Accepted Type
Dedicated Poster
Code
LP4 - 07
Acceptance Declaration
Accept
Additional Information
I declare I have no actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this program.
Was this work accepted for CCME 2020?
no
Category
General Call (Workshop, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation)
Type
Poster
Sub Type
Education Research
Will the presenter be a:
Jr. Faculty (less than 5 years in practice)
Affiliation
Title
Perceived academic workload and its relationship between the real and declared academic workload
Length of Presentation
Background/Purpose
Academic Workload (AW) is a central phenomenon in management processes of higher education institutions. Several studies show discrepancies between declared workload in course programmes and the workload students experience, also called real workload. Nevertheless, literature emphasizes students' perceptions of AW as a better measure of workload. Disclosing eventual discrepancies between these three types may help detect curricula problems threatening the quality of processes. This study sought to characterize the relationship between perceived and declared AW and between perceived and real AW of undergraduate students of University of Chile's Faculty of Medicine.
Methods
We applied a survey to 500 students and used institutional data to compare these results with the workload declared in their course programmes. To test this, descriptive statistical analysis were performed.
Results
Perceived AW shows a mean that sets the perception between adequate and high. A positive relationship was found between all three types of academic workloads. Perceived AW correlates with real AW (0.596) higher than with declared AW (0.380). Looking closely at real academic workload, non-contact hours revealed a more significant correlation with perceived AW than contact hours (0.557 and 0.475 respectively).
Conclusion
Although literature generally indicates that perceptions of workload are weakly related to real hours of work, our findings say otherwise. Furthermore, the fact that non-contact study hours are the ones that correlate the most with perceived AW, suggests the relationship between real AW and perceived AW is worthy of deeper examination. Future research should explore real AW considering which factors are negatively affecting the autonomous work.
Keyword 1
Academic Workload
Keyword 2
Student Perceptions
Level of Training
Undergraduate
Abstract Themes
Undergraduate
Curriculum
Quality improvement
Additional Theme (First choice)
Student Affairs
Additional Theme (Second Choice)
Faculty Development
Additional Theme (Third Choice)
Authors
Presenter
José Peralta
Term 1
Yes
Term 2
Yes
Term 3
Yes
Term 4
Yes
Term 5
Yes
