The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect critical thinking-infused paragraph writing instruction on enhancing university first-year L2 students’ intellectual traits. involved two randomly selected Social Science stream classes. researchers employed embedded design in because they mainly used quantitative data augmented by qualitative data. analyzed questionnaire and interview usi...

Instructional labs are fundamental to an undergraduate physics curriculum, but their possible learning goals vast with limited evidence support any particular goal. In this study, we evaluate the efficacy of different and structures on students’ critical thinking skills views about experimentation, using extensive database survey responses from over 20 000 students at 100 institutions. Here, sh...

The gap between known benefits of socio-constructivist pedagogies to online instruction, and schoolteacher practices has been widely documented. To better understand the gap this research characterizes the range of schoolteachers’ online practices and the relation between their pedagogical perceptions and these practices. Two groups of teachers were studied: Novices and leaders in online instru...

OBJECTIVE Clinical reasoning concepts can be viewed as descriptions of mental operations or as a thinking frame--a structure to organize and support clinical thinking. This study examined an approach for teaching clinical reasoning as a thinking frame to occupational therapy students. METHOD A quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest design was used with a convenience sample of 10 undergraduate o...

background & aim : students’ academic achievement is one of the important indicators in the assessment of higher education. applying critical thinking in education is a significant factor affecting the growth and development of the students. this study was performed in an attempt to determine the relationship between critical thinking dispositions and academic achievement in midwifery students ...

BACKGROUND Problem-based learning (PBL) is a method used to develop cognitive and metacognitive skills in nursing students. OBJECTIVES The present study was conducted to compare the effects of PBL and the traditional lecture method on critical thinking skills and metacognitive awareness in nursing students in a critical care nursing course. DESIGN The present study was conducted with a quas...