The latest snapshot of how University of California students spend their time suggests sleep and socializing were far more important than classes and studying to the average undergraduate there. But that was two years ago, before institutions and families plunged into economic turmoil, and things may have changed.
In a survey conducted on all nine of the university’s undergraduate campuses in the spring of 2008 and completed by 63,600 students, students on average reported getting six-and-a-half hours of sleep each night and spending 41 hours a week on social and leisure activities. Meanwhile, students said they spent a little more than 28 hours each week combined on class and homework….
Picture: San Juan Capistrano, long ago.
7 comments:
There you go again, complaining.
Well, THAT explains everything. Thanks. I appreacite how you have time to read the Chronicle too - I wish I did.
I think it is reasonable to assume that UC students study more than CC students. Years ago, I gave my students questionnaires regarding their study habits (among other things). During that time, it became clear that any student who studied more than 2 hours per week (for my course) felt entitled to count himself among the studious and responsible kind. If they were to devote the same time to all classes, the total would be between 10-12 hours per week. As i recall, their social life occupied more of the clock.
This is the paragraph from The Chronicle article that got my attention:
"In average weekly study time, the difference between a 3.60 GPA and a 2.79 or lower GPA is only about an hour a week, with high-GPA students averaging about 13 hours a week of studying while students with GPAs of 2.79 or lower reported studying for a little less than 12 hours each week."
What does that say about instructor expectations?
I must be dumb. Spell it out for us, please.
We're doomed.
harumph.
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