The Pro and Con grid gives faculty a quick overview of a class's analysis of the pros and cons, costs and benefits, or advantages and disadvantages of an issue of mutual concern. Even a cursory reading of students' lists of pros and cons provides important information on the depth and breadth of their analyses and on their capacity for objectivity. This assessment forces students to go beyond their first reactions, to search for at least two sides to the issue in question, and weigh the value of competing claims.