Academically adrift : limited learning on college campuses
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- ISBN: 9780226028569 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0226028569 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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xi, 259 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Publisher: Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press, c2011.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-248) and index. |
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Subject: | Education, Higher -- United States Learning -- United States Critical thinking -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States Reasoning -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States |
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Discusses the results and implications of a research study based on survey responses, transcript data, and the Collegiate Learning Assessment that looks at college students' improvement in critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writing skills during their first two years of study. - Blackwell Publishing
Almost everyone wants to get into college, but how much do undergraduates really learn once they're there? According to Academically Adrift, the answer for many students is not much. Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa's extensive research draws on survey responses, transcript data, and the Collegiate Learning Assessment, a standardized test administered to students in their first semester and again at the end of their second year. Arum and Roksa's analysis reveals that a significant proportion of students demonstrate no significant improvement in a range of skills including critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writing. As troubling as these findings are, Arum and Roksa argue that for many faculty and administrators they will come as no surpriseùinstead, they are the expected result of a student body distracted by socializing or employment and an institutional culture that puts undergraduate learning close to the bottom of the priority list. - Chicago Distribution Center
In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelorâs degree is now required for entry into a growing number of professions. And some parents begin planning for the expense of sending their kids to college when theyâre born. Almost everyone strives to go, but almost no one asks the fundamental question posed by Academically Adrift: are undergraduates really learning anything once they get there?
For a large proportion of students, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksaâs answer to that question is a definitive no. Their extensive research draws on survey responses, transcript data, and, for the first time, the state-of-the-art Collegiate Learning Assessment, a standardized test administered to students in their first semester and then again at the end of their second year. According to their analysis of more than 2,300 undergraduates at twenty-four institutions, 45 percent of these students demonstrate no significant improvement in a range of skillsâincluding critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writingâduring their first two years of college. As troubling as their findings are, Arum and Roksa argue that for many faculty and administrators they will come as no surpriseâinstead, they are the expected result of a student body distracted by socializing or working and an institutional culture that puts undergraduate learning close to the bottom of the priority list.
Academically Adrift holds sobering lessons for students, faculty, administrators, policy makers, and parentsâall of whom are implicated in promoting or at least ignoring contemporary campus culture. Higher education faces crises on a number of fronts, but Arum and Roksaâs report that colleges are failing at their most basic mission will demand the attention of us all.