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Discuss “Survey proposes degrees may”

We may log more hours in computer clusters than students at most other schools. But do we actually learn more than they do?

A recently completed study of the interaction between students, schools, and learning seems to say no.

The research, published in the book How College Affects Students, details a 30-year study of college students and what they actually learn at school. Part of the findings show that students who attend college have a wider range of intellectual experiences and better cognition than those students who do not continue on to higher education.

But what the findings don?t show are differences in how much students learn from school to school. That means, according to the research done by Ernest Pascarella and Patrick Terenzini,...

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