Determinantes do desempenho acadêmico do estudante trabalhador e do trabalhador estudante

Abstract

The necessity of working while the person is a student occurs for several reasons, among them the lack of income to continue studying, in order to satisfy this necessity, many times the student can deviate from the commitment to the studies. The present work had as objective to verify the variables related to work that have impact on the academic performance of the Accountancy Science and Administration Course at the Technological Federal University of Parana College Pato Branco. This work is methodologically classified as survey. Data were collected through questionnaires with close-ended questions, which were analyzed quantitatively. 120 valid questionnaires were obtained, and after the validation of the questionnaires the Cronbach’s Alpha test was applied to verify the internal reliability of the questionnaire, of which only 2 of the 6 analyzed constructs presented reliability of analysis. From that, 8 correlations were analyzed and the main results were: (i) that gender has influence over the academic performance, women presented higher academic performance, this result was partially corroborated by the existing literature, existing in other surveys, similar and divergent results. And (ii) the number of times the student failed has influence on the academic performance, regarding to this variable, the more failures the student has, the worst his/her academic performance, this result corroborated with the preceding analyzed study. It can be concluded based on the results of the research that variables connected to work and income, when applied to the selected sample, has no statistical significance on academic performance.