tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post4302940387998424900..comments2024-03-27T15:44:43.564-08:00Comments on What Do I Know?: Only 24% of college graduates know the First Amendment prohibits establishing an official religion for the United States.Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-13702570289355276712011-12-19T00:21:16.918-09:002011-12-19T00:21:16.918-09:00I got 78.79%. I'm a 47 yr. old white female w...I got 78.79%. I'm a 47 yr. old white female who dabbled a bit in college but dropped out. I have not taken any Economics or Social Studies classes since 1981.<br /><br />I thought that a lot of the questions were odd, and that the test in general did not represent a good general background in Civics.<br /><br />I also think that they're lying about the test scores of "college educators". If you made it to college professorship level, you are a "good test taker", and this was a multiple choice test, so pretty dang easy to get a B or C on.<br /><br />I had to laugh, as two of the colleges that my science major daughter are considering are on the "Train Wreck" list. <br /><br />I will advise her to consult the "Exceptional" list when deciding NOT to date someone.<br /><br />Interestingly, a few years ago someone put out a similar internet test on Religion, and as an atheist, I got a much higher score on it than the average Christian. And a lot of it was pure Christian bible reading info. Makes you wonder where most Christians get their actual facts (beliefs) from.akbatgirlynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-42476013965948482292011-12-18T17:52:15.716-09:002011-12-18T17:52:15.716-09:00I only got a 75.78% The question about the power t...I only got a 75.78% The question about the power to declare war is a little last week aint it. At 55 years with but a HS edjumication.AKjahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002915509772302920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-12860601169178726952011-12-18T15:06:14.341-09:002011-12-18T15:06:14.341-09:00I got 84.85 %. I'm a 60 year old female, high ...I got 84.85 %. I'm a 60 year old female, high school graduate, no college. I didn't learn much of this material in school, or remember what I did learn from that long ago. I attribute my grade to a life long love of reading. I learned a lot of history (American & World) during my child rearing days by reading well researched and well written historical fiction. Since the kids have been gone, I've thrown myself into all kinds of non-fiction - religion, anti-religion, politics, science, some economics.<br />I agree with the comment about the economics questions - they didn't belong here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-8367225523942676562011-12-18T12:36:19.448-09:002011-12-18T12:36:19.448-09:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jacob Dugan-Brausehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06287631724339961459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-31967705136497751222011-12-18T11:59:02.158-09:002011-12-18T11:59:02.158-09:00It is interesting that you mention politics becaus...It is interesting that you mention politics because I don't think in Hungary universities are influenced by politics. Sometimes some people want to give this impression but I don't think I have been (or I haven't realised) that I was influenced this way.<br /><br />My result is 60,61% (20/33) but I couldn't answer questions concerning your constitution and US stuff, only general things.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-75143582623810128132011-12-18T10:14:37.501-09:002011-12-18T10:14:37.501-09:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jacob Dugan-Brausehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06287631724339961459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-6792604680412657662011-12-18T09:01:57.873-09:002011-12-18T09:01:57.873-09:00Ijust took the test:
You answered 28 out of 33 co...Ijust took the test:<br /><br />You answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85 %<br /><br />I am a 68 white female with 2 years of collage. I did better than I thought I would do as I expected to have forgotten things learned so long ago.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-63494974202053761812011-12-18T08:52:39.182-09:002011-12-18T08:52:39.182-09:00I scored 93.94% on the test (31/33.) I'm a re...I scored 93.94% on the test (31/33.) I'm a retired high school social studies teacher, and I noted that there is quite a bit of economic theory on this test. Economics is usually no a part of civics. In most high schools, civics and economics are separate courses.majiinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-6470930135514088832011-12-18T06:12:33.606-09:002011-12-18T06:12:33.606-09:00Agh! This post generates so many lines of thought ...Agh! This post generates so many lines of thought for me I can hardly tease a specific thread out to talk about.<br />One strand which presents itself is thinking about my own "so, what?" response after finding this so-called civics test a year or so ago. I got an A on it but kept wondering all the way through what so many of the questions had to do with civics literacy, within a meaningful notion of being literate or knowledgable about civics.<br />I wasn't engaged enough to track down and flesh out the who and what the outfit ISI was/is but am not terribly surprised at what you found out.<br />My parents were teachers, good ones, the type students continually contacted years later and thanked for opening up some piece(s) of the world for them. I grew up surrounded by discussions of how differently different groups of kids learn, what might be said to constitute proficiency, understanding, and knowledge , and how to help kids assemble and learn to use a set of tools which combined a basic, yet comprehensive, grasp of facts with skills to make decisions /judgements about those facts.<br />I remember Dad being horrified when the "back to basics" movement started in local school districts (late 60s- early 70s? )- the tack then was to yab on endlessly about useless courses in basket weaving and demand only core courses like reading, writing , and math be taught. The problem was, of course, that the BtB crowd also wanted to gut reading and writing curriculums of materials they deemed useless or subversive to their status quo and science curriculums of ideas which rattled their worldview.<br />The attack on post secondary education in the last forever years has always seemed like an extension of the BtB thingy to me. <br />This "civics test" should maybe shake up our notions of how well we teach ourselves and our kids about how we organize ourselves publically but the conclusions ISI draws from it are suspect to me. Too many uninspected and shaky assumptions about what a good education can be said to be in the material you found to be for this test to be accepted as a real measure of civics literacy . Too many, way too many.alaskapihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11900235733791874046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-18128758901286420502011-12-18T05:34:12.299-09:002011-12-18T05:34:12.299-09:0069 year-old high school graduate here plus two yea...69 year-old high school graduate here plus two years of community college (at age 49), fifty years of real-life experience.<br /><br />My score: 78.79%.<br /><br />In my mind, the reason for the high score is not necessarily because I am smarter, but I believe that I went to school during eras when a combination of good teachers and more motivated students was generally the rule. I also am a life-long newspaper reader which certainly added to my knowledge base.<br /><br />I think it might be interesting to compare the scoring of this test with something comparable that would have been given somewhere between 1955-1965.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com