THE ADVANTAGES OF A WORKING STUDENT TO THEIR ACADEMIC

PERFORMANCE DURING THE PANDEMIC

A Research Presented to the Faculty of

Palompon National High School

Senior High School

Palompon, Leyte

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the

Subject Practical Research II

By:

Whelle Jhane D. Formentera 12- Samoa

INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

A working student is a person who has work and at the same time go to

school as a student. Being a working student needs a lot of determination not

only to his work but also in their studies. Being a working student is very tough

they are required to give their 100 percent of attention when they are in school

and give 100 percent of their strength when they work. Being a working student

is much different especially on the schedule. Their obligations as a working

student are difficult while they are still in school. They have different time for

working and give a time for studying. A working student is accountable enough

to handle their life being a student. They will know how hard to handle a job

while they need to go to school after their work. They will know how significant

the assurance and the time when they become a working student.

A working student sometimes works in their school and give them

financial aid if their academic or marks is in the middle and they don’t let their

school grades fall. Some student that they have no capability to pay their tuition

to apply in the school as a working student.

A study led by Endsleigh (2015), showed that eight out of ten (77%)

understudies are now working part-time to help them in their financial needs in
school. Being a working student is stressful most likely in balancing your social

life, time for family, school, and work. Figuring out how to manage the pressure

that pursues with being a working undergrad, and ensuring you have no less

than one night off a week, can bring down your stress levels ten times (Mitchell,

2016).

In fact, the choice to engage in some kind of working activity during

university -besides forced decisions due to financial constraints- is generally

motivated by the willingness to gain work experience and related skills that

might improve post-graduation job opportunities (Humburg and van der Velden,

2015).

Human Capital Theories predict a positive relationship between working

while studying and future labor market outcomes. This is because employment

increases students' general and specific human capital, through the acquisition of

relevant work experience and skills that are positively valued by the employers

(Becker, 1964).

According to The Working Student (2016), to set down the job options of

Filipino working students namely online jobs, paid corporate internship, fast-food

crew, and school jobs.

According to CHED (2010), only half of the employed students can finish

college, as many cannot concentrate on their studies, while others have poor

health, and other give up because of financial problem. Peprah, Mattu &
Yamoah, Compensantion And Social ...77The study that is conducted in

Philippines by Nicola-Blance and Menes on organizational commitment and

job satisfaction of employee in a retail establishment, study concluded

that continuance commitment gives support to employees stay longer in

the organization due to employee’s investment in the organization such as

time and hard work in the economic world and loss of social touch if

employees leave the organization (Newstrom, 2011).

A study has examined that the Educational institutions take note

the work-life balance and related among their staff, especially women

should be taken in the approach to design and implement the policies as a

teaching staff and manage their work-life balance (Santhana,2013). The other

skills are required, such as organization, processing, understanding

generalization, transferring, and transformation (Feuerstein & Falik 2010).

These question will help to seek the answer of the study.

1.What are the advantages of a working student?

2.How good does a working student affect your financial budget?

3.How does working student save you money specially during pandemic?

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This study will be undertaken to find out The Advantages of Working Students

During Pandemic to their Academic Performance.

Benefiting the study are the various sectors as follows:

Students

Those students specially who are in shortage of finances for studying will be

given support. It can also make other hopeless students to have a chance to

work and study at the same time. To also inform students that despite of the

pandemic you can still work and study.

Family
To help the parents lessen their expenses. For them them to save money for

other important necessities.

SCOPE AND DELIMITATION

The aim of this study is to determine the advantages of being a working student

to their academic performance during the pandemic. The researcher limits this

study that can be only used for research purposes only, and this study can give

information for the future researchers. It simply aims to gather information about

the researcher’s study and knowing the advantages of a working student during

the pandemic.
 Chapter 2

Conceptual Literature

University students have many challenges to overcome in order to attain their

optimal academic performance. It takes a lot more than just studying to

successfully complete an academic programme. A number of issues such as time

management, financial problems, sleep deprivation, social activities, and for

some students taking care of their families, can all pose their threat to a

student’s academic performance. In Ghana, like most developing countries,

funding is deemed to be a great challenge in acquiring a tertiary education. The

Students' Loan Scheme was therefore established in January 1988 under PNDC

Law 276. The Students' Loan Scheme is a financial arrangement under which

Ghanaian Students enrolled and pursuing approved courses in tertiary

institutions in Ghana are granted loans to assist with the financing of their

education. (Ansong, & Gyensare, 2012)

A growing number of students are working while in college and to a

greater extent. Using nationally representative data from the 1997 National

Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I analyze the effect of working on grades and

credit completion for undergraduate students in the United States. Strategies to

include student-level fixed effects to control for permanent, unobserved

characteristics that may affect both work and study intensity, and system GMM

models to account for potentially endogenous relationships between working and

academic performance that vary over time. I examine the consequences of

working for heterogeneous subgroups, with a particular focus on differences

between full-time and part-time students. I find no evidence that students’

grades are harmed by marginal work hours, but that full-time students complete

fewer credits per term when increasing work. (Darolia, 2014)

This paper analyses the impact of employment status on dropout rates

using survival analysis. It finds that employment status does have an impact on

dropout rates; students who work full time alongside studying full time are less

likely to complete their programme than students working short part-time or not

working at all. However, it seems as if there is a threshold to how much students

can work, as working more than 20 h a week (long part-time work) increase the

risk of dropout as much as full-time work. Integrating employment status into

the analysis does not change the effect of variables known to have an influence

on dropout, such as grades, gender and social background, but it contributes to

further explain who are at risk of dropout. This implies that models for dropout

and retention must also take such external factors into account, not just consider

what happens at university, as in model of student departure. (Hovdhaugen,

2015)
 Researchers have always been interested in studying the effect of multiple

roles and interrole conflict. Much has been written on role conflict in the

work/family literature (Greenhaus and Powell, 2006; Barnett and Hyde, 2001;

Greenhaus and Parasuraman,

1986). However, few studies have focused on the student/work relationship and

interrole conflict. Buda and Lenaghan (2005) conducted a study that directly

investigated this relationship. The findings in their study indicated that the

work/student relationship produced strain or stress that negatively affected well-

being. These findings corresponded to that of Rothbard (2001) where he

examined the relationship between work and family. In addition, the findings

also suggested that students may find work as both instrumental and emotional

in achieving their goal of acquiring a college education. Incidentally, these

findings also paralleled the study of Lucas and Lamont (1998) where they

investigated the effects of combining work and study in university students. They

concluded that economic reasons drive a student to work and this is often

necessary but working is also an emotional experience that aids in the social

development of the students. (Lenaghan & Sengupta, 2007).

Advantage of Working Academic Performance

INDEPENDENT VARIABLE DEPENDENT VARIABLE

Educational
Attainment

Moderating Variable
Definition of Terms

Working student - a person who has work on a mistress’ house and at the

same time go to school as a student.

Study - the devotion of time and attention to acquiring knowledge on an

academic subject, especially by means of books.

School Subject- a branch of knowledge studied or taught in a school, college,

or university.

Academic - relating to education and scholarship.

Research Hypothesis

There is a significant difference between the advantages of a working students

to their academic performance during the pandemic.