Test Finds College Graduates Lack Skills for White-Collar Jobs
21st January 2015
Those must be the kids getting a Real Liberal Arts Degree.
The test, which was administered at 169 colleges and universities in 2013 and 2014 and released Thursday, reveals broad variation in the intellectual development of the nation’s students depending on the type and even location of the school they attend.
On average, students make strides in their ability to reason, but because so many start at such a deficit, many still graduate without the ability to read a scatterplot, construct a cohesive argument or identify a logical fallacy.
January 21st, 2015 at 12:35
I don’t think it’s confined to the R.L.A.D. I see a lot of young engineers who are shocked to find that the answers aren’t in the back of the book.
All college students should be required to attend a Business 101 class that consists primarily of studying “Dilbert” cartoons. In order to pass they simply need to understand that Dilbert is not fiction.