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Academically Adrift
Richard Arum、Josipa Roksa · 初版 2010 年
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一份基于调查问卷、成绩单数据以及 Collegiate Learning Assessment 的统计分析，旨在评估学生在大学前几年的学业成效。分析显示，近半数受访学生在批判性思维、复杂推理和写作等技能上没有显著提升。该分析进而探讨了导致这种教育成效不足的可能原因。
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Academically Adrift
Richard Arum、Josipa Roksa · 初版 2010 年
一份基于调查问卷、成绩单数据以及 Collegiate Learning Assessment 的统计分析，旨在评估学生在大学前几年的学业成效。分析显示，近半数受访学生在批判性思维、复杂推理和写作等技能上没有显著提升。该分析进而探讨了导致这种教育成效不足的可能原因。
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……他们没有被社会化以适应等级制机构中枯燥乏味的工作生活，反而被社会化去过一种玩乐和自我表达的生活。正如 Richard Arum 和 Josipa Roksa 在其著作《Academically Adrift》中冷淡评价的那样：>> 如果我们假设学生每晚睡八个小时——鉴于他们早上上课经常迟到且有时仪容不整，这已经是个很宽容的假设了——那还剩下 85 个小时……
…Instead of being socialized for lives of boring work in hierarchical organizations, they’re being socialized for lives of play and self-expression. As Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa frostily remark in their Academically Adrift: >> If we presume that students are sleeping eight hours a night, which is a generous assumption given their tardiness and at times disheveled appearance in early morning classes, that leaves 85 hours…
……规则也一样。有很多研究表明，想教给学生任何实打实的东西有多难，大多数人只会试图死记硬背你说的每句话。比如参见：https://www.amazon.com/Academically-Adrift-Limited-Learning-...
…rules as well. There are lots of studies showing how hard it is to teach students anything tangible, instead most will just try to memorize everything you say. See for example: https://www.amazon.com/Academically-Adrift-Limited-Learning-...
每次聊到这个话题我都会吐槽这一点。引用文章里的内容：在一个典型的学期里，Arum 和 Roksa 在他们近期的新书《Academically Adrift》中所追踪的学生中，有三分之一的人没有选修“任何每周阅读量超过四十页的课程”，有一半人没有选修“哪怕一门需要写超过二十页的课程”。而我有些学期光是……
This is my common complaint when the issue comes up. From the article, In a typical semester, one third of the students Arum and Roksa followed for their recent book, Academically Adrift, did not take “any courses that required more than forty pages of reading per week” and half did not take “a single course that required more than twenty pages of writing.” I had semesters that were…
……从 7.6% 降到了 4% 左右。什么专业取代了它的地位？商科，现在大约占了所有授予学位的四分之一。此外，根据 Arum 和 Roska 在《Academically Adrift》中的研究，硬核理工科和人文学科（包括英语专业）的本科生在前两年里，阅读理解能力、写作技能和数学能力往往有大幅提升……
…7.6 percent to around 4 percent. What field has taken its place? Business, which now accounts for about a quarter of all degrees awarded. Moreover, according to the research done by Arum and Roska in Academically Adrift, undergrads in the hard sciences and humanities (including English) tend to show substantial increases in their reading comprehension skills, writing skills, and math skills over their first two years…
……成本和贷款却依然存在。http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/02/27/college_co... 其次，大学能对这项资产进行“升级”的想法充其量只是似是而非。http://www.amazon.com/Academically-Adrift-Limited-Learning-C... 第三，拿了学位的人确实赚得更多，但别忘了他们实际上少工作了四年甚至更久。那是政府少收了 4 年的税收和加薪。考虑到工资……
…the costs and loans still live on. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/02/27/college_co... Second, the very idea that college "upgrades" the asset is specious at best. http://www.amazon.com/Academically-Adrift-Limited-Learning-C... Third, people with degrees do earn more, but remember that they actually take four years or more off. That's 4 years of taxes and raises that the government doesn't get. Given wages…
……一个比另一个声誉更高（压力也更大）。美国的平等主义者绝不会容忍这一点。话虽如此，我们也不能继续资助现有的这个体系了，正如 R. Arum 在《Academically Adrift》中所言，它让许多学生背负了巨额债务，却几乎没有学到能在市场上立足的技能。就像《Paying for the Party》的作者指出的那样，这些学生玩得很嗨，但学到的东西微乎其微。这两本书（以及 Arum 的后续……
…one more prestigious (and more stressful) than the other. The egalitarians in the US would never stand for this. That said, we cannot continue to fund the system we have which according to R. Arum's Academically Adrift, leaves many students with a mountain of debt and few marketable skills. As the authors of "Paying for the Party" note, these students had a great time but learned little. Both books (and Arum's follow…