ABSTRACT More and more is heard from scholars, accrediting institutions, and the business world about the importance of developing critical thinking and written communication skills in college graduates. This is perhaps especially true, in a business school, for international business graduates who lack a traditional functional major. Often, the development of these skills is thought best accomplished through courses that integrate knowledge, take a problem-based approach, and include a signature work for each student. In this article, we discuss one institution’s international business capstone course, illustrating how it adheres to these ideals. From the standpoint of informal assessment, we discuss how student results from the course are used to tweak feeder courses to the capstone. We also discuss the more formal assessment of the course learning objectives, which we are just beginning.

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在国际商务课程中整合知识并发展批判性思维：一项永无止境的工作正在进行中

摘要在大学毕业生中，越来越多的学者，认证机构和商业界听到有关发展批判性思维和书面交流技巧的重要性的信息。对于一所商学院来说，对于缺少传统职能专业的国际商科毕业生来说，尤其如此。通常，通过整合知识，采用基于问题的方法并为每个学生签名的课程，可以最好地完成这些技能的开发。在本文中，我们讨论了一个机构的国际业务发展历程，说明了它如何遵循这些理想。从非正式评估的角度来看，我们讨论了如何利用该课程的学生成绩来调整支线课程。