[tips] Re: Spellings Releases Plan for Higher Ed

[Christopher D. Green]

Allen Esterson wrote: England and Italy were the only really sure bets. France and Spain were at around 50%. Everything else was much lower... Chris, Some clarification please. When you say that "England" was identified on the map of Europe, do you actually mean that Britain (i.e., England, Wales and Scotland) was 'identified' as "England"? -:) A thousand pardons. I accepted "England" in place of what should have been "UK" (and, as I recall, most wrote "England" instead of "UK"). Did most of the students exclude Ireland from "England"? Although the border of northern Ireland was included (and should have tipped them off), few seemed to take any notice of this and few labelled the island of Éire at all, north or south. From this, I could not reliably tell whether they knew that the Republic of Ireland is a separate country but didn't know its name, or whether they believed Ireland to be part of (what they typically called) "England." It was several years ago and I don't have exact numbers Best, Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-5115 ex. 66164 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.yorku.ca/christo ============================= --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english