Fresh figures from the Studiebarometeret shows that there are large differences in how many hours the students spend on the study. Over 30 000 students have responded to the survey.
Students were asked to indicate the number of hours per week, on average so far in the study, the use of:
learning activities organized by the institution including all teaching and guidance as well as practice, if relevant).Egenstudier (read the syllabus, do the assignments, participate in seminars and other group work).Paid work
In 2018, reported the students that they on average used by 16.2 hours per week in organized learning activities, and 18,8 hours per week on egenstudier. The average number of hours spent in total on professional work was 34,5. On paid work, reported the students that they on average used the 7.9 hours per week.
One of the results that attract attention is that tannlegestudentene enter to use almost twice as much time on the studies as sosiologistudentene; 47,7 hours in the week against 25,2.
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Police and medicine report 45 hours a week, architecture 44 hours and pharmacy 43 hours. The five utdanningstypene with the lowest professional time are all under 30 hours a week.
– Should turn up your expectations
Research and higher education, Iselin Nybø think it is for large differences in student time spent on studies.
Research and higher education, Iselin Nybø. Photo: Marte Garmann Show more
– When the students of some studies using less than 30 hours a week should the study turn up the expectations of their students, so that students learn more, ” she says.
Nybø believes that the student studieinnsats is an important indicator of student learning.
– High studieinnsats is a prerequisite that students should be left with a qualitatively good learning outcomes.
the Results are important both for the students themselves, but also the universities and colleges, believes Nybø.
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This is important information that can help to initiate the measures that each student receives the maximum learning outcomes. But here, all of the joints contribute to reach the goal. The universities should go through the courses and set new requirements, create good teaching, and tasks, and the students who read at least should ask themselves if it is enough, and whether it should be so simple.
the Goal is not that everyone should read just as much, but that list should not be too low, she states.
– More than 25 hours a week is not too much to spend on a heltidsstudium. It does not mean that those students who read the fewest number of hours to be lazy, but the results may indicate that not all degree programs set high enough requirements and that there is potential for that students can learn even more through the study.
Results from the Studiebarometeret shows large differences in how much time students spend on studies. Illustration: Studiebarometeret Show more – the telltale should blink
the Author of the book “Superstudent”, Olav Schewe, is a former student at the NHH in Bergen, the University of California and the University of Oxford. He is interested in how individuals can learn more effectively and get better results by using studieteknikker.
He has seen the results from Studiebarometeret.
Olav Schewe, author of the book “Superstudent”. Photo: Private Show more
– the telltale should blink, but low time commitment can also be due to low motivation and coping. Then you should work specifically with it, not expectations.
To increase the time spent for tidsbrukens sake is the wrong end to start in, believe Schewe.
– the Goal of institutions should be to get as many people as possible to complete with a good learning and at the stipulated time. Then the time spent is only one of several factors, such as motivation, study skills, undervisningskvalitet and well-being.
Barometret also shows that a total of only 15 per cent of the students state that the meetings prepared to lecture.
According to Schewe, students gain greater benefit from the lectures of the meetings prepared. Also, often 15 or 30 minutes with preparation time be enough.
My experience is also that the textbooks can be very extensive and correspond little with the lectures. When I understand that many students choose to go to lecture first and then work on with the theme afterwards, ” he says.
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