critical thinking has accompanied man since his creation. man steps toward critical thinking when he starts to evaluate a matter logically. today in order to develop critical thinking and the importance of placing it in scientific fields, several researches have been carried out. recently, babamohadi and khalili (2004) found that there is a significant difference between freshman and senior stu...

the present study was conducted to investigate how efl learners with distinct levels of emotional intelligence might benefit from critical thinking-based instruction and use different language learning strategies. a further concern of this study was to investigate the relationship among critical thinking, language learning strategy, and emotional intelligence of efl learners. to this end, 88 ef...

the present study,in order toidentifythe effect of teaching by socratic discussion on students' critical thinking disposition in university, was performed in the qualitative approach and by an action research method with theparticipants in one group of education undergraduate students, who were selected by purposeful sampling (n=20). collecting data were applied by “the standardized open-e...

Teaching and assessing critical thinking have great professional benefit to nursing education (Daley, 1996, Facione, 1996). Major issues still center on and are discussed by nurse educators about the importance of teaching strategies that enhance critical thinking skills and measurements of critical thinking (Adams, 1999; Daley, Shaw, & Balistrieri, 1999; Facione & Facione, 1997). The purposes ...

relationship between critical thinking dispositions and academic achivement in urmia secondary school students     vahdat r [1] , zeinali a [2] , ahmadi doyran z [3] *     received: 2 sep, 2011 accepted: 5 dec, 2011     abstract   background& aims : these days critical thinking has been introduced as the main output of education by field experts. they notice teaching of thinking as a principal ...

The purpose of this study was to identify problem-solving ability, professional self concept, and critical thinking disposition of nursing students in Korea. This study employed a crosssectional survey design. The participants were 168 nursing students in the Republic of Korea. The factors that had the greatest influence on problem solving ability were ethics as subscale of professional self co...