Video games are not just an important cultural artifact of youth culture but have considerable cognitive worth. Centered within an information processing theory and mediating processes’ framework, the empirical qualitative study investigated, via stimulated recall methods, the thinking skills and strategies of five teenagers while playing an action-adventure video game. Sixteen types and 600 in...

Within the pharmacy profession, educators and professional organizations suggest that pharmacy students should be taught critical thinking (CT) skills and how to use them.1,2 Furthermore, pharmacy programs should be assessed on their implementation of curricula that foster the development of critical thinking. Pharmacy has often tried to assess students’ critical thinking skills by observing st...

In this study, students’ learning has been investigated and satisfaction in one of the course offered at Qatar University Foundation Program. Innovative teaching has been implied methodology that emphasizes on enhancing students’ thinking skills, decision making, and problem solving skills. Some interesting results were found which could be used to further improvement of the teaching methodolog...

A COMPARISON OF CRITICAL THINKING ABILITY AND CLINICAL JUDGEMENT SKILLS IN ASSOCIATE AND BACCALAUREATE SENIOR NURSING STUDENTS By Debra L. Sietsema The purpose of this descriptive, correlational study was to compare the critical thinking and clinical judgement skills of senior nursing students at two educational levels. A convenience sample of 34 students in the Midwest was obtained during the ...

Science graduates require critical thinking skills to deal with the complex problems they will face in their 21st century workplaces. Inquiry-based curricula can provide students with the opportunities to develop such critical thinking skills; however, evidence suggests that an inappropriate level of autonomy provided to underprepared students may not only be daunting to students but also detri...

Objectives: The main purpose of this research was to study the effectiveness of positive thinking skills training on increasing happiness of male adolescents with physical-mobility disability. Methods: In this study an experimental research design with pre-test, post-test, and control group is used. All adolescents (boys) having disabled physical mobility from all the high schools in southern ...

This is a report of a workshop presented at Experimental Biology '99 on April 18, 1999, in Washington, DC.

Our future society will be different from that we have known in the last fifty years. Futurists foresee that in the near couple decades the world’s community will traverse through a period of rapid technological innovations that will change the foundations of society as we used to know it (Tapscott, 1997; Wallace, 1999; Borgmann; 1999). Changes will engulf all aspects of life (Gleick, 1999). Th...

Whether performed by national agencies or local law enforcement, the ultimate objective of intelligence analysis is to develop timely inferences that can be acted upon with confidence. To this end, effective intelligence analysis consists of integrating collected information and then developing and testing hypotheses based on that information through successive iterations of additional data col...