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Remote measurement of the reading rate in law students: A contribution to the academic workload rationalization

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Vol. 8 No. 2 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5885.2021.64735
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Abstract

This work collects data about reading speed of Law students and thus contributes to the academic work load distribution rationalization, within the framework of a credit-per-subject system. In order to achieve this, an empirical study of reading speed was carried out with two hundred students, using new technologies. The results show that the 2020 cohort reads at an average of 177.91 words per minute with an adjusted reading comprehension of 64.38% and the upper classes read at an average reading speed of 227.5 words per minute with an adjusted comprehension of 79.49%. In consequence, it can be stated that 90% of the 2020 cohort reads between 109 and 265 words per minute of the analyzed text and that the same percentage of the higher cohorts reads between 109 and 391 words per minute of the other analyzed text.

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Reading rate , credits , academic workload , reading comprehension , law teaching

Author Biographies

Guillermo Caballero Germain, Universidad de Chile

Abogado. Doctor en Derecho Universidad Autónoma de Madrid y profesor asistente de Derecho Comercial de la Universidad de Chile. Su correo electrónico es gcaballero@derecho.uchile.cl

Flavia Carbonell Bellolio, Universidad de Chile

Abogada. Doctora en Derecho Universidad Carlos III de Madrid y profesora asociada de Derecho Procesal de la Universidad de Chile. Su correo electrónico es fcarbonell@derecho.uchile.cl

Julián López Masle, Facultad de Derecho - Universidad de Chile

Abogado. LL.M Universidad de Harvard y profesor asociado de Derecho Procesal de la Universidad de Chile. Su correo electrónico es jlopez@derecho.uchile.cl

Tania Villarroel Oyarzún, Universidad de Chile

Abogada. LL.M Universidad de Columbia y profesora asistente de Derecho Civil de la Universidad de Chile. Su correo electrónico es tvillarroel@derecho.uchile.cl

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Caballero Germain, G., Carbonell Bellolio, F., López Masle, J., & Villarroel Oyarzún, T. (2021). Remote measurement of the reading rate in law students: A contribution to the academic workload rationalization. Revista Pedagogía Universitaria Y Didáctica Del Derecho, 8(2), pp. 193–212. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5885.2021.64735
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