Here are the pre test results for my 2302's. This class covers the three branches of government and the basics of public policy. This is what they (or you) know in the aggregate. 35 students in two classes took the test.
What they know:
- Most courts cases are heard in state and local courts (97%)
- The framers created a unitary executive in order to provide for energetic government (92%)
- The president is elected by an electoral college (86%)
- The term of a member of the House of Representatives is two years (83%)
- The president is the highest military authority in the U.S. (80%)
What they don't:
- Parties to a court case must demonstrate that they have standing in orde for the case to be heard (26%)
- The primary task of the bureaucracy is implementation (28%)
- Once the rules of a federal agency are approved they have the force of law (28%)
- Congressional activities such as the use of public hearings to ask questions of bureaucratic agencies are called oversight (32%)
- The case of Marbury v. Madison established the power of judicial review (38%)
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