STUDENTS’ THINKING PROCESS IN CREATING SCHEMATIC REPRESENTATION

Compression the Effect of Clinical Concept Mapping & Nursing Process in Developing Nursing Students’ Critical Thinking Skills

Introduction: Development of critical thinking and clinical education has remained a serious and considerable challenge throughout the nursing educational system in Iran. Education experts believe that effective teaching methods such as concept mapping and nursing process are practical strategies for critical development. Thus, this study was carried out to compare the effectiveness of clinical...

The Potential Benefits of Multimedia Information Representation in Enhancing Students’ Critical Thinking and History Reasoning

This paper discusses the potential benefits of an interactive multimedia information representation in enhancing students’ critical thinking aligned with history reasoning in learning history amongst Secondary School students in Malaysia. Two modes of multimedia information representation were implemented; chronologic and thematic information representations. A qualitative study of an unstructu...

Representation of Ethical Components in Cognitive Strategies for Re-creating Work-Life Balance

Background: Considering the necessity of studying the phenomenon of work-life balance and the individual initiatives of the employees of the organizations in order to achieve it, the present research pursues the goal of discovering and representing the cognitive strategies of work-life balance among the academic staff members of the university. Government agencies of Northeast Iran have tried t...

Language, perception, and the schematic representation of spatial relations.

Schemas are abstract nonverbal representations that parsimoniously depict spatial relations. Despite their ubiquitous use in maps and diagrams, little is known about their neural instantiation. We sought to determine the extent to which schematic representations are neurally distinguished from language on the one hand, and from rich perceptual representations on the other. In patients with eith...

Critical Thinking for Engineering Students