WHAT EFFECTS

DOES WORK LOAD By: Anthony Esquivias,

Lauren Spielvogel,
HAVE ON COLLEGE Anthony Orozco
STUDENTS’ SCHOOL
PERFORMANCE? Group 5 – EDT 180A
1.
OUR SURVEY:
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

Students in science based colleges

tended to have lower G.P.A.’s versus
students in humanities based colleges
who tended to have higher G.P.A.’s.
 OUR DATA

On average there is a tendency

correlated with better time
management skills being
attributed to higher GPAs.
 OUR DATA

There is no strong
correlation between the
hours spent on school work
outside of class and GPA.
 OUR DATA

• The higher the grade

level, the lower the
GPA. (on average)
 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.