Department of Education

Region III
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“Effects of a working student”

A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Grade 11

in the Practical Research 1.

By the Group 1 namely:

John M ichael M. Lopez

Nico P. Baltazar
Decena M. Bautista
Airaline R. Flores
Bea C. Buan
Ruth B. Barte
Kim Ashley P. Navarro
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CHAPTER I

I. INTRODUCTION

Work life balance, the struggle just to keep a healthy life for students that has financial

problems, decided to possible to work full time while studying full time. Parents work hard just

to give the best for their children. But maybe sometimes isn't enough to support the finances of

them. That's why others decided to work even though they are not at their legal age just to

support their finances at school.

But of course the government offers programs that give solutions for the students.

Working students are the one who do everything just to find way to make things work. The jobs

that they specially working on are crew at fast food chains, saleslady or salesman, cell phone

accessories shop and many more. Lots of ways just to improve every individual life.

But, the academic performance of the students has gained significant to the attention in

past research. Performance of students is affected by psychological, economic, social, personal,

and environmental factors. Though this factors strongly influence the performance of the

students, but these factors differ from country to country and person to person. Most of the

previous studies on academic performance of students focused on such issues like teacher,

education, class, environment, gender, difference, teaching style, family educational background

and socioeconomic factor. Past studies concentrates, on various factors such class plans, class

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size, reading material, environment of the class, the innovation utilized as a part of the class and

exams framework, extracurricular exercises, family and work exercises. Doing it possibly to

keep studying and balance their work.

II. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Being Working Student is very hard because they need to give their 100% best of attention

when they're in school and put their full strength at work. It is much as different especially on

their schedule. Their duties as a worker must fulfil and also their performance in school.

A Working Student must responsible enough to handle their life being a student and a

worker. They are the one who are experienced enough when it comes in managing times at work

and school and know how important the commitment is.

Researchers have demonstrated that the performance of the students depended upon several

factors like, learning facilities, age and gender differences. The most significant with the positive

outcome on the performance of the students is competence of the students in English. Direction

is a component through which a student knows how to progress his study approach and study

schedule and is directly corresponding to academic accomplishments. The students who are

appropriately guided by their guardians have done well in the exams. The direction from the

educator also influences performance of the students. The academic performance of the students

also rely on a various socioeconomic variables like students participation in the class, family pay,

and teacher student ratio, presence of qualified teachers in school and gender of the student.

Several studies have also been done on the impact of peer influence on student performance.

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III. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The abbreviation is to gather information that regards to the effects of the students who are

working while studying. Specifically, the study aims to answer the following questions:

1. What the working student must do so that his/her academic performance will not affect?

2. What is the main purpose of the student why he/she is working?

3. How can a working student balance his/her study and perfomance at work?

IV. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This terms that were concisely defined in the study that could help the reader to

understand and comprehend it more.This specific words are:

Working Student- this is a kind of students who's working while studying to support their

finances at school.

Parent- the student's father or mother, that brings forth offspring, their role is to take care to

their children.

Teacher- one that teaches and especially one whose occupation is to instruct and to guide the

students.

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Job- a regular remunerative position or got a part time that is the source of money.

School- it is a place where students inquired to gain knowledge.

V. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

This conceptual framework discusses the study where in the Input is consisting of:

position,performance and comprehension. On the other side the process used through survey and

questionnaires that result to the topic effects of a working student

INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT

 Position  Survey  Effect of a working

 Performance  Interview student

 Comprehension  Questionnaires

VI. HYPOTHESIS

It was hypothesized that learning facilities, communication skills and proper guidance

from parents have no significant impact on student academic performance at school. It’s because

student specially senior high school student already has their own decision when it comes in

studying. And plus the student who decided to work even if they are not their legal age.

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VII. SCOPE

The purpose of these study seeks to determine the different effects of working while

studying. It will conduct the perception of the students, teachers and specially the working

student of AMACC in school year 2018-2019. Even they are having hard times, still they keep

pursuing their dreams to have a better life in the future.

VIII. DELIMITATION

This study aims to give the readers more information regarding to the positive and negative

effects of a working student. And it will be discuss the state of the working student that will be

explain that is not easy at all. It will also talks about the result that might happen when a

working student has lack of effort on a particular part. And the researchers will illustrate also

what are the things that the people around the working student might help to the situation of

it.

