...Effects of Employment on Student Academic Success Compiled December 2006 BYU Employment Services The average yearly costs of education continue to increase around the country. According to the College Board’s “Trends in College Pricing”, the 20062007 average total costs (including tuition, fees, room and board, books and supplies, transportation, and other expenses) are $16,357 for fouryear public colleges and universities; and $33,301 for fouryear private colleges and universities. These costs represent nearly a 6 percent tuition increase from 20052006. Inflation during that same period was approximately 4 percent. As anxiety rises concerning the escalating costs of schooling, students are left with the decision of how to fund their education. Some take out loans, or qualify for grants or scholarships. Others, however, are left to pay their own way by means of fulltime or parttime employment. Approximately 80 percent of all college students are employed while completing their undergraduate education (Riggert). Many studies have been conducted to determine the effects of fulltime and parttime employment on the academic success of college students. The purpose of this paper is to summarize some of the general findings and implications of these studies, and to provide suggestions regarding how university studentemployment offices may utilize these data. Effects on GPA A major factor in determining the positive or negative effects of employment on the ...
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...American society and Economy – BMAN 20610 Has Affirmative Action had any positive results? Should the policy be abandoned? ‘Affirmative Action has had an indelible imprint on the university environment’ [1] With primary focus on the impact that affirmative action (AA) has had to African Americans in regard to College admission, this essay will seek to ascertain to what extent the policy has lead to positive results. While in addition, evaluating whether this policy is both a legitimate and a necessary feature within Universities in contemporary America, or should be abandoned. Following President Johnson signing into law, executive order 11246 in 1965, the concept of affirmative action was formed and subsequently integrated within the college admission process in the United States. The primary intention of the policy was to ‘redress the disadvantages associated with overt historical discrimination’. [2] While furthermore, seeking to ensure that institutions, such as Universities, were more ‘representative of the populations they serve’. [3] Since the implementation of the policy, throughout American University Campuses and the corridors of power in Washington, both debate and discourse has taken place in regard to the fairness and necessity of the practice of Affirmative Action within the College Admission process. As asserted by Garcia, those in favour of Affirmative action programs within Colleges viewed that the implementation of the policy was evidently ‘a catalyst...
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...There are many positive effects of inclusions where both the students with special needs along with the other students in the classroom both benefit. Research has shown positive effects for children with disabilities in areas such as reading individualized education program (IEP) goal, improving communication and social skills, increasing positive peer interactions, many educational outcomes, and post school adjustments. Positive effects on children without disabilities include the development of positive attitudes and perceptions of persons with disabilities and the enhancement of social status with nondisabled peers. Several studies have been done on the effects of inclusion of children with disabilities in general education classrooms. A study on inclusion compared integrated and segregated (special education only) preschool students. The study determined that children in the integrated sites progressed in social skills development while the segregated children actually regressed. Another study shows the effect on inclusion in grades 2 to 5. The study determined that students with specific learning disabilities made some academic and affective gains at a pace comparable to that of normal achieving students. Specific learning disabilities students also showed an improvement in self-esteem and in some cases improved motivation. Now a day’s many Filipino’s had a lessen IQ. They cannot understand well in a short day, and in a short year of education so, I think K+12 programs...
