The Quiz
by MikeGeneNick Matzke, who is Public Information Project Director at the NCSE, complains about some problems he may soon face as a teacher:
I do have a rather direct interest in the case myself, since I will be a Ph.D. student at U.C. Berkeley this fall, and will be a teaching assistant in the evolution course. Will the undergraduates that the U.C. admits be prepared, or will they require tedious remedial education to re-do all the biology they were taught incorrectly the first time around?
The crack research team at TT has obtained a copy of Nick's first quiz for his class. We've attached it below the fold:
1. Who played the most important role in the Kitzmiller vs. Dover decision?
a. Michael Behe
b. Ken Miller
c. Judge Jones
d. Nick Matzke
2. Who was the Public Information Project Director at the NCSE during the Kitzmiller vs. Dover decision?
a. Eugenie Scott
b. Barbara Forrest
c. Wesley Elsberry
d. Nick Matzke
3. Who is the world's leading expert on creationism and creationists?
a. Ron Numbers
b. Ed Larson
c. Michael Ruse
d. Nick Matzke
4. Who is the world's leading expert on the evolution of the bacterial flagellum?
a. Howard Berg
b. Ken Miller
c. Robert MacNab
d. Nick Matzke
5. The prestigious Seed magazine has described this person as a "revolutionary mind."
a. Richard Dawkins
b. Francis Crick
c. Al Gore
d. Nick Matzke
EXTRA CREDIT
6. Intelligent Design is
a. creationism
b. dishonest
c. dangerous
d. all of the above
May 18th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
LOL!
Comment by Nick Matzke — May 18, 2007 @ 8:04 pm
May 18th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
How many questions woud there need to be on the exam, where the "correct" answer is represented by the same letter of the alphabet, before we are justified in attributing the arrangement to design?
Comment by Mung — May 18, 2007 @ 8:04 pm
May 18th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
It's a good thing I wasn't eating, Mike. I'd have choked! §;o)
Comment by Joy — May 18, 2007 @ 8:06 pm
May 18th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
I second Nick's LOL!
Comment by obrienr — May 18, 2007 @ 8:42 pm
May 18th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
"or will they require tedious remedial education to re-do all the biology they were taught incorrectly the first time around"
Here's my own quiz:
Kids coming to college from high school remember the following from their high school biology courses:
a) The Krebs Cycle
b) The names of all known phyla
c) The Hardy-Weinberg equation
d) What the hot chick in the front row looked like wearing skimpy clothes in the Spring
Nick — my guess is that you don't have to worry about anything. I've taught other subjects at the college level and let me give you a guarantee — unless you are at MIT, ALL intro courses have remedial students, and it has little to do with what they were taught in high school.
Comment by johnnyb — May 18, 2007 @ 11:48 pm