Don the new 2-page chapter overviews encourage students to skip reading the actual chapters?
Apparently not. During the 2001-2002 academic year, students at Pomona College read units with the old-style summaries and units with the new 2-page overviews. I asked them to fill out an anonymous questionnaire about various features of the texts. While there was not universal agreement, the majority of students preferred the 2-page overview to the old-style summaries (some quite emphatically), particularly when the overviews were reasonably short (all of the final overviews are less than 860 words long). However, virtually no one reported (when directly asked) that they read the overviews instead of reading the chapter: a number in fact commented that reading the chapter was still essential to being able to do the homework. Return to the top.
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- Don the new 2-page chapter overviews encourage students to skip reading the actual chapters?
