Thirty Great Ways to Mess Up a Critical Thinking Test

A Thirty-First Way to Mess Up a Critical Thinking Test: A Critical Response to Facione

Peter Facione's generally well thoughtout set of suggestions for messing up a critical thinking test l overlooked one significant option for the construction of defective multiple-choice (hereinafter MC) tests: require the impossible. 2 Perhaps Facione was being intentionally devious, leaving this option to be discovered by the intrepid reader, but it appears that one of the MC items he uses to...

Improving critical thinking of students: A great challenge in clinical nursing education.

Introduction: With regards to the importance and role of critical thinking in nursing , especially in clinical setting, achieving this goal(improving critical thinking) is very important. So nursing teachers encounter with the challenge of how asisting their students for promoting the critical thinking skills especially in clinical setting. The aim of this study is investigating the ways of im...

User Interfaces : Mess them up !

Today's graphical user interfaces simulate a perfect world. Windows have always the same look and buttons have identical shapes and colors and are aligned to regular grids. The only distinction between graphical elements is their label. The current visual design of user interfaces ignores the capabilities of modern displays for an e ective visual coding and the resulting uniformness makes it ve...

Two ways to make great contributions.

Critical Thinking about 'critical Thinking'