Comments for How Much Studying Do College Students Do? at http://i-a-e.org , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://i-a-e.org Fri, 24 May 2013 01:36:01 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://i-a-e.org/iae-blog/how-much-studying-do-college-students-do.html#comment-526 I took interest in this issue when the Dept of Ed said that colleges had to define their credits. Maybe the interest is mainly in what defines an online course, but there is also substantial variation in contact time for traditional classrooms. My school reduced contact time about fifteen years ago with the pretense that more work would be done outside of class. As you have noted, NSSE has shown that most students don't come close to the Carnegie standard, much less doing more than that and Arum and Roska have a whole book about these issues. I found the initiative to scan the class schedules of the US News top 125 (liberal arts) schools and found that about a third of these schools don't come close to requiring a 50 minute hour of contact time per credit. They give 4 credits where they should give 3. My school is in between, we have 60 minute class hours, so we're only 20 minutes light per week. I hope that the Ed Dept demands will move higher education back toward the day when more time was spent teaching and studying. - Richard Claycombe Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:31:05 +0100 http://i-a-e.org/iae-blog/how-much-studying-do-college-students-do.html#comment-409 I know that many students are in school because they are strongly motivated to want to learn. They work hard and they do their best to learn the material and to get their money's work out of their higher education academic program of study. However, many others view the main purpose of college is to get a degree and not expend too much effort in the process. The articles cited suggest that faculty members carry much of the blame for the situation of many students not doing as much work as we (the faculty) would like, ad the grade inflation. I view the situation as a game of students versus faculty, and that the students are winning (the game) and losing (in getting a good education). - Dave Moursund Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:00:56 +0100