Critical thinking, clinical reasoning, clinical decision making and clinical judgment, are used interchangeably in nursing literature. This presents a problem for nurses educating students to develop their clinical judgement. This paper reports on an integrative review undertaken to uncover whether it is feasible to continue using these concepts interchangeably. Data collection involved a searc...

Some soft and critical emancipatory systems approaches have relied on some version of the idea that in knowing, humans organise the content of experience by means of conceptual schemes. Based on this, they have further proposed ways of describing particular views and beliefs of persons involved in a situation of concern, with the purpose of proposing understanding and/or critique. Furthermore, ...

this study was an attempt to investigate the comparative impact of two types of teaching approaches, namely content-based (cbi) and task-based (tblt) instruction on the reading comprehension of iranian efl learners. for this purpose, sixty intermediate students from a pool of eighty five students studying at a private language school were chosen using a piloted pet. the students were then rando...

The ability to make decisions based on data, with its inherent uncertainties and variability, is a complex and vital skill in the modern world. The need for such quantitative critical thinking occurs in many different contexts, and although it is an important goal of education, that goal is seldom being achieved. We argue that the key element for developing this ability is repeated practice in ...

This study investigated the receptive and productive vocabulary command of learners based on their willingness to communicate (WTC) and critical thinking skill. The study also aimed to compare gifted and non-gifted learners in terms of the above-mentioned variables. To this end, 112 gifted and non-gifted Iranian EFL learners were picked out and given four instruments (W...

introduction: critical thinking skill is an essential factor for success in today’s rapidly developing world. the present study was carried out to compare the association between critical thinking disposition and academic achievement in preclinical and clinical medical students. methods: this study was descriptive-correlational in which the sample included 259 medical students at kermanshah uni...