What effects does having a job have on a students GPA?

Group C7: Rachel Fahner, Jordan Maiocco, Glenna Sorrell

EDT 180C

Gary Lewallen

April 27, 2017

For our research project, we decided to do what effects having a job has on a student's

GPA. We started off asking simple questions such as what gender, what grade, and what GPA the
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student has. Then we asked questions more pertaining to our research question such as, In what

college is the student enrolled, Does the student have a job, How many hours a week does

the student work, Is their job on or off campus, and Is the job more active or less active. For

collecting data, we used google forms. Students from Professor Lewallens classes took our

survey, giving us the data we needed. After everybody took the different surveys we ended up

having 127 people complete our survey.

For our gender part of the survey our chart showed us that there were sixty more females

than males. There were ninety-three females and only thirty-three males. This shows there are

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more than double the amount of females. Most of the students who took our survey did not state

if they were they were an other gender or if they prefer not to say.

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When separating the 127 respondents into what gender category there were more females

who answered the survey then there was male. Even though less males answered the survey

when comparing their average GPA to the females average GPA they had a higher average than

the females.

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There were 127 respondents who took our survey. 65 were Freshmen, 30 were

Sophomore, 24 were Juniors, and 7 were Seniors. There were more freshmen who took the

survey then there was any other class.

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Out of the 37 Freshmen surveyed their average GPA was 3.32. The 30 Sophomore that

were surveyed their average GPA was 3.05. The 24 Juniors that were surveyed their average GPA

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was 3.12. The 7 Seniors that were surveyed their average GPA was 3.19. The Freshmen had a

higher GPA than any other class.

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Of the students surveyed, the average GPA was a 3.21. Of all the GPAs, the median GPA

was a 3.20. The max GPA was 4.25 while the minimum was 1. According to the ASU GPA

calculator the average GPA of 3.20 is a letter grade of a B and the minimum GPA of 1 is a letter

grade of a D.

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Out of the 127 respondents who filled out what specific college they go to The Mary Lou

Fulton, Teachers College had the most students enrolled with 53 students. The next highest

college that had the most students enrolled was the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences which

had 29 students enrolled. There were no students enrolled in School for the Future of Innovation

in Society as well as Sandra Day OConnor College of Law.

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When looking at the results of the respondents different colleges based on gender there

was in some cases where there were more females who responded that belonged that college than

males. Since Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College was one of the top colleges out of the 53

students 48 were female and 5 were male. The next highest college was College of Liberal Arts

and Sciences. Out of the 29 respondents 23 were female 6 were male.

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When asking the 127 respondents if they had a job 73 people said that they had a job and

54 said they did not have a job.

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When further explored, the average GPA based on if they had a job or not. The average

GPA if they had a job was 3.15. If they did not have a job their average GPA was a 3.30. This

shows that the average GPA is higher if they do not have a job then if the did.

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When breaking it down even more, if the respondents said they did have a job we broke it

down by average GPA by grade. The Freshmen who had a job had an average GPA of 3.32. The

Sophomores who had a job had an average GPA of 2.95. The Juniors who had a job had an

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average GPA of 3.05. The seniors who had a job had an average GPA of 3.04.

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When asking the people who did have a job how many hours a week do they spend

working the average hours was 22.75 hours a week. The maximum hours worked was 60 hours.

The minimum hours worked was 2 hours a week.

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For our research, we decided that it would be important to note whether the students job

was on campus or not. The reason is because if a student's job is on campus then they would

spend less time getting to and from work. Out of the seventy-three people that said they had a job

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that took the survey, sixty of them worked off campus and only thirteen worked on campus. This

shows that most students that have a job work off campus.

The average GPA of students that have a job and it is off campus was over a 3.15.

Students with a job on campus have an average GPA of 3.02. So according to our research

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students that had a job off campus generally have a higher GPA than students with a job on

campus.

Out of the 73 students who responded yes to having a job 50 of the respondents said their

job was active which means they had no free time during work to complete homework. 23

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respondents said they had a less active job which means they had free time during work to

complete their homework.

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When calculating the average GPA for what type of job the respondents had was an

enormous difference. The average GPA for people who had active job was a 3.09. Compared to

the average GPA of an active type of job the less active type had an average GPA of 3.27.

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Through our research, we have found that there are plenty of attributes that can have an

impact on ones grade point average. We have also found that, in many cases, a students GPA

will drop significantly during their sophomore year of college. Our research proved that students

who do not have a job have a significantly higher GPA than those who do have a job. This could

be clearly related to the surplus of time that those students have to spend on their studies. If we

were to do our research over again, I would like to ask students whether their job was primarily

in the mornings, the night time, or overnights to see if that also had an impact on their GPA.

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