New Challenges in Legal Education: Developing an Appropriate Response to the Issue of Student Workload

Abstract

Recent research by Herbert Marsh makes a further important distinction in the qualitative understanding of student workload. 23 Marsh distinguishes between two forms of heavy workload, that is, 'good-heavy' and 'bad-heavy' workload. Marsh shows that overall student satisfaction with teaching is at its highest, not when 'useful workload' is at the absolute minimum, but when it is slightly above the