Re: Kids are getting dumber say 'experts'


Old Boy wrote:
"The evidence comes from a study of the reasoning powers of over 10,000
children, funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council. Led by
Professor Michael Shayer of King's College, London, researchers
examined Year 7 children (aged 11 to 12), the age group that is
supposed to show the first signs of coping with abstract reasoning.
Tests included the well-known teaser about the relative volumes of
water in tall, thin tubes compared to short, fat ones.

"The results were, in Shayer's own words, "staggering". They showed
that 11-year-olds struggle with basic challenges, and typically have
the reasoning powers of an eight- or nine-year-old in the early 1990s."

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=2&subID=830

If kids are indeed getting dumber, how to explain ever-higher
pass-rates for A-levels? Matched for ability, today's A-level students
are getting results 1.3 grades higher than they did back in 1995

Better teaching could be one explanation, but research at Durham
University suggests the most likely explanation is the simplest: grade
inflation.

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