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...Department of Economics College of Business & Economics United Arab Emirates University P.O. Box 17555 Al-Ain, UAE Tel.: 971 3 7133228 Fax: 971 3 7624384 E-mail: nasri.harb@uaeu.ac.ae Ahmed El-Shaarawi* Department of Economics College of Business & Economics United Arab Emirates University P.O. Box 17555 Al-Ain, UAE Tel.: 971 3 7133261 Fax: 971 3 7624384 E-mail: ashaarawi@uaeu.ac.ae 16 July 2006 1 Corresponding author * The authors would like to express their sincere appreciation to the Research Affairs at the United Arab Emirates University for the financial support for this project under fund grant # 01-02-4-11/04. The authors would also like to express their gratitude to all faculty members at the College of Business and Economics at the United Arab Emirates University and to the following students for helping with data collection and entry: Mohammad Abou Haliga, Mahmoud Adde, Jimaleh Ahmed, Duaa Shaikh Ali, Dalia Al-Iriani, Hiba Al-Khadra, Nina Greeshkeeva, Lamis Hafez, Baina Madvenova, Dhuha Musleh, Tahseen Rajoub, and Khabab Sissanga. Factors Affecting Students' Performance Determinants of students' performance have been the subject of ongoing debate among educators, academics, and policy makers. There have been many studies that sought to examine this issue and their findings point out to hard work, previous schooling, parents’ education, family income and self motivation as factors that have a significant effect on the students GPA...
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...Harb1* Department of Economics College of Business & Economics United Arab Emirates University P.O. Box 17555 Al-Ain, UAE Tel.: 971 3 7133228 Fax: 971 3 7624384 E-mail: nasri.harb@uaeu.ac.ae Ahmed El-Shaarawi* Department of Economics College of Business & Economics United Arab Emirates University P.O. Box 17555 Al-Ain, UAE Tel.: 971 3 7133261 Fax: 971 3 7624384 E-mail: ashaarawi@uaeu.ac.ae 16 July 2006 1 Corresponding author * The authors would like to express their sincere appreciation to the Research Affairs at the United Arab Emirates University for the financial support for this project under fund grant # 01-02-4-11/04. The authors would also like to express their gratitude to all faculty members at the College of Business and Economics at the United Arab Emirates University and to the following students for helping with data collection and entry: Mohammad Abou Haliga, Mahmoud Adde, Jimaleh Ahmed, Duaa Shaikh Ali, Dalia Al-Iriani, Hiba Al-Khadra, Nina Greeshkeeva, Lamis Hafez, Baina Madvenova, Dhuha Musleh, Tahseen Rajoub, and Khabab Sissanga. Factors Affecting Students' Performance Determinants of students' performance have been the subject of ongoing debate among educators, academics, and policy makers. There have been many studies that sought to examine this issue and their findings point out to hard work, previous schooling, parents’ education, family income and self motivation as factors that have a significant effect on the students GPA. Most of those...
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...This essay explores the notion that many undergraduate students engaged in paid employment. Furthermore, the essay discusses the impact of this on their experience at university and on their performance. Typically, a lot of college students have part-time job while studying at university. This situation may have positive or negative effects on their scholastic performance. As Applegate and Daly (2006) stated that it is vital to realize that negative results might be happened when higher educational students undertaking paid work. Besides, there is potential advantage for scholars to ameliorate their organisational skills. Understandably, paid employment might have either advantage or disadvantage for undergraduate students. This essay will argue that in general paid work have negative influence on student’s academic performance although it is depending on the age and how many hours they work. Further, it is argue that students are sacrificing leisure time because of having part-time job. The essay also indicates that many factors may effect on student’s performance at university and their experience. There are more and more university students undertaking paid work. The condition might have advantage or disadvantage rely on their age and working hours. According to Mcinnis, James and Hartley (as cited in Applegate and Daly 2006) “students who are first-year in seven Australian universities, found that the percentage of full-time students in paid-employment had grown from 42 percent...
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...The Effect of Videogames on Student Achievement BY JONATHAN CRATON Introduction In the past few decades, interactive electronic media has grown from virtual non-existence to one of the primary means of entertainment for college students. In more recent years, the Internet has completely changed the landscape of electronic media from something individual and static into something with the potential to be interactive and social. This article examines the effects of increased student usage of traditional video games as well as online games. The demographics of the typical game player will be examined along with effects on the individual development and sociological perceptions. This article will also look at the potential education utility of video games and the effect of games on student engagement and social development. The College Gamer Recent data from UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute provides useful information about video game usage on college campuses. The data show that most college students have played video games, many play them regularly, and a small percentage use them as a primary means of entertainment and leisure. In the 2009 Freshman Survey, around 1% of respondents admitted to playing over 20 hours of videogames per week. Over 35% of the respondents stated that they play at least one hour per week. There is an enormous gender disparity in the amount of time spend on videogames. While less than 1 in 50 incoming freshmen women played more than 10...
