Academically Adrift
{{Short description|2011 book by Richard Arum}}
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Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses is a book written by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, published by the University of Chicago Press in January 2011.
The book examines the current state of higher education in the United States. The book and its findings received extensive national media coverage and sparked a debate about what undergraduate students learn once they get into college.
The research draws on transcript data, the Collegiate Learning Assessment, and survey responses from more than 2,300 undergraduates at twenty-four institutions in their first semester and again at the end of their second year. The analysis reveals that 45 percent of these students demonstrated no significant improvement in a range of skills—including critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writing—during their first two years of college.
See also
Reviews
- {{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/01/24/does-college-make-you-smarter/no-work-all-play-equals-a-job|author=Leef, George|title=No Work, All Play, No Job — Room for Debate |authorlink=George Leef|work=The New York Times |date=25 January 2011|accessdate=15 February 2011| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110218035150/http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/01/24/does-college-make-you-smarter/no-work-all-play-equals-a-job| archivedate= 18 February 2011 | url-status= live}}
- {{Cite web|url=http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/01/18/study_finds_large_numbers_of_college_students_don_t_learn_much |author=Jaschik, Scott |title=News: 'Academically Adrift' |work=Inside Higher Ed |date=18 January 2011|accessdate=15 February 2011| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20110216113305/http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/01/18/study_finds_large_numbers_of_college_students_don_t_learn_much| archivedate= 16 February 2011 | url-status= live}}
- {{Cite web|url=http://chronicle.com/article/Scholars-of-Education-Question/126345/ |author=Glenn, David |title=News: Scholars Question New Book's Gloom on Education |work=Chronicle of Higher Education |date=13 February 2011|accessdate=16 February 2011}}
- {{Cite web|url=http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/888976-264/what_do_we_do_now.html.csp |author=Bell, Steven |title=What Do We Do Now? |work=Library Journal |date=27 January 2011|accessdate=16 February 2011}}
- The New Yorker{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/06/06/live-and-learn-louis-menand|title=Live And Learn|first=Louis|last=Menand|magazine=The New Yorker|date=30 May 2011 }}
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Category:Books about education
Category:University of Chicago Press books
Category:2011 non-fiction books
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