Americans Fail a Basic Test on Their History and Institutions
Our Fading Heritage: Americans Fail a Basic Test on Their History and Institutions is the third major study conducted by ISI on the kind of knowledge required for informed citizenship. In 2006 and 2007, ISI published the first ever scientific surveys of civic learning among college students. Each year, approximately 14,000 freshmen and seniors at 50 schools nationwide were given a 60-question, multiple-choice exam on basic knowledge of America’s heritage. Both years, the students failed. The average freshman scored 51.7% the first year and 51.4% the next. The average senior scored 53.2%, then 54.2%. After all the time, effort, and money spent on college, students emerge no better off in understanding the fundamental features of American self-government.
http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/2008/summary_summary.html
32 out of 33. Sadly the
32 out of 33.
Sadly the question I got wrong was on monetary policy. I think it was worded poorly but that might just be sour grapes.
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"Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered." -- Cicero
"Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered." -- Cicero
You answered 30 out of 33
You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %
I got the Puritans one wrong, lol
I coulda done worse
Sorry for duplicating the post.
Timbud answered 26 out of 33 correctly — 78.79 %
24 out of 33 or 72.72%.
24 out of 33 or 72.72%. Considering the fact I was still half asleep, it's still good.
90.91%
and I dropped out of 9th grade. Maybe too long in school makes one dumber? Or just more homogenized, regimented and clueless?
81.8%
But for those of you with test anxiety, here's some updated Tom Paxton...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etUq7IY_7Mc
82 percent. Some of these
82 percent. Some of these questions are based on opinion and not necessarily fact.
That's true, plus there are
That's true, plus there are lots of irrelevancies.
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Score report:
84.85%
30 years of education IS worth something!
I got 84.85% also. But I
I got 84.85% also. But I still don't like the test. For example questions on Plato and the Puritans are irrelevant to American history or government.
Typical of Civics.
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I know.
Are there any Puritans left on earth, anyway?
They could have asked many relevant questions about the Constitution.
28/33 as well
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I got 72%. "You are a den
I got 72%.
"You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning." --Andrew Jackson,
1828
“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds”
-Sam Adams
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I got 67%
If the test was "civics",
If the test was "civics", i.e., the pompous drivel taught in public schools in avoidance of the Constitution, you shouldn't expect a lot. Civics is garbage.
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