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My Abstract:

College students are continually striving to see more and more job opportunities. Since the 80's more students are striving to have a job, and currently most students in college have jobs. However, working in college isn't beneficial. Lots of students who work part-time and part-time students have trouble paying for college, and find it difficult to do well in school. Students who lack the don't have the correct  mental approach to their work will not do well. Student's who were able to relate their work experiences to their academic learning would end up receiving higher academic achievements. Moreover, colleges and occupations only provided limited funding and it often comes with repercussions at the expense of the student. In terms of academics, students are more likely to dropout and not finish college over a six year period if they work part-time. In addition, students who work 20hrs+ (at least 70% of the student workers) or 10hrs and less, tend to have lower GPA's. Work provides students with an unnecessary distraction preventing them from preforming at the best of their ability, while simultaneously doing very little to actually help working student.

Works Cited

Bousquet, Marc. “Students Are Already Workers.” How the University Works:

Higher Education in the Low-Wage Nation. New York: NYU Press, 2008. 125-156. Print.

Dundes, L. and Marx, J. “Balancing Work and Academics in College: Why do

Students Working 10-19 Hours Per Week Excel?” Journal of College Student Retention, 8(1) (2006): 107-120

Hammond, Shawn. “Effects of Employment on Student Academic Success.”

 BYU Employment Services. (2006): 1-4. Print and Web.

Ibrahim, Norhayati. “Exploring the impact of Work Experience on Part-time

Student’s Academic Success in Malaysian Polytechnics.” Career and Technical Education Research 37 (2012): 52-74. Print and Web.

Kingkade, Tyler. “Most College Students Work Part-Time Jobs, But Few Pay Their

Way Through School: Poll.” The Huffington Post. (2013): n.pag. Web. 07 August 2013.

Nonis, Sarath A. Hudson, Gail I. “Academic Performance of College Students:

 Influence Time Spent Studying and Working.”  Journal of Education for Business. (2006), Vol.81 issue 3, 51-56. Print and Web.

Orszag, Jonathan et al. “Learning and Earning: Working in College.”

http://www.brockport.edu/career01/upromise.htm. Commissioned by Upromise. (2001). Web

O’Sullivan, Rory. Setzer, Reid. “A Federal Work Study Reform Agenda to Better Serve

Low-Income Students.” Young Invincibles. (2014): 2-14. Print and Web.

Pike, Gary R et al.  “First-Year Student’s Employment, Engagement, and Academic

 Achievement: Untangling the Relationship between Work and Grades.” NASPA Journal 45.2 (2008): 560-582. Proquest. Web. 03 March 2014. 

Ripley, Amanda. “How to Graduate from Starbucks.” The Atlantic (May 2015): 60-72.

Print and Web

“Rutgers Student Employment Office.” Studentwork.rutgers.edu. Web. 2015.

Scott-Clayton, Judith. Minaya, Veronica. “Should Student Employment Be Subsidized?

 Conditional Counterfactuals and the Outcomes of Work-Study Participation.” A CAPSEE Working Paper (2014): 1-34. Print and Web.

“Student Approaches to Learning & Studying- John Biggs.” Webcortland.edu. Web.

Wang et al. “The effects of doing Part-Time jobs on College Student Academic

Performance in a Chinese Society.” Journal of Education and Work. (2010) 79-94. Web

Weissmann, Jordan. “America’s Awful College Dropout Rates, in Four Charts.”

Slate.com. Web. 19 November 2014.

“Work-Study Jobs.” Federal Student Aid. Studentaid.ed.gov. Web. 2015

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In contrast with my main argument some claim that work can actually help student's. Nonis's and Hudson's study, "Academic Performance of College Students: Influence Time Spent Studying and Working," suggests "that the amount of hours worked had no direct influences on academic performance," instead suggesting that "motivation factors and study time significantly interact with a student's ability to influence their academic performance." In addition, studies show that students who work between the hours of 10-19 actually do better than both the other students who work and the students who do not. 44% of the students working between 10-19 hours register having a GPA between 3.0-3.4, (37% registered having a GPA of 3.5 or higher) the highest percentage out of all the students: including the students who work and the students who don't (Dundes).. Many believe this is the case because students have a better balance and it can increase their organization.

