Although college catalogs contain expressions of devotion to the cause of developing in students a capacity for and commitment to critical thought, there are philosophical, scientific and practical problems surrounding this aim. To measure student values and differences in intellectual dispositions, the Center designed a research instrument, the…

An Institutional Goals Inventory at Frostburg State College presents respondents with 90 prestructured goal statement questions and twenty-six locally prepared questions. The 90 goal statement questions compose twenty goal areas. Goals areas are: academic development, intellectual orientation, individual personal development, humanism/altruism,…