Teaching learners to be critical has become more important in education currently. Prospective employers and institutions of higher learning expect learners to be able to transfer learning to various situations. This study sought to investigate the utilisation of critical thinking skills in distance education. It was a qualitative study that explored experiences of teachers who were registered ...

Introduction: The widespread developments of the twentyfirstcentury have been accompanied by the presentation ofintellectual patterns and theories and new achievements. Thesenew achievements emphasize the skill of thinking at high levels,especially in the educational system of universities. This skillis essential for medical students; therefore, the present study<b...

A study was conducted for creating digital classrooms to support students to develop information literacy competency and critical thinking skills through domain knowledge learning in digital classrooms. A total of 107 students from four Secondary 1 classes were invited from a secondary school in Hong Kong to participate in the study. In the 13-week trial teaching, every three students shared a ...

This study measured the change in critical thinking skills of dental students educated in a problem-based learning (PBL) pedagogical method. The quantitative analysis was focused on measuring students' critical thinking skills achievement from their first through third years of dental education at the University of Southern California. This non-experimental evaluation was based on a volunteer s...

critical thinking has accompanied man since his creation. man steps toward critical thinking when he starts to evaluate a matter logically. today in order to develop critical thinking and the importance of placing it in scientific fields, several researches have been carried out. recently, babamohadi and khalili (2004) found that there is a significant difference between freshman and senior stu...

BACKGROUND This paper reports a study about the effect of knowledge sources, such as handbooks, an assessment format and a predefined record structure for diagnostic documentation, as well as the influence of knowledge, disposition toward critical thinking and reasoning skills, on the accuracy of nursing diagnoses.Knowledge sources can support nurses in deriving diagnoses. A nurse's disposition...

Saudi teachers are unsure how to include critical thinking into their classrooms.This study aimed at identifying the knowledge of regarding skills and exploring attitudes towards improving students’ skills. To identify if there statistically significant differences level significance (0.05) between response averages sample members about degree assessment self-critical due variables (specializat...

This article seeks to establish whether the poster presentation of a specific theme can facilitate the student's thinking skills in nursing education. A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual research design where twenty students volunteered to take part in the study by signing an informed consent was followed. Descriptive naïve sketches were used for data collection followed by i...

this study investigated the manifestation of bloom’s revised taxonomy (brt) in two series of young and adult teaching persian to speakers of other languages (tpsol) textbooks. to this end, the contents of the textbooks were analyzed based on a coding scheme. the results showed statistically significant differences between the different volumes of young learners’ series and between the two serie...