In addition to subject matter skills, today’s college students need reasoning, problem-solving and thinking skills. Therefore, faculty need to understand the importance of those skills for students and themselves. As U.S. faculty engage in working with counterparts in foreign institutions to enhance curricula, teaching, and student learning, knowing more about faculty critical thinking styles should lead to more relevant professional development in international university settings. This project utilized the Critical Thinking Inventory (CTI) to ascertain the critical thinking styles of male and female faculty at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia during five, six-hour intensive workshops on teaching and learning. The CTI is a validated measure of CT style. The 20-item inventory was administered, and results were analyzed for separate groups, male and female, which is common in the Kingdom. Higher CTI scores indicate a “seeking information” style and lower scores indicate an “engagement” style. Female KSU faculty indicated on average a slight tendency toward the seeking style. Individually, 14 of the 22 females indicated a seeking style and 8 indicated an engaging style of critical thinking. On average, male KSU faculty indicated a slight tendency toward the engaging style, with 21 of the 39 males indicating the engaging style and the remaining18 indicating the seeking critical thinking style. As U.S. faculty engage in international programs, faculty Critical Thinking styles can be used to inform activities. Administering the CTI to students would also provide insight into student learning needs. Likewise, a better understanding of CT style for international faculty and students in the U.S. could enhance their teaching and learning.

In today's generation, a gadget becomes an indispensable companion that becomes our means in achieving the goal. This study determined the use and effects of social media to the values of tertiary school students, which can be used as a basis for the development of an educational program. A descriptive approach was used wherein the respondents were 80 students of Cagayan State University. A questionnaire was used as a guide which covers the demographic profile, favorite networking sites, effects, and benefits they obtain from using social media. In general, it is found that the benefits and effects of social media are significantly related to the values of young adults. Facebook/Messenger, Twitter, and Instagram are the top three social media sites used by the students. Majority of the student respondents strongly agreed that their day is not complete if they do not open their social media accounts, but overall social media has an excellent effect on the students. In terms of benefits they get from social media, it garnered a 4.252 over-all mean, which implies that most of the respondents obtain excellent benefits from using social media. As to the values of young adults, there is a significant impact on the students, especially in academic purposes and real-life lessons. It is therefore recommended that students should be introduced to sites that can add values to their academic work and research.

Introduction: According to the characteristics of the service industry of the teaching archivists, an index system for the evaluation of the service quality of teaching archivists is established. By using the intuitionistic fuzzy set theory, the subjective evaluation information of the investigated object is converted into the intuitionistic fuzzy numbers. Based on the score function of the intuitionistic fuzzy set, a bidirectional projection-based multiple attribute decision making method with intuitionistic fuzzy numbers is developed. Through the bidirectional projection measure between each alternative decision matrix and the ideal alternative matrix, all the alternatives can be ranked to select the best one. Finally, an illustrative example related about the service quality evaluation of the teaching archivists demonstrates the application of the proposed method.