University education is not enough with only lectures in order to achieve its educational goals. University is, by definition, a place where inividual academic researches and studies of professors and students are to take place. For this purpose, univ...
University education is not enough with only lectures in order to achieve its educational goals. University is, by definition, a place where inividual academic researches and studies of professors and students are to take place. For this purpose, university students are required to do various kinds of home work, individual study, and report writing.
This study tries to investigate the types and amount of individual learning tasks which is provided to the students of Inchon National Teachers University. There are various kinds of individual learning tasks : reading books, finding material, observation and experimentation, skill practice, and report writing.
As the results of the study, we can find that :
(1) Students are required to take more or less than 10 courses in a semester and every course require 2 or 3 reports.
(2) Many students feel that the amount of individual tasks are too heavy to solve within the given time. Especially, the most heavy amount of tasks are given during the third year of university curriculum.
(3) Most of the students think that individual study tasks are necessary for university education. But they hope the tasks should be inquiry-oriented rather than memory or mechanical work-oriented.
(4) Students want to have a space like Curriculum Material Preparation Area(CMPA) in order to make individual learning tasks.