![]() ![]() ![]() If their findings are robust or broadly generalizable, American postsecondary education may be facing a period of considerable soul searching. Whether or not they intended to, Arum and Roksa have thrown down a sizable gauntlet. ![]() The book's core conclusion that postsecondary education has little effect on student learning is based largely on three major outcomes: (1) small average gains during college on a standardized measure of critical thinking and complex reasoning (the Collegiate Learning Assessment, or CLA) (2) a large percentage of students failing to make individually significant gains on the CLA during college and (3) low levels of engagement in serious academic work such as studying and writing. The publication of Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa's influential new book, "Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses," the findings of which were summarized in an article by the same authors in the March/April "Change," has caused a national furor centering around their multi-institutional findings that the general impact of college on student intellectual development is considerably less than stellar. ![]()
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