Students at U-M are slightly below the national average when it comes to knowledge of American history and civics according to a new test by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI). Students at fifty schools around the country took a sixty question quiz that asks questions about history, political philosophy, and the development of the US government.
Out of the fifty schools, U-M ranked 25th in valued added, as measured by the difference in performance between freshman and senior students. As the Ann Arbor News explains, U-M seniors correctly answered 51 precent of the questions and freshman answered 47 percent correctly, this compares to national averages of 54 and 50 percent, for seniors and freshman respectively.
The study, Failing our Students, Failing America, criticizes universities policies for educating students on civics. In a press release the group concludes, “If parents and students believe a college education ought to increase a student’s knowledge of America, then clearly they are not getting their money’s worth from most schools in the survey.”
The sixty question quiz can be found here.
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Hey, just for comparison, I missed two, getting a 96.5%
Both misses were brain farts: misreading the one on free markets and the one on Federal Reserve bond-purchasing effects. Yeah, notice the irony of a senior Economics major missing two entry level econ questions.
If ISI’s point is that every college student should know American history well, then I agree with their mission. However, their methodology might not be perfect. If you’re testing engineering or music students on their knowledge of American history, you’ll probably get some bad results. I’m sure that if the study was relegated to students in the liberal arts school, you’d have much better results. Unless the university imposes an American history requirement on all students, which would be stupid because students should have options and the group requirement system works well, then you’ll have plenty of students who are not exposed to any history, let alone American history (which is taught at a pretty comprehensive level in most high schools, though).
Now, this is all to their great advantage; History is one of the most important fields, and the UM History Department is exemplary.
As to the notion of American history, the fact is there is very little of it, and it is not as interesting as other fields of history, in my opinion.
I meant to say “disadvantage” in my second paragraph above.
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