Dundes, L. and Marx, J. “Balancing Work and Academics in College: Why do

Students Working 10-19 Hours Per Week Excel?” Journal of College Student Retention, 8(1) (2006): 107-120

Nonis, Sarath A. Hudson, Gail I. “Academic Performance of College Students:

 Influence Time Spent Studying and Working.”  Journal of Education for Business. (2006), Vol.81 issue 3, 51-56. Print and Web.

 

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Primary Source Material

The primary source that I would like to use it actually myself. I have been working at that the Rutgers Dining Facility on Livingston Campus and I'm currently in my third semester there and will probably work there until I graduate. The job on its own is fine: a good environment, people who are willing to help you, decent wage, and allows/encourages interactions with fellow workers and even the people who come to eat. In addition to myself, their are several students who work at the dining hall. I have been able to talk to my roommate who used to work at the dining facilities and has experience attending school while simultaneously working and while not working. In addition, I 'm able to talk with the head student manager, who has to work more hours and oversee all of the students who work at the facility.  

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Does Working Part-time affect a college students academic, social and everyday college success?

My Case:

In short, yes I believe that working has affects on a students life in college. Students either work and attempt to work either for monetary reasons or for social ones (i.e to build relationships, network and/or gain experience). Based off of some of the research I found, having a job doesn't DIRECTLY influence a students academic success but may do so indirectly. Having a job means having less hours of free time that may have been used to student. It is then up to the student to manage their time and effectively organize themselves so that they can get their work done.

One article, "Exploring the Impact of Work Experience on Part-time Students's Academic Success in Malaysian Polytechnics," by Norhayati Ibrahim uses six factors to measure "perceived influence" of work related experiences: positive belief, negative belief, intrinsic motivation, learning orientation, deep learning approach, and surface learning approach. The article suggests that the success of a student could vary on the quality of their learning strategies, their classroom environment and the quality teaching from their teachers.

In addition, my personal experiences, through either myself and friends, further expand on the claim that working doesn't directly influence your academic performance and/or "social life." However, having a job requires much more planning and organization on your part. Or else it can be very easy to lose tract of things and time.

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Visuals:

Below is a representation of a table used found in one research article

Table 1:Demographic Characteristics of the Sample Compared With the Population, in Percentages

Demographic Characteristic                               Population                                   Sample

Gender                                                          
 Male                                                                  43.6                                            44.2
 Female                                                              56.3                                            55.8
Racial/Ethnic Group
 White                                                                77                                                85
 African American                                             12.1                                             12
 Other                                                                 11                                                2.5
Employment Status
 Do Not Work                                                    35.6                                            34
 Work Part-time                                                  30.6                                            28
 Work Full Time                                                 34.1                                            37

Note: Table consisted of undergraduate students enrolled in business courses at a medium-sized, association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business-accredited public university in the mid-south

Other Pictures used:

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My bibliography so far:

    Bibliography

Bousquet, Marc.  “Students Are Already Workers.”  How the                         University Works: Higher Education in the Low-Wage Nation.  New York: NYU Press, 2008.  125-156.  Print.

Ibrahim, Norhayati. “Exploring the impact of Work Experience on Part-time Student’s Academic Success in Malaysian Polytechnics.” Career and Technical Education Research (2012): v37 57-74. Web

Nonis, Sarath A. Hudson, Gail I. “Academic Performance of College Students: Influence Time Spent Studying and Working.” Journal of Education for Business. (2006), Vol.81 issue 3, 51-159. Web.

Orszag, Jonathan et al. “Learning and Earning: Working in College.” http://www.brockport.edu/career01/upromise.htm (2001). Web

Ripley, Amanda.  “How to Graduate from Starbucks.”  The Atlantic (May 2015): 60-72. Print and web.

Wang et al. “The effects of doing Part-Time jobs on College Student     Academic Performance in a Chinese Society.” Journal of Education and Work. (2010) 79-94. Web.