IX. DEFINITION OF TERMS

This terms that could help a lot the readers to understand more the study. And gain more

ideas about the study. This unfamiliar terms are:

Hindered- to make something such as a task or action slow or difficult.

Concisely- using few words not including extra or unnecessary information.

Competence- the quality or state of being competent (ability to do something).

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Peer- a person who belongs to the same age group or social group as someone else.

Significant- large enough to be noticed or have an effect.

Commitment- a promise to do or give something.

Finance- matter relating to money and how it is spent or saved.

Differ- to have opinions that don't agree.

Socioeconomic- relating to, or involving a combination of social and economic factors.

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CHAPTER II

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

The researchers cited books and articles which are relevant to the topic effects of a

working student. It is composed and provides explanations and logical connections between the

previous research and the present research work. That gives more evidences that makes the

research more informational for the readers.

FOREIGN LITERATURE

This literature involves the research based information on educational approaches

and programs associated with improving the academic performance of Native American

students. As stressed by Gilani (2012) in the works of Garcia and Pearason, reading strategies are

deliberate actions that learns select to establish and improve their reading comprehension. He

stressed that these strategies are mental processes involved in the reading. Usually these

techniques are selected consciously to facilitate reading comprehension.

In addition, Horowitz (2012), the reader must also be intentional and thoughtful

while reading, monitoring the words and their meaning as reading progresses. And the reader

must apply comprehension strategies as ways to be sure that what is being read matches their

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expectations and builds on their growing body of knowledge that is being stored for immediate

or future reference.

FOREIGN STUDY

A related study conducted by Marsh and Kleitman (2005) showed that working during high

school had negative effects on occupational and, in particular, educational aspirations and

subsequent employment. This negative impact is not present among continuing students who

worked during high school to save money for college and in fact had mostly favorable effects.

Findings from the study offered additional clues about the nature of the impact of working on

subsequent unemployment. For example, the positive effect of working on subsequent

unemployment was not mediated by other high school outcomes. Hence, high school

accomplishments were unrelated to this effect. But since the study considered only students who

graduated from high school, our results did not include the negative effects of part-time

employment on high school graduation and implications for long-term employment among high

school dropouts.

LOCAL LITERATURE

De Guzman, De Castro (2011) graduates need to develop personal skills, qualities and

experiences that enable to them to complete in the labor market. De Cruz (2014) many highly

educated Filipino today, married or unmarried, gave indicate their desire to be part of national

effort to build the nation and to contribute to the national welfare. Some have shown their need
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and capability to make good or even excel in some field of endeavor, as well as fulfil their

responsibilities.

According to Masikip (2012) that the second year high school students obtained good

performance in the post less before and after exposure to remediation activities. Alcovendas and

Espares (2013) discusses that AB English honor graduates are gainfully employed having

sufficient annual income, have a tendency of staying long in the company. The statement of

Alcovendas and Espares are relevant because in the present study conducted by the researchers.

The results shows that academic performances in school really affect the employment status of

the graduates.

The ACT Foundation (2014) defines working learners as individuals who are both

working for pay and informal learning programs that lead to a recognized credential. Part time

workers in this study were able to deal with the effects of working while in school (Triventi,

2014). Some students take fewer credits due to work commitments. Part time and full time

students tend to spend less time studying (Darolia, 2014).Specifically 28% of high school

students, 72 % of undergraduate and 82% of graduate students work at least part time while

going to school (U.S Census Bureau, 2013). The negative study points out the negative effects of

working to be lack of time for school-based activities and leisure activities, which can help with

overall health (Darolia, 2014)

Money is the main key in study which students acquire tremendous amount of

debt pay off. Many students work while attending school which in return has an effect. From

working and attending school, stress become the main setback in which affects their academic
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performance. A recent article has shown that there is a psychological and physical to that takes

upon students who try to juggle both. It showed that stress was a main cause for these students

which caused emotional and physical exhaustion. Our survey tries to study how students deal

with stress when they work or not work while attending school. Stress plays the main role in all

factors for these students attending a university ("Optimism and Risk for Job Burnout", 2015).

