The Real Test : Can College Students Reason About Evidence?
Date
2018-01-04Author
Bleske-Rechek, April L.
Paulich, Katie
Richmond, Caitlin
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Scientific literacy is considered essential in
modern society (Anelli, 2011), where reasoning
skills and knowledge of the scientific process
can help citizens evaluate claims about food,
relationships, health, climate change, etc. But do people use scientific thinking to evaluate the claims they hear and read? Levels of scientific literacy in the U.S. are low overall (Miller, 2007), and multiple studies now suggest that undergoing a college education
may not solve the problem. About one-third of
college students show no growth (or even a
decline) in critical thinking and scientific
reasoning while in college (Arum & Roksa,
2011; Blaich & Wise, 2011; Bleske-Rechek &
Donovan, 2015;). Such findings imply that even college educated individuals may be ill-prepared to
evaluate the various claims they are exposed to
on a daily basis. Thus, we exposed students to
several claims and assessed how convinced they
were by varied levels of evidence for the
claims.
Subject
Critical thinking
College students
Scientific literacy
Branding
Psychology
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