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James Meadows

Professor Goeller

Research in Disciplines: College!

October 19, 2015

Research Proposal

Working Title: Part-time during School Time

Topic:

        I am going to discuss and compare the relationship between college students who work and their academic success. There are a lot of students who have to work in school for multiple reasons (i.e. to pay for school, extra money, bills), and I’ll be discussing how much working affects students in both their academic success and social life.

Research Question:

Is there a strong (if any) correlation between students who work and their academic, social and/or everyday college success? How does the working environment affect the students who work in their respective jobs during their college experience?

Theoretical Frame:

        For this topic specifically, there will need to be a large amounts of data and additional research to back my thoughts. Finding out whether working part time has an additional large effect on current students, is very dependent on additional knowledge and statistical analysis to help the argument entirely. In the study, “Academic Performance of College Students: Influence of Time Spent Studying and Working,” by Sarath A. Nonis and Gail I, Hudson, research was developed to study the habits of how students used their time, including both studying and working. Students are becoming less and less prepared for when they go to college. Interestingly, once students get to college, they tend to spend fewer hours studying and more time working. Recognizing “nonability” variables like motivation and study time, the research exposed that the variables significantly interacted with the ability to interact academic performance. However, contrary to what most belief, the study showed that the amount of time studying or at work had no direct influence on academic performance. Yet, wouldn’t there be a greater effect on someone’s academic success if they worked significantly more hours than if they had worked significantly less? This topic is very interesting to me because my friends and I both work and this is a topic that we have discussed amongst ourselves. Talking to colleagues about their struggles in school makes me question; how much of our success (or failure) at college is dependent on our work and ourselves?

Research and Plan:

        As I mentioned in the Theoretical Frame, I will use the study, “Academic Performance of College Students: Influence time Spent Studying and Working,” to help with statistical knowledge and facts about the actual correlation between working and studying. In addition, “The effects of doing part-time jobs on college student academic performance and social life in a Chinese society” by Wong et al., is a study that helps explain the relationship between work and the academic success and social life of students in Macau, China. In the study, they treat employment as both a homogeneous and a heterogeneous experience then compare the relative importance of various characteristics of student employment, which is used to predict academic success and social life.

        I will also look at a couple of our required reading books. “Students are Already Workers,” and “How to Graduate from Starbucks,” by Marc Bousquet and Amanda Ripley respectively, provide insight from the students themselves about how much their job affects them and what kind of tolls and struggles each particular student faces. Direct insight on a person’s life, will give a good representation of how a person struggles with the handling both work and school. Also, both of these two articles talking about work related injuries and how that can affect a person’s everyday life and activities.

        I will also be looking at two additional resources to help further examine the correlation between working and the college life and success. One online article, “Learning and Earning: Working in College,” by Jonathan M. Orszag et al., provides additional insight on the effects of working in college. So how much working affects the students both now and in the future, looking at grades and dropout rates respectively. Also, the article looks compares students who work part-time and those who work full-time and compares the relationship between the two.

        Lastly, “Exploring the Impact of Work Experience on Part-Time Student’s Academic Success in Malaysian Polytechnics,” by Norhayati Ibrahim et al., uses six factors to measure “perceived influence” of work experiences: positive belief, negative belief, intrinsic motivation, learning orientation, deep learning approach, and surface learning approach. The findings in the article suggest that the success of the students could depend on the effectiveness of the classroom environment, teaching and learning strategies.

                       

                                Bibliography

Bousquet, Marc.  “Students Are Already Workers.”  How the                         University Works: Higher Education in the Low-Wage Nation.  New York: NYU Press, 2008.  125-156.  Print.

Ibrahim, Norhayati. “Exploring the impact of Work Experience on Part-time Student’s Academic Success in Malaysian Polytechnics.” Career and Technical Education Research (2012): v37 57-74. Web

Nonis, Sarath A. Hudson, Gail I. “Academic Performance of College Students: Influence Time Spent Studying and Working.” Journal of Education for Business. (2006), Vol.81 issue 3, 51-159. Web.

