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Improve Computer-research Skills
Like many college students, Jose Juarez carries around a pocket-sized computer that lets him watch movies, surf the Interact and text-message his friends1.
Hes part of Generation M - those born after 1985 who __1__ up connected to everything from video game to cellphones.
For us, its everyday life, said Juarez, 18, a freshman __2__ California State University at Sacramento (CSUS)。
__3__,educators are now saying that not all Generation M-ers can synthesize the piles of information theyre accessing.
Theyre geeky2, but they dont know what to __4__ with their geekdom, said
Barbara OConnor, a Sacramento State communications studies professor who has been involved in a nationwide __5__ to improve students computer-research skills.
In a recent nationwide test to __6__ their technological literacy their ability to use the Interact to complete class assignments - only 49 percent correctly evaluated a set of Web sites for objectivity, authority and timeliness. Only 35 per cent could correctly narrow an overly __7__ Internet search.
About 130 Sacramento State students, including Juarez, participated in the experimental test, __8__ to 6,300 college students across the country.
The hour-long assessment test is conducted by Educational Testing Service. It is a web-based scavenger hunt3(拾荒游戏) __9__ simulated Interact search engines and academic databases that spit out purposely misleading information.
Theyre very good at __10__ in and using the Internet, but dont always understand what they get back, said Linda Goff, head of instructional services for the CSUS library.
You see an open search box, you type in a few words and you __11__ the button, said Goff, who is involved in the testing.
They take at face value __12__ shows up at the top of the list as the best stuff.
Educators say that these sloppy research skills are troubling.
We look at that as a foundational skill, in the same way we __13__ math and English as a foundational skill, said Lorie Roth, assistant vice-chancellor for academic programmes in the CSU5 system.
Measuring how well students can sort the good __14__ the bad on the Internet has become a higher priority for CSU, Roth said.
CSU is considering __15__ a mandatory assessment test on technological literacy for all freshmen, much as it has required English and math placement tests since the 1980s.
Students in freshman seminars at Sacramento State were asked to take the test early in the semester and were expected to finish another round this week to measure their improvement.
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