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College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds - LevelUP - 07-07-2026
College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-students-testing-level-10-140100147.html
What's some of the biggest reasons for this decline?
RE: College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds - origamishuttle - 07-07-2026
(07-07-2026, 11:14 AM)LevelUP Wrote: What's some of the biggest reasons for this decline?
I may have missed it in the article, but what decline?
RE: College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds - soba - 07-07-2026
Smartphones
RE: College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds - sanantone - 07-07-2026
Online schooling during COVID, COVID infections lowering cognitive scores, and using technology for non-tech lessons in the classroom. Research suggests that children retain less information when they learn from computers. In English-speaking countries, some schools switched to a whole language or three-cueing pedagogy method for teaching reading, and they neglected phonics. It wasn't until a few years ago that some states in the U.S. began banning this instructional method because it's not supported by scientific research.
RE: College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds - FireMedic_Philosopher - 07-07-2026
In my area several private k-12 schools remain "tech free" and rely on textbooks, writing assignments on paper, et cetera... with no tablets used by students to complete assignments or activities in the classroom. Their scores are still high, with graduates routinely reading and writing at a college level as early as freshman year.
RE: College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds - Mint Berry Crunch - 07-07-2026
(07-07-2026, 11:14 AM)LevelUP Wrote: College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-students-testing-level-10-140100147.html
What's some of the biggest reasons for this decline?
I know plenty of them, even a few in my doctoral courses
College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds - NotJoeBiden - 07-07-2026
(07-07-2026, 03:32 PM)sanantone Wrote: Online schooling during COVID, COVID infections lowering cognitive scores, and using technology for non-tech lessons in the classroom. Research suggests that children retain less information when they learn from computers. In English-speaking countries, some schools switched to a whole language or three-cueing pedagogy method for teaching reading, and they neglected phonics. It wasn't until a few years ago that some states in the U.S. began banning this instructional method because it's not supported by scientific research.
I feel like alot of people ignore the substantial impact the pandemic had on learning.
RE: College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds - Mint Berry Crunch - 07-07-2026
(07-07-2026, 10:28 PM)NotJoeBiden Wrote:(07-07-2026, 03:32 PM)sanantone Wrote: Online schooling during COVID, COVID infections lowering cognitive scores, and using technology for non-tech lessons in the classroom. Research suggests that children retain less information when they learn from computers. In English-speaking countries, some schools switched to a whole language or three-cueing pedagogy method for teaching reading, and they neglected phonics. It wasn't until a few years ago that some states in the U.S. began banning this instructional method because it's not supported by scientific research.
I feel like alot of people ignore the substantial impact the pandemic had on learning.
I have written significantly on this topic during my time in the M.Ed program. Many institutions simply had managerial myopia and refused to integrate educational technologies and train staff to adjust to new technologies (a much longer discussion to be had on Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) and instructor/teacher stubbornness to adapt to new changes in education). Although I'm not a fan of anecdotal evidence most of the time, I have bear witness to see schools scramble as they try to quickly adapt their learning environments to asynchronous and or synchronous formats. Many instructors/teachers/professors have for longest time been so used and accustomed to traditional lectures that they were stumped when it came to integrating course material to online platforms. People may say "oh well we struggled during snow days to catch up on homework", but the last time we have ever had something so catastrophic like this that it immobilized whole communities to this extent was back during the Spanish Flu -- unfortunately I have seen first-hand how massive the causalities were. There is a LOT of academic literature discussing solely about the topic of COVID-19 and education. I even wrote about my experiences with COVID in UMPI History of Infectious Diseases course (which gained a lot of interest)
(07-07-2026, 03:32 PM)sanantone Wrote: Online schooling during COVID, COVID infections lowering cognitive scores, and using technology for non-tech lessons in the classroom. Research suggests that children retain less information when they learn from computers. In English-speaking countries, some schools switched to a whole language or three-cueing pedagogy method for teaching reading, and they neglected phonics. It wasn't until a few years ago that some states in the U.S. began banning this instructional method because it's not supported by scientific research.
This is equally as frustrating as parents who utilize the unschooling methodology at home.
RE: College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds - Marcus Aurelius - 07-08-2026
Terrible teachers are a big part of the problem. Some of my high school teachers were older, and they were obviously just doing the bare minimum to make it to retirement. Whatever spark for teaching they may have once had had long since faded.
Other teachers were lazy. One of my gym teachers would come out of the office attached to the gym at the beginning of class, toss some basketballs at us, tell us to "shoot ball," and then go back in his office and close the door. He would emerge again near the end of the class to collect the balls. He was paid a teacher's salary for that.
Just because someone has a teaching credential doesn't mean they can actually teach.