Are you unsure how to do long division? Are you reluctant to sign off on an email without spell-check? Do you find navigating a government website confusing?
If you answered yes, you’re not alone.
A report from the Educational Testing Service, the testing and assessment organization behind the SAT Test and Advanced Placement tests among others, found that American millennials fall short compared to their peers in other countries in terms of skills employers are looking for. These include practical math, literacy, and problem solving in technology-rich environments (PS-TRE).
“Millennials may be on track to be our most educated generation ever,” the ETS stated in its report, “but they consistently score below many of their international peers in literacy, numeracy, and problem solving.”
The ETS defines a millennial as someone born after 1980 and who was in the 16−34 age range during the time of assessment.
