Developing Linguistic Competence and Critical Thinking Skills Through Cooperative Learning: An Assessment

Developing critical thinking skills.

As a student and teacher of adult education in nursing, the writer could not help but be interested in the way adults learn. Over the years this interest had extended to curriculum development. The curriculum models which were explored and even those designed by the writer over the years seemed to provide the structure needed for effective teaching and learning situations but what was not reali...

Workshop - Assessing and developing critical thinking skills

Steps for Better Thinking, provides a useful conceptual framework for developmental learning as well as providing appropriate curricular strategies for helping students’ transition from one stage to the next. Conceptually, students require the foundational skills or knowledge base necessary in order to successfully transition from one developmental level to the next. Further, this foundational ...

Promoting Critical Thinking Skills Through Problem-Based Learning

T objectives of this study were to compare the critical thinking skills before and after the implementation of the problem-based learning (PBL) approach among Chinese baccalaureate nursing students and to describe students’ comments on PBL. A quasi-experimental pre-test/ post-test design was conducted. Through purposive sampling, twenty-three second-year baccalaureate nursing students were invi...

the influence of social and cultural capital on efl students critical thinking skills

the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capital and efl students’ critical thinking skills. this study takes this relationship in to account to see if people with different sociocultural status are different regarding their critical thinking skills. to this end, 160 university students majoring in english language and literature, english trans...

The Comparative Effect of Practicing Cooperative Learning and Critical Thinking on EFL Learners’ Writing