Suprising things in Japanese universities
Here’s another quick but fun survey from goo Ranking for your Sunday enjoyment; what did you find surprising when you entered further education.
Demographics
Over the 21st and 22nd of February 2008 1,052 people from the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.7% were female, 6.4% in their teens, 15.7% in their twenties, 31.0% in their thirties, 26.6% in their forties, 11.2% in their fifties, and 9.1% aged sixty or over. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.
When I started uni in Scotland, I think the most surprising thing I realised was that women… I’d better not finish that one as my wife and mother read my blog!
Ranking results
Q: What did you find suprising when you entered further education? (Sample size=1,052)
Rank Score 1 Open book exams 100 2 There were days I didn’t need to go to classes 98.2 3 Lectures were half-hearted, vague 89.3 4 People much older/younger in the same class 76.8 5 Textbooks, dictionaries, were expensive 69.6 6 Long lectures 67.9 7 Aggressive touting for clubs 66.1 8 Lots of different accents, dialects 55.4 9 Could choose what one wants to learn 55.4 10 Couldn’t understand other class members 51.8 11 Lots of people faking roll call for others 44.6 12 Large classes 37.5 13 Books available on the high street were sometimes used as textbooks 37.5 14 Could take calculators to exams 33.9 15= Campus shop sold electrical goods, furniture 30.4 15= Many campuses 30.4 17 Large-scale campus 28.6 18= Were compulsory subject 25.0 18= New student welcome party 25.0 20 Easy to increase number of friends of the opposite sex 23.2
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Anne C said,
May 5, 2008 @ 23:10
don’t forget your little sister!
Charles Jannuzi said,
May 10, 2008 @ 13:21
Open book exams surprising? Well, it’s one way to get students to open the textbooks–especially for ‘general education’ courses, where it is hard to get many students to stay awake in class.
Charles Jannuzi said,
May 10, 2008 @ 13:31
It’s a bit of a struggle interpreting these results–if only the sample had been limited to people who just entered university this year. That doesn’t seem to be the case, since it is rather hard to believe that, even with an increase in continuing education students, over 50% of students are 30 years or older.
pinky st said,
May 11, 2008 @ 22:50
Things students find surprising when first going to University - “There were days when I didn’t need to go to classes”
Things students find surprising 6 months after being at University “There were days when I DID need to go to classes!”