BACKGROUND While most modern research focuses on the clinical benefits of mindfulness, an emerging body of work suggests that mindfulness can facilitate self-regulation of everyday thinking in typically developing individuals. This behaviour is best captured using critical thinking assessments. The aim of this paper is to describe a rigorous, pre-registered study which will investigate the effe...

Developing L2 learners' intercultural sensitivity and reflective thinking is essential for second language learning. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the impact of photovoice on intercultural sensitivity and reflective thinking. To this end, a sample of 48 intermediate EFL learners was recruited from an English language institute in Isfahan, Iran and placed into a photovoice group (PG) and...

Background: Ethical reasoning and critical thinking have an effective role in adapting to the environmental and educational conditions in students. Accordingly, identifying the factors affecting them is essential. By understanding this important issue, this study aims to investigate impact of education through infographic on ethical reasoning and critical thinking in heavenly gift lesson. Meth...

The aim of this paper is to highlight the role of group decision and group thinking in the organization of a firm, taking as reference theoretical models and their practical applications. Organizational goals are often blocked by a pattern of thinking that develops within organizations. The article will also underline the importance of organizations' focusing on sub-goals, in order to reach, fi...

Introduction: thinking method is considered as a basic requirement in clinical decisions and professional competency in healthcare services. Therefore, the extant study was conducted to discover talented students and identify the role of each of the factors affecting the position of critical thinking among students of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences during 2015. Methodology: 280 student...

Teaching and assessing critical thinking have great professional benefit to nursing education (Daley, 1996, Facione, 1996). Major issues still center on and are discussed by nurse educators about the importance of teaching strategies that enhance critical thinking skills and measurements of critical thinking (Adams, 1999; Daley, Shaw, & Balistrieri, 1999; Facione & Facione, 1997). The purposes ...

This paper reports on action research activities during 2000-2001, involving first-year engineering students in an extended study programme of the School of Engineering at the University of Pretoria. Students in the participating group were enrolled for a support course aimed at facilitating the fundamental concepts underpinning a study in calculus as well as complementing the development of pe...

Background: There is a relationship between the primary dysmenorrhea and psychological variables. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of positive thinking and self-compassion training on cognitive flexibility and cognitive failure in girls with primary dysmenorrhea. Materials & Methods: This is a quasi-experimental study carried out on multiple groups wi...