Balingasa High School

B J.Aquino Cruzstreet , Balingasa

Quezon City
Home Economics

The Challenges And Difficulties Experienced by working Students Of Senior

High School In Online Education: A Phenomenological Study

A research proposal presented to

The faculty of Balingasa High School

In Partial fulfillment of the requirement of the strand of

Home Economics

Presented by:

Go, Kertstephen A. / Corpuz, Babie H.

Madrilejo, Yesha Anne / Florentino, Jhanna Nicole

Tomenio, Zeidie / Angeles, Venus Heart

Arsolon, Alexandra Dave / Denia, Arador Rivera

Guerrero, Gerick jhay P. / Lonsame, Mark Ryan

Ruta, Jamella / Orogo Janet M.

Cagampang, Danniela R.

June 11,2022
 Chapter I

THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

INTRODUCTION

ABSTRACT

This study explores how the student creates ways to maximize their time in
working and in studying. The said study also aims to investigate and identify
students' experiences while working. They are starting at how difficult their
situation. Next, the problems they encounter. Then, how they deal and cope
with such difficulties. The purpose of this study is to investigate the
experiences of working while studying. In this study, a qualitative study is
used. It is a subjective report which made utilization of a phenomenological
way to deal with accumulating important information. The method that is used
in the process of making this part of the study is the Snowball technique. Based
on the participants’ responses on their perceptions on working while studying,
it is confirmed that financial support, self-development and internal motivation
to integrate theory and practice are among the driving forces of working while
studying at university. The findings also show that the participants have happy
feeling and good time management. Moreover, it shows that the effective ways
of overcoming the problems they encounter is through good time management
and self-reflection. The last research question intended to ask the participants
their suggestions and recommendations for students who have similar
condition. Among the suggestions are the students who decide to work while
studying must be first of all committed and disciplined.

Forming the Student normalizing there strategy and time being suit and rural
self control in their emotions looking at their own past glory in studying and
not expecting the money they have been given by their parent
Rationale:
Continuance commitment is essential in our world today because employees have the fear that a loss
of their jobs will affect their income and their livelihood. This is not an exception for working
students. The Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Philippines has recounted that eight of the
students are working student. Work-study is also an accepted practice of the most Seventh-day
Adventist universities. This study seeks to investigate the continuance commitment of the students as
related to compensation and social support. This study is correlational research design. Out of the 4
student, working students in senior High 2 were randomly sampled to answer the self-constructed
questionnaires. This study revealed that there is a high positive significant relationship
between compensation and continuance commitment and a moderate positive significant
relationship between social support and continuance commitment. Also, there was no significant
difference in continuance commitment based on sex, age, and the number of units of the working
students. Balancing school work and a social life while coupled with the newly found freedom of
living away from home is often a formidable challenge. Add a part-time job to that mix, and the
burden can become overwhelming, affecting all aspects of a student’s life and his physical and
mental well-being
 Statement of the problem
The Researcher Target the Main Problem of the Student’s time and even in the pandemic
conclusional theory of us researcher knowing the value of studying and working at the same time day
by day work in the sent Working students that are working off-campus tend to have few friends in
the campus because they are not always around. These students have less time socializing and
enjoying and cannot establish relationships because of their work outside the campus. This may also
lead to depression and drug abuse to students.

This study focuses on the problems encountered by working students of the and its effect ontheir
academic performance as basis for a proposed action plan.

Particularly, this study attempts to answer the following questions:

1. When did you start working? What kind of job do you work now?

2. Since online class how do you manage your prioties to meet deadlines in your school
activities?

3. What are the common Problems you experience if you have tight schedule in online class
and your work?

4. Do you still complete your sleep before going to your work and taking an online class ?
how did you manage it?

5. As a working Student how difficult time management for you? Explain your Answer.

6. What are the solutions will you do if you have online classes and work at the same time?

7. As a working Student do you think that you can still maintain your academic
performances while you are working at the same time? How?

8. Do you have free time? What do you usually do when you have free time?

9. What are the Reason that you are a working student? How much time do you have to do
your School activities? How hard it is?

