Developing and Assessing Students’ Global Perspective: The International
News Viewpoint Exercise
Carole Cangioni, Jing Liu, Erin Masters, Jaclyn PerrmannGraham, and Sandra Spataro
Haile College of Business, Northern Kentucky University, USA
Volume 20: 2025, pp. 307-338; ABSTRACT
Developing a global perspective is critical to management education. This paper presents
an instructional exercise for students of international business, international management, or
international marketing that develops global perspectives by having students critically evaluate
news narratives from multiple countries. By selecting a current event and analyzing how media
sources from different countries frame the story, students gain insight into the role of media bias,
political and cultural influences, and global interconnectedness. This exercise builds critical
information literacy by requiring students to assess diverse viewpoints, identify patterns in
reporting, and recognize how factors such as sociopolitical and economic systems shape media
narratives. Assessment mechanisms aligned with assurance of learning goals are included and can
be implemented in face-to-face, online, or hybrid modalities using online news articles.
Keywords: news bias, critical information literacy, management education, assurance of learning.
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