How much reading was assigned in your high school history ...



Take-Home Survey [Selected Comments from Students, Spring 2007]

1) Not a lot [of reading]. We hardly ever used the books unless in class. Maybe 2-3 pages a week of that. The tests were all multiple choice. We almost never had an essay, not even on finals. All I would do was re-read my notes and try to memorize everything. It only worked for a short amount of time.

2) We hardly ever wrote. Sometimes we’d take notes from the teacher or from movies. We never wrote big essays… We always got stuck with busy work to keep us quite.

3) My history classes consisted of doing packets. It would have been negative, because I didn’t retain any of the information. I would look up the information I needed to answer the question, then forget it all after the test.

4) In high school I usually got a list of people and events to memorize. Most of the classes involved the copying of notes from the overhead and left little time for discussion… I did not have many writing assignments. Usually we had worksheets to fill in with a couple short answer questions.

5) Another [teacher] was a study hall/baseball coach. He taught the class straight out of the textbook (American History). He understood what we did.

6) US History my teacher thought his coaching football and basketball was more important. So I really learned about sports and less about US history… I remember doing one history essay over a movie that dealt w/ WWII.

7) The tests were all multiple choice. The teacher gave us multiple-choice homework with the exact questions in different order. I did not do the homework and studied for the test by memorizing someone else’s homework just previous. All my writing was done in English class.

8) My teachers were never enthusiastic and we watched a lot of war films. Less than 10 pages a week [of assigned reading]. We copied down a lot of notes…. We were given a study guide containing all that we needed to know.

9) To be honest my world history teacher was a football coach & athletic director so he’d basically put in a movie for us to watch while he either did paperwork or talked on the phone.

10) In high school I didn’t have any good experiences, because our history teacher was the boys basketball coach… The tests were multiple choice. I studied by the information given to us that told us what was going to be on the test. We didn’t do much writing at all…

11) My U.S. History class wasn’t very informative, because our teacher barely taught. She had her student teacher teach us the whole time… We were never assigned reading, they let us choose to do so.

12) Most of those [history classes] were pointless the teachers never really got into it and made it interesting…. Never did writing assignment, we did fill in the blank questions which came word for word from our reading.

13) Hardly any [reading was assigned] because the teachers read straight from the book and lectured that way. [Assignments] were: matching, fill in the blank, and multiple choice. Very little essay questions. I studied before class started. Most were fill in the blanks. There wasn’t much writing.

14) The teacher I had was new. It was her first year of teaching and she really didn’t know what she was talking about, she pretty much just read out of the book.

15) I feel like I was short changed [in high school] due to their method of testing. I never really had to learn anything. I just had to memorize things, and that doesn’t teach me anything.

16) Allmost always the exams or test were multiple choice and usually I did not study for them but right befor the test to refresh my memory. There was not much writing, mainly just class discussions on the reading assigned.

17) I studied from study guides which my teacher handed out… There really wasn’t ever much writing…

18) The one history class I really remember was a negative experience. The teacher was also the basketball and football coach so that is all he worried about.

19) There were no essays and we got all answers to tests the day before…. We would look at notes that the teacher provided and fill out the study guide then study that for the exam… We would write a paragraph or two when we would watch films in class, but no take home essay assignments.

20) I just remember that the class didn’t interest me or hold my attention (our teacher was a football coach!)

21) [History classes in high school] were not that informative but I think it was due to the teacher. Nobody took the class seriously. We watched the Daily Show every day… [We had] multiple choice tests—I didn’t really have to study.

22) Our high school academic program was quite a joke. I couldn’t tell you one thing we studied except for the group projects we did on the election? [we were assigned] 5 pages per week maybe. [Exams] were all multiple choice & w/ a partner or group.

23) In high school, for history I really didn’t study for the test cause it was all common sence. Plus, it was way to easy on that test.

24) I don’t remember doing a lot of writing…. I didn’t have to write a lot of essays. Maybe four in all my high school career.

25) They were really negative cuz I really didn’t learn anything… We really didn’t have any assignments.

26) [Exams were] mostly multiple choice. I didn’t study, didn’t need to.

27) I memorized a lot, but don’t remember much so I guess I would say I didn’t learn much… not much reading assigned, maybe 3 pages a week.

28) One class I have completed consisted of nothing but multiple choice tests. I can now recall very little of that information. However, I can recall 90 percent of my history class which consisted of five short essay tests.

29) I crammed the night before. No essays. We had worksheets to match answers in the book with the questions.

30) I did study guides before the tests. These were all that would be on the test. I basically studied the study guide… My assignments were all study guides and multiple choice questions.

31) Rather negative, mostly just goofing around. Multiple choice memorization not much actual studying. No writing what so ever.

32) High school students are very lazy and memorizing material just to mix and match on tests does not justify that they actually know the material.

33) Some students don’t study for a test and knowing it’s multiple choice can choose the best answer and gain nothing from the class.

34) I know I study less if I know a test will be multiple-choice because all I really have to look for are a few key words to get the right answer. It makes it easy to study and easy to get a passing grade, but it also makes the information easy to forget and hard to relate to anything else…

35) I know from personal experience that when you are required to explain an answer on a test, you pay attention better in class, take better notes, participate, and study harder because you know that material must be understood well enough to re-teach it.

How much reading was assigned in your high school history classes? (pages per week)

Don’t remember, if there was I wouldn’t do it anyway, but now I would.

Hardly any because the teachers read straight from the book and lectured that way.

We were never assigned reading, they let us choose to do so

There wasn’t really any reading assigned

Not much was assigned maybe 5 to 10 pages a week

In class reading.

None

None

Not much reading was assigned

We had very little [reading] in my American West class. 10 pg/wk. Absolutely none in my US Agrarian History.

Very little

Around 5-6 pages a week

5-10 pages a week

Not very much at all pry 5-10 page maximum

Less than 5 pages per week

3-5 pages a week

Less than 10 pages a week, we copied down a lot of notes

10 pages per week.

10 pages per week.

10 pgs a week. Not a lot

Not much, maybe 10-15 and a lot of the time we had class time to read it.

Maybe 15 pages

10-15 pages per week

10-15 per week

10 to 15 pages

Maybe 10 to 20 pages a week

A lot. 10 to 30 pages

0 -10 pages

10

10 pages

10 pages

about 15

15 to 20 pages

15 to 24 pages

10-20 pages

Less than 20 pages a week

about 15 pages per week

20 pages a week

20 to 25 pages

Not much, not even 20 pages

20 pages at most

20-25 pages in school texts

20 to 30

20 to 30 at most

20-30 pages per week

20 to 30 pages (about 1 chapter per week)

20-30 pages/week

20-30 or a really drab book that could put anyone to sleep, but we were given an entire week so they were not too stressful.

25-30 pages a week

25 to 30 pages per week

25 to 30

20 pages per week

About 20 pages

25 to 50 per weed

30 to 50

30 pages

40 pages

Maybe about 30 pages at most

Probably 30 pages a week

10 to 30 pages a week

15 to 30 pages week

20 to 60 pages

30 to 40

30 to 40 pages (chapter a week)

40 pages a week

Minimum 30 pages/week average about 40-50

50-60 pages a week

50 to a 100 a week (a chapter)

50 to 100

40 to 100 pages

A LOT! I estimate about 50-75 pages

Lots! Approximately 75/wk

100-150 a week

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