What do you think about generational research and it's application in higher education? Does the Quiz: How Millennial Are You? make you feel left out/misunderstood or provide helpful insights/affirmation? According to Richard Pells, The Peculiar Generation (Chronicle of Higher Education, 3/21/2010) gets lost in the generational conversations. I think that it's an example of how broad categorizations break down as one becomes more specific. Understanding people, their context, and their culture (especially our … [Read more...] about The Peculiar Generation?
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Quiz: How Millennial Are You?
Last night I took the Pew Research Center's Quiz: See How You Compare to the Millennial Generation (HT: How Millennial Are You? Chronicle of Higher Education, 3/17/2010). I scored a "22" with the below markers on a scale up to "100." "4" for Silent Generation "11" for Baby Boomer "33" for Gen X-er "73" for Millenial What's your score? Anyone have comments on the quiz (and where you fall), the data found at Millennials: A Portrait of Generation Next, and/or how this material should be used … [Read more...] about Quiz: How Millennial Are You?