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According to the "Academically Adrift" study, humanities and social science majors show the second highest gains in critical thinking skills, behind only science/math, above engineering and computer science.
To the extent that students are showing limited and declining learning, it largely reflexs a switch to business and education majors (business shows the least learning ,with education right behind), not a weakening of humanities majors.
For some reason, I very much want this to be true. And I take that as a warning sign. Does anyone know if it is true? And what sort of test could possibly measure 'maths creativity' and 'english creativity' on the same scale anyway?
They aren't measuring field specific skills, which is the whole point. They are measuring gains in critical thinking using the CLA test (i.e. how much better do you get at general critical thinking as a result of studying your major.). The study itself was quite famous and made the blog rounds a few years ago, I'm sure some light googling will answer any other questions.