Factors Affecting Academic Performance of a Working Students

Student jobs have become a sort of trend among students around the world, who want to work while they are studying. In short, the term that suits this trend is ‘Earn and Learn’ policy. Other reason why student jobs are popular among students is they help to cope up with the constant increase in tuition fees, and a way to afford further educations. The problem has been developed with the question as to how the corresponding workloads and required working hours of working students affect their academic performance at University of Caloocan- Camarin Campus. As a researcher, the main purpose of the study is to know the factors that affect the academic performance of working students.

In addition, this paper aims to provide encouragement and motivation to all students especially those who are financially distressed to pursue and finish a college degree in order to be competitive in the future and be able to realize their goals and aspirations. It may also provide learning experiences and information to other students who are not working. In order to accomplish our objectives, we adopted several methodologies in obtaining data and information such as conducting surveys by providing questionnaires to our subjects, getting information in the internet and conducting interviews personally and honestly with our target subjects to get assurance that our data, information and values gathered were correct and accurate.

Statement of the Problem
1. What are reasons why students at University of Caloocan City are oblige to work while studying? 2. Are there any advantages or disadvantages engaging in work while in school? 3. What are the issues affecting the academic performance of college working students? and 4. How does it affect the working student’s academic performance? Hypothesis of the Study