Library Workshop 2

Article 1

Wenz M, Wei-Chounn Y. 2010. Term-time employment and the academic performance of undergraduates. J Education Finance. 35(4):358-373.

1) This article talks about the amount of time used outside of school to finance their higher education. It supports the research question perfectly and can be used.
2) Students that work for financial reasons earn lower grades than students who work for career-specific skills.
3) They want to find out if this is a trend among many undergraduates or not.
4) This is essentially the hypothesis we have that we are working with.

Article 2

Callender C. 2008. The impact of term-time employment on higher education students' academic attainment and achievement. J Education Policy. 23(4) 359-377.

1) This article also talks about the relationship between the amount of time worked in higher education relating to grades.
2) Students do less well academically because of part-time jobs they take to support themselves while studying.
3) They are conducting this research to perhaps change policy or to find ways to help students.
4) Again this is basically exactly like the question we brought up in class. It will be interesting to use this article to support our hypothesis.

Article 3 


Pike G. 2008. First-year students' employment, engagement, and academic achievement: untangling the relationship between work and grades. J NASPA. 45(4) 560-582

1) This article uses statistical significance to see if there is a relationship between the two.
2) Does working affect the outcome of grades.
3) Like the past two articles this is essentially our research questions except THIS ARTICLE HAS FIGURES which are always nice to see a visual representation of data.

Article I'm not using

Crede M, Roch S. 2010. Class attendance in college: a meta-analytic review of the relationship of class attendance with grades and student characteristics. J Education Research. 80(2) 272-295.

1) Article talks about going to class and grades, not about working and grades. Not our question.
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