On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:11:37 -0800, Christopher Green wrote: >Time was that I would give history of psychology students a map test of >European countries. On average, they got a little over 4 -- usually UK, France, >Italy, and whatever country their ancestors came from. It got so depressing >that I stopped. It seems I was expecting way too much. This sociology professor >finds that her students can't even name continents. Sigh. > http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2013/01/14/nl-students-dont-know-geography-115.html
Leaving aside issues of unrepresentative sampling and other confounds, let me ask a basic question: Aren't you Canadians supposed to be following something like this curriculum: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/elementary/sstudies18curr.pdf If you do follow such a curriculum, does everyone fail? Or, if they fail, they're still given a passing grade for showing up? On a related note, does the Canadian school system believe in "social promotion"? In NY state there is a comparable curriculum which is supposed to prepare one for regents exams in high school; see: http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/pub/sscore2.pdf and http://eservices.nysed.gov/vls/subjectAreaHome.do;jsessionid=1db93489d1c66494182f794b7ea6f31c1670abaf131d976cc20600d04ce87777.e34Tc3mPbx0Sby0Lbh0MaN8Mchv0?lmid=15 and http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/pub/ssovervi.pdf I'd bet the home schooled kids might be pretty good at geography, depending upon what kind of curriculum the parents follow (e.g., http://www.home-school-curriculum.com/category/world-geography ). If home schooling is good enough for Marty Seligman's kids... ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=23078 or send a blank email to leave-23078-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