10. As a working Student what will you advise to other working students like you have that
are struggling during these days?

General Statement
Filipino students are still able to support themselves financially through working although they have
financial problems. Filipino working students namely online jobs, paid corporate internship, fast-
food crew, and school jobs. Filipino students are struggling because they have to meet the standards
in their work so that they will not lose their job and maintain academic performance so that they will
not get a failing grade.
 Scope and delimitation
The Researcher choose this question so that it will remain from forming it’s our own will and the
ones who have want to research about the nature of a working student trying every possible way and
outcome they have chosen path in the present to future economy surviving such tremendous
workflow of the days heavy money flow in our country time to time resembles in century of a parent
doesn’t have enough financial in the

Knowing there job is the most time were influence by making money and studying to get the
Passing grade of a working student, knowing there job is the priority of the researcher how they
manage the time given by work and school projects every work sometime have 8 hrs of work and 12
of work that has been in this defilabiration of the exhausting work and school draining the student
brain out of their sanity and making it leading to a suicide that is why we choose to ask the work they
have focus on the working students.

Choosing the prioties they have given in the hard life in this pointing out the right thing in
Becoming a working student helping their parent paying the bills with it while studying in the such
short period of time of the exhaustion they been through looking for opportunity to be a successful
Human being in the he reasons why students work is due to budgetary need, meet a quick or basic
necessity, and to help the understudies in their future objectives. This was supported by the study of
Furr and Elling understudies take fewer attributes in school because of work duties. As a result, the
students' lost confidence to enroll and are dropping out and started to find a stable job.

Investigating the experiences of working students is the purpose of this study, on how hard
their encounters are, to know the significant differences between working and non-working students.
Next, to gather relevant data on how did the working students’ cope up with their struggles and
difficulties. Also, this study aims to know the motivations of working students. Lastly, to fully
understand the experiences of a working student and to help the students shortly to understand what
it takes to work while studying. In generalization, this study aims to grasp the essence and entirety of
a working student's life

Researches about working students are mostly conducted at universities in developed

countries, but those researches lack knowledge about how working students face their everyday
lives and how they conquer every problem they encounter working student reached an abnormal
state, job-hiring started to show the negative impacts that were attributed to it since it lessens
instructive fulfillment and scholarly execution particularly among youthful laborers without school
training. On the other hand, if working at a young age proves to be a favorable aspect of the
economy.
 Significance Of the Study
This study is significant and would be beneficial to the following:

Working Students

This study will motivate them to manage their responsibilities towards school and work so that their
academic performance will not be affected in favor of their work or vice-versa.

Students

This study will give the regular students an idea on how important education is.
This will motivate them to be more focused on their studies

Parents

This study will give the parents idea on the problems working students have encountered.
This will motivate them to become more supportive and more understanding towards their children.

School Administrators

School administrators will benefit from the results of the study by applying the proposed action plan
which will help minimize drop-outs among working students.

Teachers

This study will give teachers an idea on the problems encountered by working students.
Thus, they will understand them better.

Definition of Terms
Academic Performance

It is the level of the students’ learning outcomes.

Action Plan

Is a devised to intervene to a problem being assessed.

Problems Encountered

The hindrance and obstacles the working students met that Would affect their
academic performance.

Working Students

Students who are working while studying either outside or Inside the campus.
METHODOLOGY
The method that is used in the process of making this part of the study is the Interview
technique is a non-probability sampling method that was employed to draw up a sample of
participants who provided adequate information for the investigation. Which we ask them the
Questions Some have answered the it is not easy to be a working student and some answered it is
neutral because they have still have time to the projects through the entire year of the semester and
even the last semester of the school activities making such time included the online class pressure
day by day even so the student remain calm and make their own time management depending on
their classes time.

