Colleges Working To Create Test To Evaluate Internet I.Q.

As if incoming students didn’t have enough on their plate, Cal State - and several other colleges - are teaming up with the Educational Testing Service(ETS) to create a test that will evaluate Internet intelligence.  The test aims to measure whether students can find reliable online information, and give proper credit to the material.  The test is expected to be available next year to students, and will be voluntary. This quote says it all:

This test measures a skill as important as having mathematics and English skills when you come to the university,” says Roth. “If you don’t come to the university with it, you need to know that you are lacking some skills that educated people are expected to have.

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