Describes a study that analyzed the Educational Testing Service's (ETS) Tasks in Critical Thinking as a measure of college student critical thinking skills. Reports that difficulty levels of the Tasks and Skills were not consistent--overall, the number of general education courses taken did not affect student performance on the task, and students'…

Finding, accessing, and determining the credibility of information are skills most people would deem necessary for the college educated person, if not the average citizen, to possess today. At the same time, educators, as well as constituents of educational institutions are asking for better and more sophisticated assessment instruments of…

Describes the new general education program at James Madison University (Virginia) and the process by which it was developed. Indicates that the program is organized by five broad areas of knowledge that are defined by interdisciplinary clusters of learning objectives, which in turn were developed using input from every academic department on…