Information literacy of U.S. and Indian engineering undergraduates

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Table 1 Mean times for academic activities for U.S. ( N = 410) and Indian ( N = 313) engineering students

On average, each day I spend an average of ___ minutes	U.S.^a	Indian	p-value^b
Doing homework	122.48	44.14	.001
Reading textbooks for my classes	36.68	42.28	.029
Reading other printed materials for my classes (e.g., novels, handouts)	19.86	32.26	.001
Answering assigned questions from the textbook	68.13	22.44	.001
Writing papers for my classes	16.89	14.26	.079
Working on projects for my classes	31.81	32.28	.284

^aU.S. data adapted from Taraban (2011). ^b p-values (two-sided) based on Mann–Whitney U test for differences between mean ranks. Significant values are bolded.