Does having a Scholarship or Affect your Work Ethic?

EDT 180C #1

Caroyn Gagan

Jamie Alexander

Izchel Olivares

Myles Litt

4/24/19
Introduction

For this research project, group C1 looked into whether or not having a scholarship

affects your work ethic in college. Specifically, if scholarships affect your work ethic outside of

class. We evaluated work ethic by how long and often a student studied for and their class

attendance. For example, a student who rarely or never missed their classes and studied for over

10 hours a week would be deemed a student with a strong work ethic, while a student that misses

class frequently and rarely studied would be deemed a student with a poor work ethic. We

hypothesized that students with scholarships would have a stronger work ethic than students

without scholarships because the majority of scholarships are merit based and/or have

requirements to keep scholarships. To further research this question, we asked participants to

answer the following questions: What year of study are you in?; How many credits are you

taking this semester?; How many hours do you study in a week?; Are you an in-state, out-of-

state,or international student?; Do you have a scholarship or grant?; How many hours a week do

you spend in extracurricular activities?; How many classes do you miss in a week? To collect the

data, we asked participants to answer these questions through a Google Docs Form, and received

91 responses.

Hypothesis

We think that students that are on a scholarship or grant will work harder and longer than

students that are not. In order to have a scholarship or grant, a student must maintain a certain

GPA. All scholarships at Arizona State University require a minimum GPA of 3.0 which is a B

average. College is harder than high school so we feel that students will be studying longer

hours. We also think that out-of-state students will work harder than in-state students to maintain

that GPA and keep their scholarship. Tuition for out-of-state students is about $45,000 a year
without any financial aid, scholarships, or grants. In-state tuition is about $14,000 a year without

any financial aid, scholarships, or grants. If an out-of-state student loses their scholarship, they

lose way more than the in-state student. We also think that students on scholarship will study

harder than students who are not.

Discussion

We asked how many credits students were taking to determine if scholarships affects work ethic.

There was a total of 91 responses. On the graph below, you can see 24 of the 91 students

answered 15 which became the highest amount of credits. This may be one of the requirements

for the scholarship they earned, in order to maintain it. One hypothesis that we had was that out-

of-state students studied harder than in-state-students. By doing this, we asked out surveyors how

many hours they study a week. We actually found that in-state students actually studied a little

more than out-of-state students. In-state students averaged studying about 11.8 hours a week and

out-of-state students averaged studying about 11.69 hours a week. We also found that that 47 in-

state students never skip class and 17 skip around 1-2 a week and 13 out-of-state students miss

no class and 13 skip 1-2 classes a week. We had to take into consideration that we got more

Arizona's residence taking the survey so we split them up and analysed them separately. For in-

state students, 51.6% didn't miss any school and 18.6% missed 1-2 days a week. For out-of-state

students, 50% didn't miss any and 50% missed 1-2 days. This means that more in-state students

have a better work ethic when it comes to class. Lastly, we found that 51.6% of students on

scholarship, grants, or both missed no class, where 15.3% of students who are not on scholarship,

grant, or both miss no class.

Conclusion

In conclusion, from all the data we collected, we found that in-state students have a better work

ethic than out-of-state students. We assumed that out-of-state and students on scholarship will

work harder than students who do not. As you can see from the discussion we were able to prove

that students on a scholarship,grant, or both do have a better work ethic than those who do not,

but we were wrong about out-of-state student studying harder and longer than in-state-students.