| Show Working Does Effect Grades P. employment has a definite effect on college students' Students working more than 12 hours a week have somewhat lower grades than those working fewer hours or not at it was revealed in a survey conducted at Illinois Institute of More than one hundred representing a cross-section of the student body reported their work activity for a typical one-week period in the school according to William D. mechanics who made the of the employed students surveyed work more than 12 hours a Diemer pointed one-fourth of them put in more than 20 hours a week in outside Thirty-five percent of these students were employed from four to 40 hours a or an average of 15 he The proportion of working students among seniors was 50 per slightly higher than the 30 per cent figure for employed the student who is working a greater number of hours each week does not carry as heavy an academic commented the data shows that this is the is A light class load 11 to 15 hours was carried by one-fourth of all students who did not work and by 34 per cent of students who Half of the students who are not employed and 60 per cent of employed students carried a medium class load of 16 to 18 Only six per cent of the employed students and 25 per cent of the others carried a heavy class load of 19 to 21 |
