WHAT EFFECTS

DOES WORK LOAD By: Anthony Esquivias,

HAVE ON COLLEGE Lauren Spielvogel,

Anthony Orozco
STUDENTS’ SCHOOL
PERFORMANCE? Group 5 – EDT 180A
 OUR SURVEY:
1. What year are you in?

2. What college are you in?

3. What is your GPA?

4. Are you a part of Barrett, the Honors College?

5. How would you rate your time management skills?

6. How many hours (on average) do you spend outside of class on school work per day?
 WHY THIS TOPIC?
• We wanted to know if GPA was affected by what college students are in.

• We wanted to see if their was a correlation between GPA & time spent doing work
outside of class.

• We wanted to observe if time management skills had any correlation with GPA.

• We wanted to see if there was any connection between grade level and GPA.
 OUR DATA
School Vs. GPA
Public Service and Community Solutions, Watts College of

Students in science based colleges Liberal Arts and Sciences, The College of

Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, New College of

tended to have lower G.P.A.’s versus Integrative Sciences and Arts, College of

Health Solutions, College of

students in humanities based colleges Future of Innovation in Society, School for the

who tended to have higher G.P.A.’s. Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of

Teachers College, Mary Lou Fulton

Design and the Arts, Herberger Institute for

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4

GPA
 OUR DATA
Management Skills
Vs.
GPA

On average there is a tendency 3.9

3.51 3.49
correlated with better time 3.06
3.4
3.17
3.29 3.24 3.25 3.32

GPA
management skills being
attributed to higher GPAs.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
MANAGEMENT SKILL RATING
 OUR DATA
Hours of School Work Done Outside of Class
VS.
GPA
There is no strong 5

correlation between the 4

3
hours spent on school work GPA
2
outside of class and GPA. 1

0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
HOURS OF SCHOOL WORK DONE OUTSIDE OF CLASS
 OUR DATA
GRADE VS GPA
3.500

3.400

3.300

3.200
• The higher the grade

GPA
3.100

level, the lower the 3.000

2.900
GPA. (on average) 2.800

2.700

2.600
FRESHMAN SOPHOMORE JUNIOR SENIOR POST-BACC GRADUATE

GRADE
 ANALYSIS
• The more time spent out of class studying, has no correlation with a higher GPA.

• Students in Barrett, the Honors College tended to have a 3.9 GPA on average.

• GPA tends to drop among upper-classmen, with freshman having the highest average
GPA.

• Students in science based colleges tended to have lower GPAs versus students in
humanities based colleges who tended to have higher GPAs.