Time Measurement and Student Perception of Time. What Student Workload Analysis does (not) tell

The feasibility of study programmes, mainly understood as relation of designed study courses and students’ actual time budgets, is inquired by so called “student workload analysis”. The most widely spread method for the measurement of student workload consists of counting the quantity of assigned tasks and respective time-frames. However, this approach neglects students’ individual necessities. The article discusses results of a project in which measurement of the actual students’ use of time and its impact on the gross workload have been surveyed.

10.08.2011 | Antje Oppermann (Potsdam)