Introduction: The current world needs people who have a lot of different abilities such as cognition and application of different ways of thinking, research, problem solving, critical thinking skills and creativity. In addition to critical thinking, learning styles is another key factor which has an essential role in the process of problem solving. This study aimed to determine the relationship...

This study provides an analysis of how the term “critical thinking” has been defined by authors articles published in Journal Media Literacy Education. It answers to three questions: (1) How frequently is mentioned scholars who write about media literacy?; (2) In what ways do convey meaning term?; and (3) To extent presented with a consistent meaning? While appeared more than half examined, the...

relationship between critical thinking dispositions and academic achivement in urmia secondary school students     vahdat r [1] , zeinali a [2] , ahmadi doyran z [3] *     received: 2 sep, 2011 accepted: 5 dec, 2011     abstract   background& aims : these days critical thinking has been introduced as the main output of education by field experts. they notice teaching of thinking as a principal ...

This article is a slightly summarised version of an invited plenary at the 3rd Aegean Seminar which took place at the Greek island of Samos in July 1992. The original title was “An Interpretive Systemological View of the Issue: ‘Environmental Fluctuations and Cultural Change in Island Societies`.” It is an hermeneutical inquiry into the interpretive context that provides full meaning to the iss...

This study determined whether there was any significant relation between EFL student’s critical thinking and their translation quality. To this end, 60 male and female translation students took part in the study. The participants were chosen from among senior BA students and junior MA students. The subjects were given a translation production test and a critical thinking questionnaire (Honey, 2...

this article, first, examined the role of efl university students' critical thinking (ct) in their self-efficacy beliefs. second, the role of gender as a moderating factor in the relationship between students' ct and self-efficacy beliefs was investigated. third, the difference between females and males regarding their ct and efficacy beliefs was studied. to attain the goals of the research, 86...