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April, 2008

Helping Students Use Their Textbooks More Effectively
By Tiffany F. Culver, Delta State University, and Linda W. Morse, Mississippi State University

Most college students spend little time reading their texts. There’s research to confirm that, but most of us don’t need to look beyond our own classrooms for confirmation. In our case we sampled the undergraduates we teach and they reported that on average they spend 1.88 hours a week reading the required text. The hours reported by first-year students were even less—1.54 hours. Our upperclassmen, primarily educational psychology majors, reported a mean of 2.21 hours each week.

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