Theory suggests communication is more effective when the medium is richer, creating assistance in understanding concepts.
• The Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning believes that students learn more when they connect verbal and visual information.
• The Uses and Gratification Theory (UGT) explains how people use media for their needs and get satisfaction when needs are fulfilled.
• This theory emphasizes choosing media and content to satisfy specific needs.
• Individuals are not passive recipients of messages.
• Individuals are proactive participants in media consumption for information, entertainment, social interaction, and personal identity.
• The Media Richness Theory (MRT) explains that performance improves when team members use richer media for equivocal tasks.
• This theory examines the impact of YouTube educational content and conveys complex information through rich media.
• The Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning is developed by Richard Mayer.
• The theory states that people learn more effectively from words and pictures than words alone by combining verbal and visual information.
• YouTube educational content incorporates vocal explanations and visual aids to enhance learning by reducing cognitive overload.
• The three theories underscore the effectiveness of YouTube, which is interactive, multimedia-rich format in accommodating learning preferences.
• YouTube content delivery aligns with teaching strategies, student involvement, and addressing needs.
• The theories contribute and prove YouTube is a helpful tool.

Conceptual Framework

• The study illustrates the investigation of impacts of YouTube content on Grade 11 students, which involves student experiences with videos to enhance learning across subjects.
• The study examines experiences that influence student engagement and comprehension by assessing factors and influence elements on student progress.

Definition of Terms

• Academic Performance refers to the level of student achievement in education that contains grades, test scores and evaluations.
• Operationally, academic performance is a student's success in meeting academic expectations.
• Cognitive refers to the mental operations used in learning, processing, storing, and using information.
• Operationally, cognitive is the mental processes involved in acquiring, processing, and applying knowledge and skills.
• Educational Content is knowledge that is best learned through engagement with content that should be relevant to the learner's experiences.
• Operationally, it impacts learning, student development, and cognitive development.
• Learning Outcomes are the specific skills or abilities students should display after learning, ensuring alignment to goals
• Operationally, having positive academic results students are expected to achieve.
• Media is the educational settings that include printed materials, digital platforms, and classroom settings.
• Operationally, the effects of various media types on student engagement and learning outcomes in an educational setting.
• Multimedia Learning is when a learner builds a representation from words and pictures that have been presented.
• Operationally, the process through which learners build knowledge by integrating information from words and pictures, based on cognitive theories of processing.
• Student Engagement is the most educational programs that have used media and learning resources.
• Operationally, it helps students understand that media, provides a platform that enhances learning.
• YouTube is the platform to play videos by uploading content to a channel and interacting with other users.
• Operationally, it is utilized as a learning tool that aids students in understanding complex topics through simple videos.

Review of Literature

• The studies relate to the integration of technology in education, focusing on YouTube as a resource for challenged students.
• It explores research on how educational videos can impact student engagement, learning, outcomes, and developing skills to enhance learning.

The Use of YouTube as an Educational Tool for Learning

• Research from international and national studies emphasizes the effects of YouTube as an tool, particularly for students who face academic challenges.
• International studies such as "Students' Perceptions of Multimedia Usage in Teaching and Learning Quantum Physics" suggest that videos enhance understanding of subjects by simplifying concepts.
• "Enhancing Entrepreneurship Education with Innovatively Designed YouTube Videos" demonstrates YouTube fosters improved learning outcomes, catering to needs.
• Studies reveal that teacher-created videos offer students a self-paced learning experience, improving their learning.
• "YouTube Integration in Science Classes: Understanding Its Roots, Ways, and Selection Criteria" shows how teachers select videos to clarify topics and enhance student learning.
• These studies highlight YouTube’s ability to engage students, simplify learning, and positively impact educational outcomes.

Exploring YouTube's Reliability as an Educational Resource

• Studies emphasize YouTube's potential as an educational tool impacting challenged students, which demonstrates that YouTube can effectively spread information by assessing video reliability.
• YouTube enhanced anatomy education by offering good videos that made complex subjects accessible.
• Ancheta highlighted YouTube's role in remote learning ensuring student engagement and educational continuity.
• These studies illustrate that YouTube carefully selected, can support diverse learning needs, especially for academically challenged students.

How YouTube Supports Self-Directed Learning for Academically Challenged Students

• Studies emphasize the significance of self-regulated learning (SRL) and its impact on student academic development.
• SRL involves taking ownership of learning by setting goals, strategizing, and reflecting.
• Platforms like YouTube can support SRL, especially providing opportunities to engage with content and make learning materials.

Research Synthesis

• Research from international and national highlight YouTube as an tool, particularly for challenged.
• Studies demonstrate how YouTube simplifies subjects providing engaging, easily content. Ancheta that YouTube’s role in maintaining student engagement during remote learning. Research reveals videos self-paced, nature aids in subjects helping them understand. highlighting of self-regulated (SRL), where students take of their process by setting selecting and reflecting on.

Methodology

• Research design provides the methodologies and procedures to conduct a study. This research examines the impact of YouTube educational content on the development of media literacy.
• The study is a qualitative research, specifically phenomenological research.
• The study investigates the data gathered about the impacts that contribute to a Grade 11 students' academic performance.
• Phenomenological research systematically investigate the experiences of students facing academic difficulties.

Research Locale

• This study will be conducted within Don Bosco Technical Institute-Victorias Inc., with an estimated student population of 800 in a rural area.
• The respondents will be selected from a group and interviewed on the school's grounds.
• The study will be executed during the 2024-2025 school year

Participants of the Study

• Participants are selected from a population that serves as the basis for research, ensuring that the findings are reliable for future studies.
• In this study, the target participants are from Grade 11 of Don Bosco Technical Institute
• The following are the criteria.
• Students in Grade 11 in the 2024-2025 school year.
• Students attend Don Bosco Technical Institute of Victorias.
• Students identified as challenged.
• Students have experience with online learning.
• A sample of the population will participate in in-depth-group interviews, which will represent the data population as a whole.

Research Instrument

• The research instrument involves semi-structured interviews with ten participants.
• Interviews are used to gain understanding of beliefs and experiences.
• The interviews focus on student's engagement with YouTube educational content, perceived benefits and challenges, and impacts on academic performance.
• Questions will address challenges, engagement with YouTube learning, and impact of content.
• Open-ended questions allows for in-depth topics, with follow ups, which encourages detailed answers.

Data Gathering Procedure

• A comprehensive and formal interview is conducted with grade 11 students during the Data Gathering Procedure. Researchers will employ the usage of semi-structured interviews with the participants for this interview approach.
• A semi structured interview entails the use of a data collection method, which sets out to pose a range of open ended questions to students. This is followed up with probe questions to explore the topics of interest.
• Qualitative researchers use semi-structured interviews to collect new data and delve into relevant thoughts and beliefs about a particular subject topic.

Data Analysis

• This takes place through thematic analysis. Data is systematically put in sections that leads to the discussion and analysis of findings.

Ethical Considerations

• Studies are accordance with ethical protocols, before conducting the interview as students are briefed in study's reasonable ethics. Participants will decide whether or not to partake in consent form of study.
• Researchers that keep interview confidential from animosity and distress must keep it participant identity anonymous.

The central idea is how students face academic challenges and how online educational platforms can assist them. Social media, YouTube, and MOOCs play a role in supporting students. Effective approaches and the integration of learning theories are also important.