How's your American Civics Literacy?
08:13, 24 November 2008
.. Posted in Communication, Outreach and General Mngmt.. Link
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) compiled a quiz to measure American civics knowledge. US elected officials scored abysmally, with an average grade of just 44 percent. Ordinary citizens did not fare much better, scoring just 49 percent. The average score online for this quiz during November: 77.9%. My score: 93.94 % -- I missed two (I'm a history and politics nerd)
Here's the quiz.
Do a search on Yahoo News, and you will see that this quiz has generated a lot of media buzz.
What about developing an online quiz regarding your organization's focus -- women's health, local history, childhood immunization, environmental issues, etc. -- posting it to your web site, encouraging people to take the quiz, and then reporting how people did via a press release to your local media, or even the national or international media? You could use the results to show the need for your organization, or even the impact of your organization, depending on how you conduct the quiz.