Result of the Study

This chapter has been formulated to answer the research question keeping the literature
review and research findings from the interviews in consideration. The findings and discussion will
be organized according to the research questions and interview questions. This way, it will be easier
to see the patterns and direct responses from the informants.
Student were force to work due to their family bill or Debt they have in such precautionary
Helping their family in such a tremendous ways of the paying the bills some have show their own
time management saying that working is easy or neutral depending in their circumstances in the time
Frame they have classes some of them completed

Asking them One on one is not they have pressure some of them utterly chose to just study in
their own benefits saying it is not a permanent work just study then you can have more permanently
working status in your life

Research Question 1: When did you start working? What kind of job you work now?
This Research Question know when did they start working and studying at the same
Time from what job they have now in this present
“Dati may work ako pass few months pero ngayun wala na”

Some answered
“i actually started in my 2nd sem starting so basically it start in last month i am a part time a
discord grinder we log into the server and just promote the server so, we do some engagement in
their we talk about love, life and even crypto currency and Etc. We could also join an event then we
get back white listed, then we get paid when my friends recommend me”
“Last month,Cashier at 7 eleven”

Knowing their work

Key Themes How they have earned their money
Some Friends will invite you

Research Question 2: Since online class how do you manage your priorities to meet deadlines in
In your school activities?
 This Research Question you will know how much time they have to pass all the activities in
The online class and managing all their time studying while working

“Di ko na inuuna yong mga bagay nayan mas inuuna ko yong mga activities kesa sa mga
Bagay na hanggang ngayon ko lang mas pinapriority kona yung pag aaral”

“Making time management, I do my activities after work”

Managing their time

Key Themes To tired of doing the work
Be Focus on

Research Question 3: What are the common problems you experience if you have tight
Schedule in online class and your work?
“Wala na mas naka focus na talga ako sa pag- aaral pero nung may work ako o medyo hirap
Ako sa time management”

“My Common problem is when there is an Online Class or Zoom class”

It ;s hard because they are tired

Key Themes Some problem is the Online class schedule
Focus on the one thing they are good at

Research Question 4: Do you Still complete your sleep before going to you work and taking an
Online class? How did you manage it?

“Nope my sleep only is probably 4-5 hrs”

“Date siguro mga 4 hrs lang yung tulog ko kase nga galing akong trabaho tapos gigising ng
umaga para mag online class”

They don’t have enough sleep

Key Themes Some of them can’t keep in the online discussion

Research Question 5: As a working student how difficult time management for you?

“Probably hard but i need a job to earn a money”

“Sa experience ko manage ko namn sya kaso ngalang mahirap”

In need of financial
Key Themes It is hard because your momentarly focus on
working
Research Question 6: What are the solutions will you do if you have online classes and work at
The same time?

“I will say to my teacher that i have a work on that time so he will know that i will not attend
the class”

“Mas uunahin ko nalng siguro yung pag aaral kase di ko na sya masyado gamay yung mga
Gawain na binibigay”

Some of them just tell through the teacher about

Key Themes his condition
Some chooses that just study than work

Research Question 7: As a working student do you think that you can still maintain your
Academic performances while you are working at the same time?How?

“Yes i can still maintain because i make time do my home works and i have time to work”

“Yes i have maintain it a bit just keep hanging into the edges of my own strength”

Key Themes They just maintain their strength

Research Question 8: Do you have free time? What do you usually do when you have free
Time?

“Yes i have free time usually if i have free time im watching Korean series”

“Yes i have but i just rest it so that i have time in my school works

Watching entertaining series

Key Themes Choosing to rest
Focusing the School Works

Research Question 9: What are the reason that you are a working student? How much time do
Have to do your School activities?how hard it is?

“My reason is because i need to earn a money for the future, i have time to do my school if
i’m not in the work”
 “It is really hard to have time management between two additional activities and work at the
same time”

Priority is money for the future finace

Key Themes Time management big problem

Research Question 10: As a working student what will you advise to other working students
Like you that are struggling during these days?

“Keep Doing because in the end its worth it to have money.”

“My Advice is that just do first a school works your job is not permanent there is time you
only have just finish your collage then you can have a better work than before the time
being”

Recommendation

In this stage, the researchers are able to give recommendations to each person who is involved in this
study.

