When a class of future teachers rated the nation's schools, local schools received higher grades than schools nationally. A follow-up essay disclosed that 97 percent of these college seniors obtained their information from newspaper, magazine, or television coverage. If 75 percent of Gallup Poll respondents gave local schools passing grades, media…

This study of the nature and characteristics of thinking examined how university students without full-time work experience and university graduates with work experience think when posed with an indeterminate situation. The focus was on such characteristics as expression tendencies, approaches to responding, thinking movements, and learning…