the purpose of this research is to evaluate students’ critical thinking at ferdowsi university of mashhad. a total of 144 questionnaires were sent to undergraduate students to assess their critical thinking skills. in this research, the watson-glaser critical thinking appraisal has been used as of critical thinking’s tool that contains 80 item questions across a series of five test exercises an...

Performance appraisal has widened as a concept and as a set of practices and in the form of performance management has become part of a more strategic approach to integrating HR activities and business policies. As a result of this, the research on the subject has moved beyond the limited conŽ nes of measurement issues and accuracy of performance ratings and has begun to focus more of social an...

Abstract The 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. T...

Having attended the first National Workshop on Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine (Oxford, 1995), one of us actually has the T-shirt declaring his critical appraisal credentials. But although trained in clinical epidemiology, both before and since the workshop, the same person continues daily to doubt his critical thinking skills. The profusion of miniguides and short courses in Critical Appraisa...

BACKGROUND The prevalence rate of completed suicide in bipolar disorder is estimated to be as high as 19%. Social factors or influences, such as stigmatisation and family conflict, contribute to the development of suicidal ideation in clinical and non-clinical populations. Yet, there is a lack of studies examining suicidality from a psychosocial perspective in people who experience bipolar diso...

I describe my current thinking on two old questions—the causal role of appraisals and the relationship of appraisal theories to basic emotions theories and constructivist theories, and three (sort of) new questions—the completeness of appraisals, the role of language, and the development of automaticity in emotional responses.

A study was conducted to assess the relationship between critical thinking and belief in the paranormal. 180 students from three departments (psychology, arts, computer science) completed one measure of reasoning, the Paranormal Belief Scale (Tobacyk & Milford, 1983), and a scale of paranormal experiences. Half of the subjects filled out the Cornell Critical Thinking Test (Ennis & Millmann, 198...

Whole-life thinking for engineers working on the built environment has become more important in a fast changing world. Whole-life thinking is not new, every project attempts to balance the initial capital cost with the operating and maintenance cost of an asset. Engineers are increasingly concerned with complex systems, in which the parts interact with each other and with the outside world in m...