![]() 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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