Critical Thinking is considered a key component of Higher Education that supports graduates’ preparation for the labor market. However, in field teacher education more research needed to support student-teachers with regard complexity schools. It teaching practicum can set stage cultivation skills and dispositions, as have face real problems be led decision-making. The paper presented here desc...

As patient advocates, nurses are responsible for speaking up against unsafe practices. Nursing students must develop the confidence to speak up for patient safety so that they can hold themselves, as well as their peers and coworkers, accountable for patients' well-being. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a senior practicum course on confidence for speaking up for patient ...

Abstract This study investigated the structure of mentalization (Bateman & Fonagy, 2012) in a training context. The dual purpose was to evaluate the effectiveness of practicum student training and whether the Linguistic Inquiry method (Pennebaker, 2000) could be used to evaluate the three dimensions of mentalization— relational, cognitive, and emotional. The training utilized the groups and the...

OBJECTIVES Nursing curricula for undergraduate nursing students need to reflect the information technology used in current nursing practice. A smart-device Academic Electronic Medical Record (AEMR) application can help nursing students access and document records for the clinical practicum. We conducted a pilot study to evaluate the usability of an AEMR application before applying it to the cli...

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The present study aimed to investigate the interaction among grade dropping and reflective thinking abilities of the participants and to also check if action research enhances learners’ reflective thinking. A cyclic action research was run for 8 sessions. Kember et al.’s (2010) reflective thinking questionnaire and three in-term quizzes were administered. Students also made questions based on t...

The present study is aimed at investigating the relationship among Iranian EFL teachers’ reflective teaching, reflective thinking and classroom management ability. To this purpose, 102 male and female EFL teachers, aged between 25 and 40, with different academic background who were teaching at different levels, were chosen to fill in three questionnaires on reflective thinking, reflective teach...

Reflective Teaching and Its Impact on Students' Achievement in English F. Ghorbaan Dordinejaad, Ph.D. M. Rashvand Reflective teaching as a style in teaching has shown to be effective across different academic areas, in which teaching English is no exception. To demonstrate its effectiveness, a sample of 70 English teachers in Ghazvin was asked to answer two sets of questions o...

In this paper we provide a descriptive comparison of the similarities and differences between social work education at six different universities situated in Australia, England, Finland, Northern Ireland, Sweden, United States. The aim was to begin an international conversation by examining these examples, around admissions recruitment processes, professional training, field practicum prepare s...