LOCAL STUDY

According to Desousa (2008), Web based application have four core benefits. These are

the following: 1) Compatibility. Web based application are far more compatible across platforms

than traditional installed software like web browsers. 2)Efficiency. Everyone hates to deal with

piles of paper unless they do not have any other alternatives. The benifit of web based solution

makes service and information available from any web-facilitated personal Computer (PC).

3)Security of live data. Normally in more complex system data is moved about separate systems

and data sources. In web -based systems, these systems, these systems and processes can often be

merge by reducing the need to move the data around. Web based application also provide an

additional security by removing the need for the user to have access to the data and back end

servers.4) Cost Effective. Web based application can considerably lower the costs because of

reduced support and maintenance, lower requirements on the end user system and simplified

plans. According to Evangelista (2008) the university’s Student information System (SIS) of

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Nueva Vizcaya State University is a secure, web accessible interactive computer system that

allows user access to grade reports, transcripts, schedule of classes, and remaining balance for

the semester and register for classes online. Through the system, students would be assigned a

unique identification number. All data to and from the university would use that unique

identifier. The use of individual student records would: 1) Increase the admissions capacity to

follow a student’s progress over time; 2) provide better quality data to drive more enlightened

policy decisions resulting in enhanced educational opportunities for all students; 3)reduce data

collection burden through a web enabled SIS; and 4) as a tool of parents in monitoring the

academic performance of their children.

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CHAPTER 3

Research Methodology

In this chapter it will discuss the Research designs, method, instrument, analysation of the

questionnaire, and how does the interview conducted.

Research Design

The Researcher used interview to collect information about the topic effects of a working

student. The interview research design is the process of collecting information by means of the

interviewer or researcher will ask certain that will be answered by the interviewee or

respondents.

Research Instrument

The instrument that the researchers used is questionnaire. It is where the researcher wrote

series of questions in a paper that the respondents will answer. The questionnaire was composed

of 5 questions to be answer by 15 working students.

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Respondents

The respondents in this study are 15 students of AMACC that are working students. The

interview conducted in all strands in AMACC (ABM, STEM, TVL, HUMMS). Purpose is to

gather the perception of the students about the topic effects of a working students.

Data Gathering

The process of gathering the opinions, thoughts and perception of the working students

is by preparing a questionnaire and conduct an interview.

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CHAPTER IV

This chapter is the discussion of the answers of the 15 respondents in AMACC. And the

analyzation of the researchers about the answer of the respondents.

Question 1. How does working while studying affects the academic performance of the

students? Based on the answers that the researchers gathered from the respondents they said that

because of the job that they applied their grades get lower and they sight instances like they’re

always late at class, they misses some activities, they didn't pass some requirements at school

and many more. That results to lower grades. As what the researchers analyze or observed all of

them said the negative effects of working while studying that it affects that must their

performance in school.

Question 2. What are the reason why a student needs to work while studying? Based on the

information that the researchers gathered from the respondents, they said that because of

financial problem that push them to work to have an extra income and to help their family for

some small finances. All of them said that financial problem is the main purpose if their job.

Their goal is to support their family in finances at school.

Question 3. What are the things that a working student must do to maintain his/her performance

at school and at work? Some of the respondents said that they must focus on what are the things

that must be done in school and at work, others said time management is the key to balance out

their performance both on that. As what the researchers observed the students must have time

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management on his/herself because they must balance those essential things. And also put more

effort on the requirements on the things that must be submit on class.

Question 4. What are the specific jobs that a working student usually applying? Most of the

answers of the respondents are crews on fast food chains like Mcdo, Jollibee, Mang Inasal and

many more. And also sales lady in different shops like on phones accessories. For the source of

income for their family. Most on the jobs that they are applying are common to us. Maybe those

jobs didn't need more the knowledge, and the learnings of the student because most of those jobs

needed the skills and endurance of the student worker. Patience, perseverance and hard work

must be the main asset of the working student.

Question 5. What are the things that the working student must focus more? As what the

respondents said, they must still focus more on the requirements at school and work. And still

focus more on their studies because work is just temporary and the main reason why they’re

working is that to support their studies. And they said even though they already earn money they

must still put on their mind that study must be focus first. As what the researchers observed the

student must still focused on their studies because as they grow older that will be their main asset

to succeed in their life. Because the money that they are earning right now will be tripled

someday after they finished they study. And in that thing they will be successful and all of their

sacrifices right now will paid off in the near future.

