Academic Performance of Working and Non-Working English Major Students at Bestlink College of the Philippines

Vol.3, No.2

Abstract

Keeping good grades and actively participating in academics are some of the requirements for college students to finish their study. As the structure of education slowly changes, students find themselves overburdened with academic requirements and task performances. At some point, being a working and non-working student has a corresponding responsibility especially when it comes to time management. Students’ academic performance is an issue that deeply concerns students, parents, teachers, and the school administration that is in need of deliberate response. The researchers formulate this study to determine the difference on the academic performance of working and non-working English major students at Bestlink College of the Philippines and find ways on how to address the problems frequently encountered by the students as assessed by the teacher-respondents. Descriptive quantitative research strategy was employed by the researchers. In selecting the respondents, purposive sampling was used, wherein a total of 27 teachers handling English major students were asked to answer the researcher-made questionnaire that serves as the major instrument for gathering data and it was administered on-site. The gathered data were tallied, tabulated and analyzed through the use of frequency, percentage, weighted mean and ranking. Results showed that there is no significant difference between the academic performance of both working and non-working students as they were performing well with their attendance, participation, and major exam but it was more evident that non-working students are betterperformers compared to working students. It was also found that the main problem the teacher-respondents frequently encountered in dealing with working and non-working students’ academic performance is the late submission of their outputs, causing the decline on their grades. However, it further revealed that the least problem the teacher-respondents dealt with is the students’ negative attitudes.

Through the process of this paper, the researchers were able to see that despite the differences in managing their time to meet their academic requirements, both working and non-working students were doing their best to perform better in their study, it is just discovered that working students are more struggling that made them lag their non-working peers. To address this, there is a need for communication and consideration from the teachers and school administration to help those students from dropping out and not continuing their study. Students on their part should exert more effort and develop an effectivetime management plan to meet their academic tasks and performances.