Introduction: Team-based learning (TBL), is a form of cooperative learning which aims to create an active learning environment. It enhances the skills of individual accountability and teamwork, group interaction and motivation of those participating in group discussions. This study aimed to investigate the effect of team-based learning (TBL) on nursing students' critical thinking. Methods: T...

Introduction: Teachers' knowledge of self-directed learning and critical thinking are two predictors of learning in learners. This knowledge has impact on promotion of active learning process and academic achievement. This study evaluates the relation between tendency to critical thinking and self-direction in nursing and midwifery students and its role on their academic achievement. Methods: A...

Introduction: Today, philosophers have introduced the ultimate goal in higher education institutions as critical thinking skills. Thus this study was conducted to compare the critical thinking skills between years of education of bachelor students in Fasa University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This study was conducted on 150 Studying BSc students in various terms from Fasa University of Me...

Introduction: Improving students' critical thinking skills is clearly important in the context of growing human knowledge. The main goal of this research was to measure the contribution of critical thinking attitudes and learning cognitive styles in predicting the students’ academic achievement variance in Isfahan medical university. Methods: In this descriptive correlation study, population c...

 Background and Aim: Critical thinking helps to raise awareness and knowledg e growth by applying the mental processes such as analysis , inference and reasoning. So, it provides an appropriate context for problem solving as well as clear and accurate information-based decision making in different managerial and political areas. The aim of this study was to assess and compare academic librarian...

Abstract Background & Aim: Promoting students’ critical thinking (CT) skills has been an essential goal of higher education, especially in nursing education. Unstable clinical situation requires nurses with proper ability of decision making which needs critical thinking. Accordingly this study was conducted to evaluate the critical thinking skills of nursing students of Isfahan Univers...

  Background and Aims: Critical thinking is essential to nursing practice therefore, knowledge and understanding of nursing students' critical thinking is important to nurse educators. The purpose of this study was to determine critical thinking dispositions in baccalaureate nursing students.   Material and methods: It was a descriptive study. Research population was all baccalaurate nursing st...

in this research we have tried to examine the relation between critical thinking and identity styles. present research is correlation and its population is all the first grade high school students in Nazarabad. Its sample includes 320 first grade high school students in Nazarabad and they were chosen through multistage cluster sampling. California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST) and White...