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Chapter V

Introduction

Summarizes the conclusions and recommendations emanating from this study. It begins

by looking at a summary of the initial aims and objectives, its rationale, and a synopsis of the

literature findings. It then includes a brief discussion presented according to each of the main

research questions followed by the outcomes of this study. The lessons learned, the strengths, the

weaknesses and the special contributions of this study are covered in this section. It concludes

with a list of recommendations.

Summary

In chapter 1 the researcher explained the introduction where in it's all about the effects of

working while studying to students. It discussed the disadvantages as a student worker. It also

involved the things that must the working student focus more so that he/she can maintain his/her

performances on both side. And this focuses on the main conflict of the study and it will be

answer on the part of chapter 4. In chapter 2 discussed the review of related literature. That

strengthen the study because of the past researchers. It also talks about the previous study on it

that helps the study to add more knowledge. In chapter 3 discussed the Research methods,

instrument, design and how the interview was conducted in AMACC. And this involves the

respondents and how does researchers gathered information. In chapter 4 the researchers

summarizes all the answers of the respondents. And also they analyze each answer in a certain

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question. In chapter 5 the researchers summarizes all the chapters in the study. And tally all the

chapters, this helps to paraphrase all the parts of the study.

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Details:

Name: John Michael M. Lopez Sex: Male Age: 16 Birth Date: April 28, 2002

Birth Place: San Vicente Religion: Royal Catholic Grade Level: Senior High School(Grade11)

Address: 789 Pasinibil St. San Vicente, Sto. Tomas, Pampanga

Personal Details:

Name: Nico P. Baltazar Sex: Male Age: 17 Birth Date: December 20, 2001

Birth Place: San Nicolas (CSFP) Religion: Royal Catholic

Grade Level: Senior High School(Grade11) Address: 596 San Nicolas Annex 1 (CSFP)

Personal Details:

Name: Airaline R. Flores Sex: Female Age: 17 Birth Date: August 1, 2001

Birth Place: Moras DelaPaz Sto. Tomas Pampanga Religion: Royal Catholic Grade Level:

Senior High School (Grade11) Address: #210 R.P.Palad St. Moras DelaPaz Sto. Tomas

Pampanga

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Personal Details:

Name: Decena M. Bautista Sex: Female Age: 16 Birth Date: December 06, 2002

Birth Place: San Nicolas (CSFP) Religion: Royal Catholic

Grade Level: Senior High School (Grade11) Address: #224 Ilang Ilang St. San Nicolas (CSFP)

Personal Details:

Name: Bea C. Buan Sex: Female Age: 17 Birth Date: December 3 2001 Birth Place: JBL

Religion: Royal Catholic Grade Level: Senior High School(Grade11) Address: #25 Nogoy San

Matias Sto. Tomas Pampanga

Findings

Almost of the working student didn't have that high grades, because of their situation in life. It

is seems that as a working student they must focus more on the important things and always have

time management in everything. It is important t them to maintain their performance in both

sides because it was already their responsibilities that must be done.

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Conclusions

It showed that the working student has a lot of disadvantages than to normal students. That's

why it's normal to them to have not that high grades but still it is up to the working student if

he/she will strive more so that he/she could maintain his/her grades. The researchers called them

as amazing students because of their ability to handle those responsibilities at their young age.

Recommendations

This may recommend other location to gather information to different schools that may help a

lot to give more evidences and proofs about the topic.

References

Gilani(2012)https://www.academia.edu/4018283/CHAPTER_2_REVIEW_OF_RELATED_LIT

ERATURE_AND_STUDIES

Richard(2004)

https://www.academia.edu/8222610/CHAPTER_2_REVIEW_OF_RELATED_LITERATURE_

AND_STUDIES

De Guzman, De Castro (2011)

https://www.academia.edu/8222610/CHAPTER_2_REVIEW_OF_RELATED_LITERATURE_

AND_STUDIES

Appendix

Complete final chapter I thought you might find it helpful (and inspiring).. It illustrates how the

Conclusions chapter can provide a concise and effective ending to a qualitative study. Rather

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than a mere recapitulation of earlier themes, they take them up and develop them still more. As

such, they seem designed to provide listeners with some of the most stimulating material in the

composition. So your final chapter is, indeed, necessary. But it should function to stimulate your

readers by demonstrating how your research has stimulated you.

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