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...English (April 10, 2007). This case study was about one of the ways some larger colleges and universities, internationally, are trying to increase revenues in their bottom line. They started to offer things like enrollment exams and entire courses in English due to the rising international enrollment. It speaks of English as being the working language. By working language it refers to the language those stakeholders or participants native tongues. This is a great example of international competition. Businesses are conforming to a standard to catch the eye of the consumer. This case is an example of globalization because it shows a trend in the global markets and culture. More and more colleges and universities want to be accessible to anyone so they offer course work in English, which happens to be the main language of the United States one of the biggest and trendiest countries in the world. The United States has one of the largest economies in the world as well, with a growing number of people. Most of these people want to be successful, well-educated members of society. What better way to entice these people to come abroad and learn the countries culture while getting a quality education. The price of this training is what the leaders of these colleges and universities are looking at. It cost a significant amount more money for a person from the United States to attend a higher education program in France than a French citizen. This puts more money into their budget to...
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... and positive learning experience for students one day in my classroom because homeschooling...
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...FACTORS AFFECTING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF FIRST YEAR COLLEGE STUDENTS OF THE DIVINE WORD COLLEGE OF BANGUED FIRST SEMESTER 2010-2011 Mary B. Gallardo,MST-Math, Alfreinell S. Castillo, BSC, Jessie T. Sibayan, AB, Marianito T. Taeza, AB, and G. Regil D.Valera, BSCE Registrar’s Office, Divine Word College of Bangued June 1, 2011. The objective of this study was to examine factors such as age, gender, high school graduated from, and Grade Point Average (GPA) in fourth year and to identify whether these factors could distinguish differences among students based on academic performance. A survey was made from the available data at the Registrar’s Office. The researchers looked into the records of the first year students of the degree programs namely: Bachelor of Elementary Education (N= 37), Bachelor of Secondary Education (N= 20), Bachelor in Business Administration (N= 53), Bachelor of Science in Nursing (N= 30), and Bachelor of Science in Accountancy (N= 35) a total of 175 subjects. In this particular research, age, school graduated from and gender did not affect academic performance in college among the first year BEEd, BSEd, BSBA, BSAc and BSN students of the Divine Word College of Bangued during the first semester 2010-2011. Academic performance was significantly associated with the grade point average in high school. Introduction. Learning is a lifetime process. Continues learning equips an individual as a student with a larger tapestry of knowledge, a...
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...Ashley Ingle Mrs. Armstrong English 1301 9, Dec 2013 Part-time students vs. Full-time The number of students attending college part-time seems to be rising more and more each year. Most students are more than likely to work while in college. Students attending college part-time has increased more than 10 percent within the last 30 years. Most students who are attending college have to get a job to support themselves along the way. Many of them believe that if they have a job while in college, they will have an even better job once they graduate and receive their bachelors or even master’s degree. Students that are attending college while working a part-time job like to think of their selves as young adults. They are trying to do everything they can to pay the bills and get themselves back and forth to school and work. Students who attend a community college tend to work more hours per week than students who attend a University. Most part-time students only make minimum wage due to the fact that most of their time is being occupied by going to class and studying. It is proven that “effects of working while in college varies by the type of job held and its relation to the academic environment”. (Working in college, 8) Part-time student employment has many advantages. It is a fact that students that are in class more than they are at work have higher GPAs than those who work more than they are in class. Professors believe that students who work part-time are have more performance...
