Do students entering university have the basic writing and math skills they need?
October 28, 2005 If the articles and editorials devoted to the topic are any indication, large numbers of first-year university students are incapable of writing a coherent sentence, even though they graduated from high school with good marks. Some universities have resorted to using “academic spies” who use statistical techniques to identify students that are in need of additional support. However, like most issues, the situation is more complex than first appears. What do we know: Are high school students developing the skills they need for university study? Many people – including university professors – worry that incoming university students do not have the skills of previous generations. That said, it is worth noting that professors have been making the same complaints about the lack of preparedness of incoming students since “the beginning of formal education”. Socrates was reputed to have had similar complaints about the students seeking his tutelage as do today’s university pr
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