The development of student thinking skills is a major goal of business education. As with other such goals, student outcomes assessment must be undertaken to measure goal achievement. Thinking is difficult to teach; it is also difficult to assess. The purpose of this article is to improve management educators' understanding of student thinking…

Reports results of a study of social science knowledge and critical-thinking ability among preservice teachers and five other college majors. Provides historical comparisons in addition to contemporary data. Results indicate that commonly perceived notion that elementary preservice teachers represent least knowledgeable body in the university…

The effect of college course content on students' growth in critical thinking was investigated. Students enrolled in various philosophy courses and a non-philosophy control were pre- and post-tested for critical thinking. Only the logic course had a consistent impact on certain aspects of critical thinking. (Author/RD)