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5.6hours per week
In the national faculty survey that von Hippel and von Hippel (2015) quote, public four-year colleges spend an average of 5.6 hours per week on research and scholarly writing during teaching semesters.
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In the source's own words
“a survey [12] of 23,824 ... faculty at public universities, private universities, public ... spend an average of 10.7, 14.5, 5.6, and 5.7 hours per week on research and scholarly writing during the teaching semesters, respectively”
To Apply or Not to Apply: A Survey Analysis of Grant Writing Costs and Benefits, Ted von Hippel and Courtney von Hippel, PLOS ONE, 2015, Results, paragraph comparing grant-writing hours with the national faculty survey.
Open the original (DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0118494)- What it measures
- The authors compare their grant-writing hours with a national survey of faculty (reference 12 of the paper, the 2010 to 2011 HERI Faculty Survey by Hurtado et al., 2012). The figure is faculty's self-reported time on research and scholarly writing during teaching semesters; the authors did not measure it.
- What it does not show
- Self-reported, and only during teaching semesters. The quoted sentence gives the survey size but not its name, year or country; those come from the paper's reference list. Research and scholarly writing covers papers and grants, not email or messaging.
In the data
A row of How Much Time People Spend Writing and Typing at Work, as von Hippel 2015, public 4-yr colleges: 5.6 hours per week.
- Activity
- Writing documents
- Who
- Full-time faculty, public four-year colleges
- How measured
- Self-reported survey
- People
- 23824
Source
Used to calculate
- In the time spent writing, typing and on email dataset, the 5 published figures for “Writing documents” have a median of 10.7 hours per week, ranging from 5.6 to 20.4.
- The time spent writing, typing and on email dataset holds 16 data points, each a published figure traced to its source.
- The time spent writing, typing and on email dataset draws on 9 distinct sources.