Two samples, the first consisting of 13 and 16-year-olds and adults, the second consisting of children from kindergarten, second and sixth grades, are interviewed to measure the cognitive processes used to evaluate the credibility of television content. Additional goals include measuring the relationship between the use of these cognitive…

Tasks graded in terms of fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration of responses were administered to fourth graders in order to identify relationships between these measures of creativity, intelligence, and evaluation skills. With intelligence controlled, the relationship between creative thinking scores and evaluation ability was near…

Among other things, a general education is the habit of questioning. It transcends the more narrow limitations of a specific discipline. A core curriculum needs to be prescribed that consists of a variety of special interdisciplinary courses or ones especially organized around unifying interdisciplinary problems. (SW)

This article discusses values education, with its emphases on personal assessment and enjoyment of those things that have an impact on the individual. (JD)

This article discusses the importance of emotions in human life and how emotions can be brought under rational assessment and evaluated in relation to worthwhile educational goals. (JD)

After a brief history of graduate education in the United States was presented, the advantages of graduate degrees and the problems in utilizing those degrees were discussed. (RK)

This article describes the work of the Faculty Resource Center at the University of Cincinnati and the programs it provides related to faculty development and discusses the need for examining organizational, interpersonal, and personal constraints on the behaviors of college faculty. (JD)

Special instructional improvement grant programs have been created on many college and university campuses to provide faculty members with the resources for designing and carrying out educational innovations in their courses. (JD)

Three studies explored children's adoption of cultural forms of representation. Investigated were (1) children's judgments from students' drawings about the age of the artist; (2) children's preferences for drawings and the extent preferences match teachers'; and (3) differences between drawings children produce for themselves and those they…

Investigated whether children in kindergarten and grades 2 and 4 applied one- or two-dimensional rules in rating areas of rectangles, triangles, and ellipses. A majority of subjects produced judgments consistent with one of the rules. The findings contradict Piaget's claim that young children are limited to one-dimensional judgments. (SKC)

Suggests that business communication curricula should include instruction in critical thinking, and offers ways in which students can practice their critical thinking skills using business curricula. (JC)

Applications of social judgment theory are discussed with respect to policy formation and decisionmaking in educational contexts. Interactive computer technology is described, which can execute social judgment analyses, provide cognitive feedback to the policymaker on selected policy parameters, compare the policies of several policymakers, and…

Reviews the background leading to the development and evaluation of problems to examine student ability to do qualitative reasoning, applying concepts rather than algorithms. Describes creation of quantitative and qualitative problem papers, summarizes results, and proposes distinctions based on cognitive difficulty. (JM)

A semantic differential measure of the attributions of the term feminist was developed and administered to 768 college students. Principal components analysis resulted in five factors: general evaluation, behavioral characteristics, political orientation, sexual preference, and gender classification. Internal replication and stability of the…

A model of how the human cognitive system operates in its natural social context is presented. The model focuses on both input and output variables that have been ignored in the development of most other cognitive theories. Unique predictions of the model and empirical evidence bearing on them are discussed. (Author/LMO)