[ALCTS-acqnet] Primary Research Group Inc. has published the: Survey of American College Students: Use of Textbooks & Open Access Educational Materials, ISBN 978-1-57440-522-4

Primary Research Group Inc. has published the:  Survey of American College
Students: Use of Textbooks & Open Access Educational Materials, ISBN 978-1-
57440-522-4

This report, based on a survey of 1,065 students at 4-year colleges in the
United States, presents detailed data on how much students spend on textbooks,
how often they buy and how often they rent.  In addition, the study looks at
who and how often students take classes that provide open access or other low-
cost materials and which students forego the purchase or rent of textbooks,
even when required.  The report also looks at the popularity of used vs new
textbooks, and at how satisfied college students are with the current
circumstances in textbook pricing and availability.  The report also looks at
student reaction to textbook licensing plans by academic libraries.

Data in the report is presented in the aggregate and then broken out
separately for sixteen different variables including but not limited to:
college grades, gender, income level, year of college standing, SAT/ACT
scores, regional origin, age, sexual orientation, race & ethnicity, college
major and other personal variables, and by Carnegie class, enrollment size and
public/private status of the survey participants institutions of higher
education.

Just a few of this 89-page report’s many findings are that:

•	Mean spending in the most recent semester for textbooks by students in
the sample was $223.38 with a median of $200 and a range of 0 to $1,500.

•	The higher the family income of the student, the greater the number of
new vs used textbooks they purchased. Those with family incomes of less than
$45,000 purchased a mean of 1.25 new textbooks in the past semester while
those from families with annual incomes of greater than $150,000 purchased
1.83 new textbooks per semester.

•	Students who grew up in major cities were much more likely than those
who grew up in rural areas to take classes that use open access or very low-
cost materials.

•	The most secular students were much more dissatisfied with current
textbook prices than were the most religious students.

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