BACKGROUND Critical thinking is an important characteristic to develop in respiratory care students. METHODS We used the short-form Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal instrument to measure critical-thinking ability in 55 senior respiratory care students in a baccalaureate respiratory care program. We calculated the Pearson correlation coefficient to assess the relationships between cri...

Although, Problem Based Learning (PBL) has a strong theoretical supports from the literature, to date there has been many PBL research resulted with unexpected findings, leading to a conflict on the effect of PBL on students’ critical thinking ability. In this review, the authors investigated the theoretical relation, as well as reviewed the recent empirical evidence on the effect of PBL on stu...

The concept of critical thinking was featured in taxonomies a few decades ago. Critical thinking is a complex process that requires higher levels of cognitive skills in the processing of information. The teachers’ perceptions of critical thinking among students influence their behaviors in the classroom. It has been found that teachers perceive they are teaching critical thinking to their stude...

This study investigated the correlation between critical thinking ability and academic achievement in mathematics among 200 Senior Secondary School Two (SS2) students Orlu Education Zone Imo State, Nigeria. The researchers utilized a correlational design employed multi-stage but simple random sampling technique to select sample. Data were collected using two instruments: Watson-Glaser Critical ...