Background and Aim: Critical thinking is a skill on which learner can achieve teaching goal during an  active  mental process only after receiving key point from teacher . This valuable skill is not considered as it should be in dental students, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, when theoretical courses are held online therefore, the present study was conducted to evaluate the critical t...

Introduction: Critical thinking has been always the subject of discussion by teachers and educational centers. Considering the extensive and serious approach to critical thinking, this study was performed to investigate the application of critical thinking by basic sciences students in facing scientific texts, in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Methods: In this experimental study medi...

Introduction: Educational Bybee and Ganiye educational model are among the teaching methods that seem to play a role in strengthening this category of thinking skills; therefore, the present study was conducted to comparethe effectiveness of the educational model Bybee and Ganiye educational model on critical thinking and creative thinking of second-year female students. Methods: The statistica...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of teaching courage behavior skills on critical thinking and happiness among high school students in Bushehr. The research method is a quasi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test design. The statistical population of this study was 8238 secondary school students in Bushehr. 40 students were selected through multistage clus...

Introduction: Improving self-regulation strategies is one of the most important purposes in medical education in the century of information. This study aims to investigate relationship between critical thinking and information literacy with self-regulation strategies of Nursing School at Razi Medical Science University in the academic year of 2014-2015. Materials and Methods:  This stud...

Introduction: Critical thinking is an essential part of clinical decision making and professional competence of nurses. One of the proposed ways to create such traits in students is their education with an active and problem-oriented method such as problem based learning. This study was conducted to determine the effect of problem based learning training on critical thinking skills of four...

Introduction: The concept mapping method has been used in nursing education for many years; However, limited studies have examined its effect on critical thinking skills and nursing care program design. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of concept mapping method on critical thinking skills and nursing care program in nursing students. Methods: This two- group educational trial...

Introduction & Objective: Critical thinking is simply defined as ability for analysis and evaluation of information. Today, this skill is considered as an undeniable necessity for social life. So fostering critical thinking ability is one of the basic goals of different levels of education from primary school to higher education. Each conscious behavior is related to the theoretical and intel...