Evaluative thinking (ET) is an increasingly important topic in the field of evaluation, particularly among people involved in evaluation capacity building (ECB). Yet it is a construct in need of clarification, especially if it is to be meaningfully discussed, promoted, and researched. To that end, we propose that ET is essentially critical thinking applied to contexts of evaluation. We argue th...

This article is about enhancing critical thinking as a crucial aspect of the competence citizens need to participate in society. First empirical research into the question which instructional strategies are ‘effective’ in enhancing critical thinking is reviewed. Characteristics of instruction that are assumed to enhance critical thinking are: paying attention to the development of the epistemol...

background: one of the main goals of nursing education is training them to provide proper medical services to patients as well as healthy people in the community and health centers using their knowledge and specific skills. this service requires nurses’ critical thinking and effective learning. the purpose of this study was to determine the impact of critical thinking skills on decision making ...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate Basic School teachers’ perspectives on the use differentiated instructional approaches promote creativity, critical thinking skills, cooperative teaching, and learning in Ho-West District Ghana.
 Methodology: A descriptive research design employed, a simple random sampling technique used select 289 teachers for study. data collected wer...

Reading instructions should go a bit beyond ‘explicit question’ to facilitate students’ critical thinking. What it means by is question whose answer can be found in the text explicitly. This research, therefore, aimed investigate EFL teachers’ reading find out what extend contained elements of reading. Twenty-seven teachers participated listing all activities they had given students throughout ...

abstractthe present study aimed to explore the impact of teaching critical thinking skills through applying debate on the use of communicative strategies. at first 60 intermediate students were selected and placed in two homogenous groups of control and experimental through passing nelson test. then, a critical thinking appraisal was run to the two groups both before and after the treatment. th...

Life long learning is important to keep oneself up-to-date in ones profession. Due to the rapid evolutionary nature of computer science, life long learning becomes even more important. Equipping the students with critical and creative thinking skills can make learning more effective. Critical and creative thinking skills can be taught either by offering explicit courses on such topics or the im...

Few would disagree that high quality thinking is a necessary condition for high quality writing. Yet, writing courses in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) often focus only marginally on principled and rigorous development of dialogical thinking and idea generation in preparation for written work. This study examines the effect of a model of critical thinking instruction (CTI) in a university ...