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...demands urgent attention to attain their goals. A numerous researches have been conducted to contribute to determine the predictors of educational success of college students. A research work always takes the advantages of the information and the knowledge that had been accumulated in the past as a result of constant research endeavour by mankind. According to Koul (2009) research can never be undertaken in the isolation of the work that has already been done on the problems related to the study propose by any researcher. Every researcher reviewed the related literature from the different resources that includes research journal, articles, books, magazines, encyclopedias, dissertations, abstracts, international year books, theses and most important in the present era the internet access. The detailed account of review of related literature pertaining to variables under study, namely academic achievement, parental encouragement, achievement motivation and intelligence is presented here under. 2.1 STUDIES RELATED TO ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT Krishnan (1977) conducted a study on non-intellectual factors and their influence on academic achievement. The sample comprised of 180 students of sixth to ninth class studying in central school Tirupati and was divided into three groups depending on their parents‟ education as high, middle and low. The results indicated that parents‟ educational status had significant influence on the academic achievement of their children. ...
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...CHAPTER 1 Effective Study Habits of College Students and their Effects to the Academic Performance I. Introduction Everyone says that education is the key to success. But do you really know what is the meaning of education? According to the dictionary, education is the act or process of educating or being educated. It is a form of learning in which one’s accumulated knowledge, skills and values are transmitted or transferred to others through teaching, training, research and others. It is very important to both personal and professional life of a person in a number of ways. Through it, people earn respect and recognition. But education is nothing without learning. Learning is often confused with education. Education is only a part of learning while learning is the whole process which involves learning to love, to socialize and to behave. It refers to the acquisition of new knowledge, skills, behavior and preferences or it simply means the acquisition of new information. You can say that education is successful if you have learned something and apply it in your everyday life. Since understanding information is the key aspect of learning, it is important for learners to recognize what they understand and what they do not. But everyone differs in perceiving things. Everyone have different techniques and ways on how to understand the topics being discussed or tackled. These techniques or ways they use are the so called Study Habits. What are these Study Habits? These are the things...
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...All College Students A growing number of college students today are facing unnecessary hardships upon graduation from college because they lack preparation, and the necessary skills needed to manage their financial circumstances. Lack of knowledge combined with distracting, busy study schedules have led many college students to make poor decisions, leading to costly consequences upon graduation. According to the Project on Student Debt at The Institute for College Access & Success (TICAS) in the college graduate class of 2011, two-thirds had an average of $26,600 in student loan debt upon graduation; at the same time the unemployment rate among new graduates was at 8.8 percent ("Average Student Debt Climbs to $26,600 for Class of 2011"). As a result, thousands of new graduates are forced to face huge amounts of debt on student loans that they cannot pay, immediately after graduating. There has been talk on Capitol Hill about federal loans to help graduates with their debt. Government involvement to fix the problem seems very retroactive considering that universities could and should have taken a more proactive approach. Universities must better prepare their students for the foreseeable financial hardships they could face upon graduation by providing mandatory financial planning counseling to all students. Without proper counseling and direction, it is very easy for students to make big mistakes when it comes to seeking financial assistance to pay for college. All...
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...results have shown that training is not significant in the determination of wages, which shows the poor quality of training in the overall economy. Results were obtained by Ordinary Least Square (OLS) technique. However, schooling and other demographic variables have expected signs and magnitudes. The recommendations of the study based on empirical findings are toward technical education and vocational training institutions; they should ideally have to devise their technical education and vocational training exactly according to the requirements of industry. Empirical results also emphasize to improve the quality of training. Keywords: Wages, Investment in human capital, Training, Cross-section data, Industries, Developing country 1. Introduction Training in general and skills development in particular, not only play a vital role in individual, organizational and overall national economic growth but are integral part of Human Resource Development (HRD). Empirical literature on the subject topic suggests that human capabilities can be improved through better education and training [Haq (2002)]. Education and training are indispensable instruments for improving labour mobility, adaptability and productivity, thus contributing to enhancing firms’ competitiveness...
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