“the Academic Performance of Working Students in Colegio de Dagupan, Dagupan City, School Year 2011-2012”

Chapter 1
The Problem

A. Introduction

“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles Vanish. Motivation is what gets you Started; Habit is what keeps you going".
- John Quincy Adams
What is Academic Performance?
Academic Performance refers on how student deal with their studies, it is on how they do the entire task that they assign to. Base on how they will cope up or communicate in their studies.

So what it means to become a working student?
A working student is an individual who works while studying. It’s a matter of time management. In order to support their needs, they need to work for themselves. Being a working student is kind of tough for us ordinary students.
Value of Study?
So when we say the value of study, it is the importance of studying for us student. Why studying is acquire? Because without it we can’t communicate with others, we can’t land a better job. Studying is simply a key for success. That’s why we are entering school because all of us believe that through knowledge we can achieve everything in life.
Overview at Working Student
The Researchers topic The Academic Performance of Working Students in Colegio De Dagupan tells about the conduct of those students who are working at the same studying. We choose this matter for us to better understand on how they manage their time and what its effects to their studies.
The Researchers have chosen the topic to satisfy their curiosity. As for us student whose only supported by their parents can't encounter these way of life. So we settle this issue to be familiarize with their community. As a matter of fact they're highly regarded since they supervise their time in working and studying.
We the researchers know how life hard is. Because of poor economy the youth supported themselves to be able to attend school. That is another bases why they're some students are working due to the fact of insufficiency when it come to financial problem. They the working students take responsibility for themselves to support their needs.
According to (D.T. Smart, C.A. Kelley, J.S. Conant, 1999) they believe that most of working students are having tough point organizing their studies while working. For us researchers it isn’t affecting the performance of every individual. It depends upon the student who is working on how they classify their time. Every student has their own potential it is on how they manipulate and employ it.
The matter Academic Performance of working Student centralizes about the act of those students depending in their studies. If they excel more in class or they perform less. What marks do they have? What subject they perform well? Are they coping up in their subjects? That is the main goal of the researchers.

B. Statement of the Problem 1. What are the factors that affect the academic performance of working students?
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____ 2. In which subject areas do working students excel in? in which subject do they perform less? a) English b) Programming c) Discrete d) Filipino e) Code of ethics f) Quality Consciousness g) Intro to Internet h) P.E 3. How do working students maintain their grades despite having a job?
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C. Significance of the Study The researchers believes that working students, particularly Colegio De Dagupan will be benefited from the findings of this study since the study provides basis for awareness and better understanding of how working student’s study affected their academic performance.

Students will be given information on how study affects their academic performance. The result of the study will make them aware of the common study of Working Students among their co- education students.
The worth of Working Student for ordinary Students, base on our survey some says that they gain more marks because they have inspiration. They can support themselves in their own way not relying in others. Unbelievable and inflexible is the right word to portray them because they motive every student. Parents will increase their motivation and improves their self esteem for their children.
Once they have can understand the importance of parent involvement they can begin to change the way they are living and truly get involved with the life of their child. Teachers will also be help in understanding better the diversity of learning of their students specially for working students and as understanding they will motivate them to get more effort for their study to get a good academic performance. As such, it is hoped that they could develop more effective methodologies in teaching their subject matter.

Community may be able to use the result of the study in farther research similar to what the study is.

D. Scope and Limitation of the Study
The scope of this research is the Academic Performance of Working Students here in Colegio De Dagupan of all year levels. The limitations of this research are only those working students that are currently enrolled at CDD and is having the prescribe study load for a given semester of year 2011-2012. Only those undergraduate working students are allowed to participate in the research.

Chapter 2
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES
According to Michelle Bell-In educational institutions, success is measured by academic performance, or how well a student meets standards set out by local government and the institution itself. As career competition grows ever fiercer in the working world, the importance of students doing well in school has caught the attention of parents, legislators and government education departments alike. Most likely, every student exceeds their limitations nowadays. They manage time in working, education, and social life. For what reason that is, well, they do this in order to be able to pay up for education expenses. Some others just do this to earn a little extra spending money, for them to be able to buy something which they want to avail without them begging their parents for it.

Basically, part time work is their only choice to get that money they need if they do not have student loans offered at their university. Some students need to pay up for rent, tuition, and etc. Working part time gives them the money and the thought of realizing how important it is. They are also provided with the thought of handling their responsibilities very well if they work part time during college days.

Indeed, working while studying can be tough to handle. It forces you to manage your time and your responsibilities. Sometimes, it makes you choose between the two. Students today tend to sacrifice their time for social life to earn some extra spending cash. They end up being way too busy to have a social life. They don’t even have enough time to sleep which affects their daily performance at school. They organize these responsibilities for a few income or profit. They do all of that for money.