Study links critical thinking to job placement
By Abigail Meredith | January 26, 2012Students who do not exercise critical thinking skills and are not civically engaged in college have greater difficulty finding jobs, according to a study released yesterday at the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. The study, "Documenting Uncertain Times: Post-graduate Transition of the Academically Adrift Cohort," used the Collegiate Learning Assessment, a standardized testing evaluation of higher education, to compare the academic strength of 925 students to post-graduate success. The study comes about a year after University Asst.