Orszag, Jonathan et al. “Learning and Earning: Working in College.” http://www.brockport.edu/career01/upromise.htm (2001). Web

Ripley, Amanda.  “How to Graduate from Starbucks.”  The Atlantic (May 2015): 60-72. Print and web.

Wang et al. “The effects of doing Part-Time jobs on College Student     Academic Performance in a Chinese Society.” Journal of Education and Work. (2010) 79-94. Web.

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A couple class reading that we used are part of the resources that I'm using for my paper. "Students are Already Workers" and "How to Graduate from Starbucks," by Marc Bousquet and Amanda Ripley respectively are pieces that involve college students who also have part-time jobs. In the cases of both articles, we have students and people that privatize themselves from opportunities that the job provides for them. For example, in "How to Graduate from Starbucks" there is a woman who is scared to take the opportunity that Starbucks is providing for her and her co-coworkers (Starbucks is willing to help pay for college for their employees) because she was scared of something that might come back to bite her if she decided to opt for it. She privatized herself from an opportunity that would have benefited her; it's something that we expect to see a college do to student, not the other way around (or a variation  of that in this case).

Research Blog 2

1.) Based on the information that I have found, I am leaning toward the side that part-time jobs do not directly influence the success a student may achieve in college. Although there are varying variables, having a part-time job alone won't make you do any work in school. Although this wasn't in the last blog, my original plan was to write about Student Athletes. However, this topic is much more relatable to me and my personal life and I think is suites me better.

2.) The best terms were "part-time jobs" and "college students" and "academic success" all together. Sometimes just searching "part-time jobs" and "college students" can give you more generic articles, but adding "academic success" narrows it down much further.

3.) A couple scholar articles I found actually directly address my topic. One article "The effects of doing part-time jobs on college student academic performance in a chinese society," talks about students attending a university in China and if their part-time job affects their academic performance.

4.) The biggest idea seems to be that students academic success in college can or cannot be affect by also working part-time in addition to their academic activities.

5.) The best resources I found were via Rutgers Library. However, additional articles that i used came from readings in class: "Students are Already workers" by Marc Bousquet.  (https://content.sakai.rutgers.edu/access/content/group/6486762d-c69b-457e-b195-c499c9aec8d1/Course%20Readings/bousquet-student-workers.pdf)

6.) There are apparently two sides of the debate: either part-time jobs affect student academic success or it doesn't. However, there seems to be more data that suggest that jobs don't affect a students success rate than any data that suggests that there does.

Research Blog 1

I am going to research the relationship between part-time jobs among college students and their academic and social success in college. This topic interests me because my friends and I have part-time jobs, and we often discuss about the struggles our jobs place on us. I have had plenty of conversations with co-workers that have complained because they haven't been able to complete their work because of the conflict and lack of time they have because of work. I'm interested to see how much does the work place affect students (if any) or if students must take all the blame for potential faults in school.

Literature Review 1

Literature Review 1: "Academic Performance of College Students: Influence of Time Spent Studying and Working" - scholarly article

2. Nonis, Sarath A. Hudson, Gail I. “Academic Performance of College Students: Influence Time Spent Studying and Working.” Journal of Education for Business. (2006), Vol.81 issue 3, 51-159. Web.

This article explains an experiment that describes the relationship between college students who work and how they spend their time studying and working. More students are coming into college unprepared and a study shown in this article that more students are spending more time studying than working. Analyzing the correlation between students working hours and their study hours, may give us an indication of how well they are doing in school, which in turn, influences their success in college. Sarath Nonis and Gail Hudon used lots of statistical analysis and terms to help explain their experiment (for people who may be unfamiliar with the terms. "To determine the bivariate relationships that the plausible predictor (independent) variables had with the academic success (dependent) variables, we calculated Pearson's product moment correlation coefficients" (154). Here the author uses statistic terms to describe what we were studying, to help us (the reader) understand the graph and table they later showed us. The article provides numerous amounts of data and information that will be great to use for my research paper in the future.