Article: Do the low levels of reading course material continue? An examination in a forensic psychology graduate program.(Report)

Clump, Bauer, and Bradley (2004) and Burchfield and Sappington (2000) previously found extremely low levels of reading in undergraduate psychology courses. The current study investigated whether these low levels of reading are also found with graduate students, or if this value is altered by only investigating individuals who show continued interest in higher education. As a result, we assessed the reading levels of students in graduate Forensic Psychology courses. Across the six courses from which data were collected, 193 usable responses to the Textbook Reading in this Course (The Teaching Professor, 2001) and 4 questions from previous research by Solomon (1979) were ...

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