This study intended to investigate the interplay of critical thinking explicit instruction, academic writing performance, critical thinking ability, and critical thinking dispositions of Iranian students. To this end, 140 students of Jahrom University of Medical Sciences (73 males and 67 females) were selected. They were divided into the experimental and control groups. Both groups received ins...

irtually everyone would agree that a primary, yet insufficiently met, goal of schooling is to enable students to think critically. In layperson’s terms, critical thinking consists of seeing both sides of an issue, being open to new evidence that disconfirms your ideas, reasoning dispassionately, demanding that claims be backed by evidence, deducing and inferring conclusions from available facts...

the present study aims to determine the psychometric characteristics of the watson–glaser critical thinking test among employees in the iranian national oil company. for this purpose, 380 employees referred to ‘the assessment center’in 1390-91 were selected through random sampling method  . the research method is a descriptive – instrument maling one. in which two tests were used:  1)watson–gla...

implementing value line learning strategy in increasing students’ critical thinking speaking skill This study is attempted to find out based problem as an appropriate help the students increase using at second grade SMA NW Pendem. The methods of research applied are quantitative and qualitative approach research. concert class Pendem sample 23 students. To analyze data, researcher used observat...