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 ...

Objectives. The purpose of this study was to describe changes in critical thinking ability and disposition over a 4-year Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum. Methods. Two standardized tests, the California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST) and California Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory (CCTDI) were used to follow the development of critical thinking ability and disposition during a 4-yea...

The WebQuest is a student-centered, inquiry-oriented and project-based approach for teaching and learning that students use Web resources to learn school topics. This article reports on the design, implementation and evaluation of a WebQuest teaching approach for chemistry classroom teaching in improving the critical thinking of high school students. A preand post-test design was used where 4-m...

Purpose: The current study was conducted to determine the effect of critical thinking course given nursing students on their dispositions. Method: A one-group pre-test post-test quasi-experimental design used in study. total 58 who studied at Nursing Department Faculty Health Sciences a university fall term 2020-2021 academic year and selected elective were included group. Data collected by usi...

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...