Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Research Blog 5

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.

Research Blog 4


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.

Research Blog 3

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

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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.