Critical thinking comprises the mental processes, strategies, and representations people use to solve problems, make decisions, and learn new concepts. The study of critical thinking combines the educational, philosophical, and psychological traditions of thought. R. Ennis offers a philosophical taxonomy suggesting that critical thinking results from the interaction of a set of dispositions tow...

The development of critical thinking skills in agricultural audiences has been identified as an important need. While several studies have examined the effect of teacher delivery methods that foster higher order thinking, levels of cognition, and critical thinking in agricultural education, few studies have addressed delivery methods fostering critical thinking in agricultural distance educatio...

Abstract This study aimed to investigate the predictive role of critical thinking dispositions and new media literacies on ability detect fake news social media. The sample group consisted 157 university students. Sosu Critical Thinking Dispositions Scale, New Media Literacy detection task were employed gather data. It was found that students possess high as well abilities there is a positive m...

Critical thinking (CT) is important to nursing education and practice. Although there is evidence that active learning approaches, such as problem-based learning (PBL), are effective in developing CT dispositions, the findings are inconclusive. This study examines the effect of PBL on the development of CT dispositions in nursing students using a crossover-experimental study in a course offered...

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 ...

In Stanovich's (2009a, 2011) dual-process theory, analytic processing occurs in the algorithmic and reflective minds. Thinking dispositions, indexes of reflective mind functioning, are believed to regulate operations at the algorithmic level, indexed by general cognitive ability. General limitations at the algorithmic level impose constraints on, and affect the adequacy of, specific strategies ...