What do students entering college think of themselves? Take the quiz and see if you know students as well as you think you do. Once again, in compiling the questions I found myself surprised and at times shocked by some of the answers.
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1. What percentage of incoming college students rate
themselves as top 10% or above average in math?
A.
34%
B.
45%
C.
62%
D.
77%
2. What percentage of incoming college students rate
themselves as top 10% or above average in leadership ability?
A.
23%
B.
37%
C.
45%
D.
61%
3. What percentage of incoming college students rate
themselves as top 10% or above average in tolerance of others with different
beliefs?
A.
16%
B.
31%
C.
57%
D.
73%
4. What percentage of incoming college students rate
themselves as top 10% or above average in emotional health?
A.
51%
B.
63%
C.
72%
D.
81%
5. What percentage of incoming college students rate
themselves as top 10% or above average in writing ability?
A.
46%
B.
55%
C.
63%
D.
71%
6. What percentage of incoming college students rate
themselves as top 10% or above average in openness in having own views
challenged?
A.
54%
B.
63%
C.
72%
D.
83%
7. What percentage of incoming college students rate
themselves as top 10% or above average in ability to work cooperatively with
diverse people?
A.
41%
B.
58%
C.
65%
D.
80%
8. What percentage of
incoming college students rate themselves as top 10% or above average in
academic ability?
A.
39%
B.
55%
C.
69%
D.
83%
9. What percent of students say they fell asleep in a class
last year?
A.
9%
B.
23%
C.
47%
D.
61%
10. What percent of students say they spend less than 1 hour
a week reading for pleasure?
A.
9%
B.
28%
C.
39%
D.
53%
11. What percent of students say they spend between 1 to 5
hours a week studying/doing homework?
A.
9%
B.
31%
C.
49%
D.
65%
12. Percentage of students who say parents make more than
$100,000 per year
A.
37%
B.
43%
C.
56%
D.
62%
13. Percentage of students who say they expect to graduate
in 4 years?
A.
59%
B.
68%
C.
74%
D.
87%
14. What is the current % of students earning a degree in 4
years?
A.
40%
B.
50%
C.
65%
D.
73%
Answers to Quiz 3
1. B
2. C
3. C
4. C
5. D
6. C
7. A
8. B
9. D
10. A
11. B
12. D
13. B
14. D
15. B
Each week, in The Chronicle of Higher Ed or Inside Higher Ed
stories or opinion pieces focus on the importance of ensuring that students who
go to college learn to interact with people different from themselves. The
increasingly global nature of education and the mix of races and economic
classes comprise just a few of the reasons put forward by schools to prepare
students for the real world.
Currently, there are also many stories about the decline in
liberal arts and the necessity of teaching the skills necessary to well on the
job market and life.
The education quiz today largely focuses on what the new
group of enrolling students perceive are their strengths and weaknesses.
Whether the students themselves are the best judges of their skills and
abilities is an important question.
What do students think they are good at? Where do they
perceive weaknesses? Should these responses be used in making educational
policy? Why or why not?
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