• To the working students. Treat the time for studying like the time for working. You should balance
your time for both. Time management is essential in working while studying.

• To the future researchers. Increase the number of participants to attain more key themes and more
accurate results.

• To the teachers. Motivate your students to pursue and reach their dreams. For them to never give up
and surpass all the challenges they encounter.

• To the parents. Still guide your son or daughter by providing special time and making them feels
valued. This boosts their abilities and strengths.

•Set Realistic Goals You might have decided that this new phase in your life should mean a whole
new you, which can lead to some overly ambitious goals. You might initially feel like you can eat
healthy meals, study for an hour every night and work out every morning, but trying to implement all
of those big changes at the same time is a recipe for failure.

•Prioritize you time’s easy to put off a little bit of work here and there, especially if you don’t have
parents or teachers looking over your shoulder. To avoid last-minute cramming or feeling swamped
by your work, be sure to set aside small chunks of time dedicated to completing assignments.

•Learn to Say “No” It will take some time to adjust to your new workload. You will be flooded with
requests to join clubs, fraternities and volunteer causes, but you shouldn’t add on any additional
stress until you can handle it. Maintaining your school, work and home life should be your first
priority; other opportunities will still be there later.
 Chapter II

Related Studies and Literature

There is a diverse division that depends on the company that they apply and the company which offer
an adequate rate to suit theneeds of its student workers. An amount that abides in order the student
workers can able to continue their traditional university degree. Student roles including the full- time
and the part-time workers. Full-time workers render duty from 6-8 hours, while the part-time is 4-5
hours
College students force to work during their pre-college and post- college year. They sought to retain
a social connectedness to their families because they believe they are now to help their parents
Students start to work as early as 15 years old. Work and education in an adolescent life is a primary
domain These students also try to support their studies and their families These students are probably
still on their elementary or high school level. Student engagement is widely understandable in work
and study. That needed more focus and dedication. By this they can attain greater attention. Even if
they are a little bit bother of the errands on their respective working place. Krause said “the time,
energy and resources are designed to enhance learning in both school and work”. Students who are
working while studying in college find their part-time jobs beneficial and on the other hand,
problematic. Beneficial because of the income they can get. It provides a positive educational
benefits on students. Seeking job students can enhance their skill which is more needed in the
industry. Thus, companies who are encouraging the students to work are continuing to develop their
program to provide the needy and aspiring applicant to have a settled job in a near future career. It is
also beneficial if the work is related to the students chosen course. This may be particularly
beneficial as an aid to academic knowledge and career prospect. On the other hand, it is problematic
because, when working long hours, As reported by Steinberg engaging students in part-time and
some full-time employment is progressively a common phenomenon everywhere. As also stated in a
study 30 years ago, working while studying provides students with quite naturally an indication of
the requirements that will be needed to function effectively in one's later career In recent years,
further studies found that students who are working part-time can easily develop team cooperation,
customer care, communication, and practical skills Students can have the prospect to directly relate
the experiences of working part-time to enhance and refine their academic knowledge, motivation
and employment prospects. Thus, some researcher have concluded that a combination of financial
needs and the opportunity to gain experiences will ultimately enhance career opportunities in the
future. According to the research conducted by Watts and Pickering, while working part-time and
studying full-time has a variety of positive outcomes, respondents generally viewed part-time
employment as a necessity to survive in the contemporary higher education sphere. In Manthei and
Gilmore's study, it is understandable that the money earned from part-time employment is spent
usually on essential living expenses. From the perspective of students themselves, part-time work is
often an introduction to the real world which will assist them both in personal and career
development especially in the higher education sector. Higher education institutions should identify
opportunities to increase the extent to which students could be more familiar with work and expose
them to educational, part-time vocational and career experiences There is a wide variety of studies
that examined the impacts of part-time employment on full-time students. Based on the research of
Manthei and Gilmore for instance, considered that working part-time leaves less desired time to
study. Also, Jogaratnam and Buchanan specified that new students who choose to do a part-time job
while having full-time academic load were most likely to suffer from stress and sleep deprivation. As
many studies

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