大學生工作時數的理想上限：從課業學習的觀點探討

The Maximum Hour College Students Can Work at Per Week: From the Perspective of Coursework Learning

黃雅容(Ya-Rong Huang)

《公民訓育學報》 19期 (2008/01) Pp. 83-100

https://doi.org/10.6231/CME.2008(19)04

摘要

本研究試圖瞭解大學生每週工作應當不要超過多少小時以上，才不致於在課業學習方面，表現顯著不如沒有工作的大學生，換句話說，本研究擬找出從課業學習觀點，大學生工作時數的理想上限。本研究以台灣高等教育資料庫94學年度大三學生問卷調查為分析資料，分析方法是將學生依工作時數分為七組，透過雪費法事後多重比較考驗，檢視那幾個工作組與無工作組在五項課業學習指標上有顯著差異。結果顯示對蹺課而言，理想工時上限是每週1小時，對選課受到上課時段影響程度而言，上限是每週15時，就圖書館的使用頻率而言，上限是每週20時，就讀書時間與完成課業作業有困難這兩項指標而言，上限都是每週25小時，本文建議以每週25時作為大學生工作時數的理想上限。此外，本文還發現工時和圖書館使用是倒U形的非線性關係，工時和蹺課則是正相關的線性關係。本文最後討論研究發現對學校實務和學術研究的意義。

關鍵字

大學生打工 ； 工作時數 ； 學習

並列摘要

Many undergraduate students in Taiwan worked while in college to sustain their school learning, and yet, some of them seemed to be negatively affected by work and performed poorly in coursework learning. The purpose of this study is to understand empirically the maximum hour per week college students can work at in order not to perform significantly worse than non-working students with regard to coursework learning. For this purpose, seven groups of students working at different length of time were compared on five indicators of coursework learning by an analysis of covariance along with Scheffe post-hoc tests. The participants were a national representative sample of third-year college students who were surveyed by the Center for Research on Educational Evaluation and Development at the National Taiwan Normal University in 2005.The results showed that as compared to nonworking students, students working more than 1 hour per week skipped classes more frequently, students working more than 15 hours per week were more constrained by class time when choosing courses to study, students working more than 20 hours per week used library less often, and finally, students working more than 25 hours per week spent less time studying and were more likely to report having difficulty in completing assignments. Thus, it is suggested that 25 hours per week be the maximum hour college students can work at for the sake of coursework learning.

並列關鍵字

College Students Employment ； Coursework Learning ； Working Hours