Undergraduates Study Much Less Than Professors Expect, Survey of Student ‘Engagement’ Says

Monday, November 22nd, 2004

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on the latest National Survey of Student Engagement:

Only about 11 percent of full-time students say they spend more than 25 hours per week preparing for their classes — the amount of time that faculty members say is necessary to succeed in college. Forty-four percent spend 10 hours or less studying.

Yet students’ grades do not suggest that they are unprepared for their academic work: About 40 percent of students say they earn mostly A’s, with 41 percent reporting that they earn mostly B’s.

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