Philippine E-Journals

Experience and perception of working students: Study, work and academic performance

Reyna Jean P Pagon | Charyl Anne L Ponce

 

Abstract:

This article discusses the findings of our study conducted with working students in a private university in southern Philippine. Specifically, our study focused on the experience of these working students and how they articulate this experience concerning their academic performance. The common factors essential to academic performance and coping strategies for the working students were examined as well as the strategies which came their way. The study involved the participation of a group composed of non-working students. The working students, similar to regular students, are concerned with a host of factors which they perceived to affect academic performance, particularly absence of family support to their study, weak study habit, inflated study load, teacher factor, the availability of learning materials, social media exposure, and relationship with peers. Work factors, specifically work load and work schedule are dominant determinants of academic performance. Non-working students consider parental support a determinant to academic achievement while working students rely on the individual self. Essential to the latter’s academic achievement are efficiency of time management, effective motivation which mostly is self-initiated, and improved focus.