introduction: critical thinking disposition indicates individual’s inclination to critical thinking, which is one of the domains of personality. individual characteristics are important and influential factors in the growth and development of students’ critical thinking. one of these influential characteristics might be self-esteem, thus this study was to determine the correlation between criti...

we studied the effects of using reflective action approach (raa) on critical thinking of students and teachers. the research method was a semi-experimental and factorial design (2×2). the subjects were 93 students from tabriz teachers education colleges of which 46 students and teachers (24 female and 22 male) formed the experimental group to receive raa and 47 students and teachers (25 female ...

the present study was conducted to investigate how efl learners with distinct levels of emotional intelligence might benefit from critical thinking-based instruction and use different language learning strategies. a further concern of this study was to investigate the relationship among critical thinking, language learning strategy, and emotional intelligence of efl learners. to this end, 88 ef...

BACKGROUND Arguments for including mindfulness instruction in higher education have included claims about the benefits of mindfulness practice for critical thinking. While there is theoretical support for this claim, empirical support is limited. The aim of this study was to test this claim by investigating the effects of an online mindfulness intervention on executive function, critical thinki...

This paper offers a state-of-the-art working definition for the concept of Critical Thinking (CT hereafter) in an attempt to provide a framework for the development of an operational definition for this complex concept. Having studied various definitions and models, proposed for CT by major figures in the field, the key defining features of this rich concept were identified and classified. Base...