This paper includes a general description of the plan for investigating student work loads and gives details of the 2 studies conducted at Monash University concerning work loads in 1972. (Editor)

The survey of about 1,000 students at a Hong Kong University found a decrease in students' use of a deep approach to study and an increased tendency to adopt a surface approach between their first and final years. Intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation, surface demands, workload, and teaching style are given as possible explanations. (Author/MLW)

Research on student learning was synthesized to establish the association between context-dependent study "orchestrations" and learning outcome, and between "deep" perceptions of learning context and learning outcome. It was concluded that academic success is associated with well-defined meaning orchestration and a holistic perception of learning…