Clearing up “Critical Thinking”: Its Four Formidable Features

Clinical decision making: its relation with critical thinking

Introduction: Clinical decision making as a fundamental part of nursing profession effects ‎quality of nursing care the most. Nurse as a clinical decision maker uses critical thinking in ‎providing proficient care. Evaluation of data and choosing proper intervention to reach a ‎correct decision needs skillful thinking. Present studies related to critical thinking and clinical ‎d...

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Critical Thinking: Its Nature, Measurement, and Improvement

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...

Critical Thinking

Introduction: One of the main goals of education is thinking development. Thinking about thinking for improving the thinking process is the heart of critical thinking. This paper aimed to provide different definitions of critical thinking. Methods: This review was conducted on some published articles during 1990 to 2007 in the field of critical thinking Results: Various experts have used dif...

The Effect of Teaching Critical Thinking Strategies on Students’ Academic Writing, Critical Thinking Ability, and Critical Thinking Dispositions

This study intended to investigate the interplay of critical thinking explicit instruction, academic writing performance, critical thinking ability, and critical thinking dispositions of Iranian students. To this end, 140 students of Jahrom University of Medical Sciences (73 males and 67 females) were selected. They were divided into the experimental and control groups. Both groups received ins...