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Call to publish scientific articles that will be received between June 20 and November 20, 2019, referring to:

University Pedagogy: With topics such as public policies in higher education, legislative system and reforms, academic programs, comparative policies, massification processes, quality assurance, legal professions, and others in higher education as a general field, referring to the Chilean and international context .

Didactics of Law: With topics whose centrality is related to processes of innovation, learning, curriculum, innovations, teaching experiences, students and teachers characterization , among others in legal education in the Chilean and international context.

Ethical and citation standards (Chicago-deusto) must be taken care of, in addition to the originality of the research or innovation.

Remote measurement of the reading rate in law students: A contribution to the academic workload rationalization

Authors

Abstract

This work collects data about reading speed of Law students and thus contributes to the academic work load distribution rationalization, within the framework of a credit-per-subject system. In order to achieve this, an empirical study of reading speed was carried out with two hundred students, using new technologies. The results show that the 2020 cohort reads at an average of 177.91 words per minute with an adjusted reading comprehension of 64.38% and the upper classes read at an average reading speed of 227.5 words per minute with an adjusted comprehension of 79.49%. In consequence, it can be stated that 90% of the 2020 cohort reads between 109 and 265 words per minute of the analyzed text and that the same percentage of the higher cohorts reads between 109 and 391 words per minute of the other analyzed text.

Keywords:

Reading rate, credits, academic workload, reading comprehension, law teaching

Author Biographies

Guillermo Caballero Germain, Universidad de Chile

Abogado. Doctor en Derecho Universidad Autónoma de Madrid y profesor asistente de Derecho Comercial de la Universidad de Chile. Su correo electrónico es gcaballero@derecho.uchile.cl

Flavia Carbonell Bellolio, Universidad de Chile

Abogada. Doctora en Derecho Universidad Carlos III de Madrid y profesora asociada de Derecho Procesal de la Universidad de Chile. Su correo electrónico es fcarbonell@derecho.uchile.cl

Julián López Masle, Facultad de Derecho - Universidad de Chile

Abogado. LL.M Universidad de Harvard y profesor asociado de Derecho Procesal de la Universidad de Chile. Su correo electrónico es jlopez@derecho.uchile.cl

Tania Villarroel Oyarzún, Universidad de Chile

Abogada. LL.M Universidad de Columbia y profesora asistente de Derecho Civil de la Universidad de Chile. Su correo electrónico es tvillarroel@derecho.uchile.cl