Little research has been conducted to examine the effect of preceptor behaviors on the critical thinking of new graduate nurses in the intensive care unit (ICU). This study explored the perceptions of new graduates on the effect of preceptor behaviors and strategies on the development of their critical thinking skills, using a qualitative exploratory descriptive design. Data were collected with...

Most recommendation systems are trained to predict behavioral data and then used to generate more such data by recommending items and receiving feedback on the quality of these recommendations. This data in then fed back into the training process. This creates a feedback loop: as long as the lowcost way to interact with the service is through the recommender, the recommender will only ever see ...

This paper describes an innovative scenario in teaching digital electronics at technical high schools. The course designed to improve students’ applied logic ability, practical thinking, creative thinking, and critical thinking. The students work in teams in order to solve initially simple technical problems by using simulations and by comparing various circuits, and then more complex technical...

The aim of this study was to identify the critical thinking skills utilized in the nursing diagnosis process. This was an exploratory descriptive study conducted with seven nursing students on the application of a clinical case to identify critical thinking skills, as well as their justifications in the nursing diagnosis process. Content analysis was performed to evaluate descriptive data. Six ...

Weblog is an Internet tool that is believed to possess great potential to facilitate learning in education. This study wants to know if weblog can be used to promote students’ critical thinking. It used a group of secondary two students from a Singapore school to write weblogs as a means of substitution for their traditional handwritten assignments. The topics for the weblogging are taken from ...

Agile software development methods reduce project costs and development time by simultaneously enhancing quality. But despite these advantages, agile principles are rarely adopted by the whole organization. In order to gain a deeper understanding of this issue, we conducted an initial exploratory qualitative case study in one medium-sized company. The goal of this study was to find out whether ...

It is observed that majority of recent studies on cognitive learning are dealing with metacognition. Metacognition is used to follow and regulate cognitive processes such as learning, problem solving, comprehension, reasoning and memory. Therefore, it is possible to gather all information about a problem encountered by the individuals, including its solution, comprehension of its outline or ess...

A mixed-method exploratory approach was employed to examine the relationship between epistemological beliefs and quality of thinking when participants first thought about an ill-structured problem alone, and then with another person in a dyad. The results showed that there was not a systematic connection between epistemological beliefs and ill-structured problem solving in either solo or paired...

In order to heighten the effectiveness of web-based exploratory learning, we have designed and implemented adaptive link generation that facilitates multiperspective thinking about learning topics on the web. Our adaptive link generation, which works on free-hyperlink environment where learners can create new hyperlinks independent of static hyperlink and share the new hyperlinks on the web, re...