"the amount of time college students have spent on academic work has gone from 40 hours per week in 1960, to 27 in 2003, to just 15 hours in 2008. During that time, the average grade has risen"https://quillette.com/2021/04/24/grade-inflation-is-ruining-education/ …
I found the change from 2003 to 2008 surprising, so I did something the author of this article doesn't seem to have done: I dug up the original papers. It turns out the first two numbers are from a different paper than the last one. Also, it should be 1961, not 1960.
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Here are the two original papers. While I would not be surprised if hours spent studying have continued to decrease, the apparent sudden drop from 2003 to 2008 is probably due to methodological differences. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w15954/w15954.pdf … https://s3.amazonaws.com/ssrc-cdn1/crmuploads/new_publication_3/improving-undergraduate-learning-findings-and-policy-recommendations-from-the-ssrc-cla-longitudinal-project.pdf …
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I wonder are students getting better at studying as well - I don't know how people studied in 1961 but I'd imagine we've gotten more efficient at it
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Thank you, will correct!
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Looks like the basic arithmetic is off:https://twitter.com/mccormick_ted/status/1386856160188317696?s=20 …
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I think it's a reading comprehension problem rather than arithmetic - you get 15 hours (although not "less than 15") if you only look at the 9% of time spent attending class and not the 7% of time spent studying
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