"Study Links Binge Drinking and Low
Critical Thinking Skills"
The implications of the findings extend
beyond the individual students’ academic outcomes, said Scott Lewis, partner at
The NCHERM Group, LLC. Alcohol or drug use is almost always involved in rape
and non-sexual assault cases on campus, Lewis noted, and students will have a
harder time binging Thursday through Sunday once they’re in the work place.
“We know that when they’re drunk they’re
making less good decisions, but you can’t do that for four years and think it’s
not going to have an impact on you developmentally,” Lewis said, adding that
coping and conflict resolution skills are not helped by heavy alcohol use,
either. “For prevention education, it stresses the importance of making sure
students understand more clearly the definitions of consent and force and
incapacity in terms of sexual misconduct, as well as making students even more
aware of how to be appropriate interveners.”
But Lewis questioned the feasibility of
targeting first-year students whose critical thinking is substandard.
“I don’t know how we would identify that
specific group short of some sort of testing,” he said. “I think if you just
focus on the whole, that’d be smarter.”
Click here to read the full article.
"Study Links Binge Drinking and Low
Critical Thinking Skills"
The implications of the findings extend
beyond the individual students’ academic outcomes, said Scott Lewis, partner at
The NCHERM Group, LLC. Alcohol or drug use is almost always involved in rape
and non-sexual assault cases on campus, Lewis noted, and students will have a
harder time binging Thursday through Sunday once they’re in the work place.
“We know that when they’re drunk they’re
making less good decisions, but you can’t do that for four years and think it’s
not going to have an impact on you developmentally,” Lewis said, adding that
coping and conflict resolution skills are not helped by heavy alcohol use,
either. “For prevention education, it stresses the importance of making sure
students understand more clearly the definitions of consent and force and
incapacity in terms of sexual misconduct, as well as making students even more
aware of how to be appropriate interveners.”
But Lewis questioned the feasibility of
targeting first-year students whose critical thinking is substandard.
“I don’t know how we would identify that
specific group short of some sort of testing,” he said. “I think if you just
focus on the whole, that’d be smarter.”
Click here to read the full article.
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