First-Year Students' Employment, Engagement, and Academic Achievement: Untangling the Relationship between Work and Grades

By Gary R. Pike, George D. Kuh, Ryan C Massa-McKinley. 2008

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Student Engagement and Institutional Graduation Rates: Identifying High-Impact Educational Practices for Community Colleges (2014, background): “doi: 10.1080/10668920701382484 Rendón, L. I., Jalomo, R. E., & Nora, A. (2000). Theoretical considerations in the study of minority student retention in higher education.”
What Student Affairs Professionals Need to Know About Student Engagement (2009, background): “Pike et al. (2009) tentatively concluded that student engagement plays a mediating role on work and grades, which could be interpreted perhaps 694 Journal of College Student Development as a compensatory effect of engagement on grades.”
Does Involvement Really Matter? Indicators of College Student Success and Satisfaction (2013, background): “With data from over 55,000 students at 4-year colleges and universities Pike, Kuh, and Massa-McKinley (2008) found student responses for four of the five NSSE benchmarks were positively and significantly related to first-year college grades.”
The Role of Family Support in Facilitating Academic Success of Low-Income Students (2018, methodology): “While focusing on measures of academic engagement, we include hours worked (combining on and off campus employment) as prior research indicates that there is a relationship between the number of hours students spend working and their levels of academic engagement (Pike et al. 2008).”