Current research on college students' knowledge, learning strategies, and critical thinking gives a better picture of the complexity of the learning process and can be used by faculty to improve interactions with individual students in different settings. (MSE)

There are now established methods and models to assess critical thinking in any discipline. The approach selected will depend on how critical thinking is defined, whether national norms are needed, and how the results will be used. (Author)

Attempts to determine the skills that make people good problem solvers and some of the methods that have been developed to teach these skills are reviewed. Methods used by educators and psychologists to define, describe, or analyze problems and problem solving determine the method used to teach problem-solving skills. (Author/MLW)

The shared values of liberal and professional educators can form the basis for integrating liberal learning into professional education. Liberal education outcomes are identified: communication competence, critical thinking, contextual competence, aesthetic sensibility, professional identity, professional ethics, adaptive competence, leadership…