Textbook Reading

How many textbooks, outside of class, have you studied?

1
2 - 4
5 +

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How many of these textbooks were for the purposes self-teaching?

0
1
2 - 4
5 +

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How many of these textbooks were for the purposes of review?

A professor reviewing a potential textbook for his students, for example

0
1
2 - 4
5 +

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Consider the textbook that took you the longest or was the most difficult. Was it for self-teaching or review?

Self-Teaching
Review

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Was it a Mathematics book, Physics, or something else?

Mathematics
Physics
Other:

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At the time, did you consider this textbook a higher-level or lower-level textbook?

A student wanting to better structure their Algebra skills might consider the textbook lower-level, while a student wanting to teach him/herself differential geometry might consider it higher-level. It's purely up to you

Higher-Level
Lower-Level
I didn't consider it at the time
It's not really applicable

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Chapter-wise, did you work through it cover-to-cover, or skip around?

Cover to cover
Skipped around

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If you skipped around, what was your basis for what chapters you skipped and what chapters you read through?

Maybe you really knew the material you skipped, maybe you weren't interested in it, or maybe you approached the book differently than the order of chapters. Anything works.

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Exercise-wise, did you do every exercise in a chapter, or skip around?

Every exercise
Skipped around
The book didn't have exercises

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If you skipped around, what was your basis for what exercises you skipped and what exercises you worked out?

Maybe the exercises you skipped were trivial, or you only did the ones whose answers were in the back of the book

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On average, how long would you say it took to complete a chapter (including any exercises you did)?

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How long was the period of time in between your beginning the book, and your deciding you were finished with it?

Please include if you finished the book because it was unsatisfactory or too difficult

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Consider the textbook that took you the shortest amount of time or was the easiest. Was it for self-teaching or review?

Self-Teaching
Review

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Was it a Mathematics book, Physics, or something else?

Mathematics
Physics
Other:

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At the time, did you consider this textbook a higher-level or lower-level textbook?

Higher-Level
Lower-Level
I didn't consider it at the time
It's not really applicable

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Chapter-wise, did you work through it cover-to-cover, or skip around?

Cover to cover
Skipped around

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If you skipped around, what was your basis for what chapters you skipped and what chapters you read through?

Maybe you really knew the material you skipped, maybe you weren't interested in it, or maybe you approached the book differently than the order of chapters. Anything works.

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Exercise-wise, did you do every exercise in a chapter, or skip around?

Every exercise
Skipped around
The book didn't have exercises

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If you skipped around, what was your basis for what exercises you skipped and what exercises you worked out?

This is a required question

On average, how long would you say it took to complete a chapter (including any exercises you did)?

This is a required question

How long was the period of time in between your beginning the book, and your deciding you were finished with it?

Please include if you finished the book because it was unsatisfactory or too difficult

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Is this a reasonable purpose for a survey, or an inefficient use of time that could be spent actually going through a textbook?

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