The impact of term‐time employment on higher education students’ academic attainment and achievement
The impact of term‐time employment on higher education students’ academic attainment and achievement
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学期就业对高等教育学生学业成绩和成绩的影响
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2008
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C. Callender
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英国本科生的长期就业是一个日益增长的现象，但它很少受到政府和政策制定者的关注。虽然有许多关于这个问题的研究，但很少有人探讨长期就业对学生实际成绩的影响，而且这些研究也很有限。本文试图填补这一空白。该研究使用了来自英国六所大学的1000名学生的数据，量化了学生的有偿工作对他们实际成绩和学位成绩的影响，同时控制了他们进入高等教育的学业成绩和其他因素，包括他们的工作时间。它表明，无论上的是哪所大学的学生，学期工作对他们的最后一年成绩和学位成绩都有不利影响。学生工作时间越长，负面影响越大。因此，每周工作平均小时数的学生获得好学位的可能性比相同的非工作学生低三分之一。一些最不合格和最贫穷的学生受到的不利影响最大，使高等教育中现有的不平等现象长期存在。2006/07年学生财务的变化可能会帮助他们中的一些人，但长期就业可能仍然是高等教育的一部分。
Term‐time employment among Britain’s undergraduates is a growing phenomenon but it has received scant attention from government and policy makers. Although there are numerous studies on the subject, few have explored the impact of term‐time employment on students’ actual attainment and those that have are limited. This article attempts to fill that gap. Using data derived from 1000 students in six UK universities, it quantifies the impact of students’ paid work on their actual marks and degree results, while controlling for their academic attainment on entry to higher education and other factors including their hours of work. It shows that irrespective of the university students attended, term‐time working had a detrimental effect on both their final year marks and their degree results. The more hours students worked, the greater the negative effect. Consequently, students working the average number of hours a week were a third less likely to get a good degree than an identical non‐working student. Some of the least qualified and poorest students are most adversely affected perpetuating existing inequalities in HE. The 2006/07 changes to student finances may help some of them, but term‐time employment is likely to remain part of the HE landscape.