abstract introduction: students with appropriate critical thinking disposition can facilitate the countries of scientific development, at the first step of endeavor toward the development is to have a valid and reliable instrument .this study carried out to determine validly and reliability of california critical thinking disposition inventory (cctdi) and critical thinking disposition of nursin...

conclusions the project succeeded in using focus group data from academics to inform software development while at the same time retaining the benefits of broader philosophical dimensions of critical thinking. materials and methods critiique is flexible, authorable software that guides students step-by-step through critical appraisal of research papers. the spelling of critiique was deliberate,...

introduction: critical thinking as a process of purposeful self-regulatory judgment leads to problem solving and correct decision making in individuals. in the modern world, health care faces rapid change and burgeoning amount of knowledge. possessing critical thinking is essential for individuals in health care centers, specially when they are forced to solve clinical problems. the aim of this...

critical thinking is one of the major aims of education, and its prerequisite is to have thoughtful teachers with critical thinking viewpoints. there have been numerous models for critical thinking including two major psychological and socio-political ones. the present article has considered a comparative study of critical thinking from the viewpoints of robert ennis and henry giroux considerin...

background: enhancing nursing students’ critical thinking is a challenge faced by nurse educators. this study aimed at determiningthe effect of clinical concept mapping on discipline-based critical thinking of nursing students. materials and methods: in this quasi-experimental post-test only design, a convenient sample of 4th year nursing students (n = 32)participated. they were randomly divide...

FROM Niccolo Machiavelli and David Hume to E. H. Carr and Hans Morgenthau, power has been an important (some would say too important) variable in international political theorizing. Although some may regard power analysis as old-fashioned and outdated, recent refinements in social science thinking about power suggest the possibility of revitalizing this approach to understanding international r...