Background & Objective: The development of critical thinking skills, which is hugely affected by personality traits, was always a puzzling educational subject. This study aimed to elaborate on the relationship of critical thinking according to the Five-Factor Model (FFM) through metacognition mediation among students of the Aja University of Medical Sciences. Materials & Methods: The sample po...

 Introduction: The twenty-first century is a new era of permanent changes in the scientific and medical practices. Critical thinking is essential to solve complex systems' problems. This study aims to investigate critical thinking skills of dental students of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences.Methods: This is a cross sectional descriptive study. Sixty four dental students enr...

a study of critical thinking skills in children's fictions                m. kokabi*                                               a. horri**          shahid chamran university of ahvaz           tehran university l. maktabifard*** shahid chamran university of ahvaz abstract critical thinking as a way of thinking affects our attitudes and behaviors. it includes skills like the ability t...

the application of a comprehensive model of communicative language ability (cla) to language teaching and testing has always been an imperative in l2 education since hymess proposal of communicative competence in the 1970s. recent l2 research has clearly underscored the importance of sufficient pragmatics representation as an essential component of cla in pedagogical and testing practices in l2...

Abstract Objective: To compare the effectiveness of memory work and critical thinking training of children's movement regulation with special methods. Method: The current research was a semi-experimental research with a pre-test, post-test and control group design. The statistical population included all students aged 9 to 12 who referred to the center for special problems in Tabriz distri...

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...

language learning courseware has been receiving growing attention by english educators since its advent. a variety of softwares have been designed by software designers and resorted to by language educators to supplement language textbooks. this experimental study investigated how the application of computerized version of language textbooks and the reception of the entire course through comput...

as far as bandura’s (1977) conceptualization of the sense of self-efficacy is concerned, it is argued to be context- and even task-specific, compared to other concepts like self-esteem (brown, 2000); therefore, upon the previous research studies, related theories and definitions, and the ideas and views obtained from the interviews conducted with the scholars, the current research study aimed a...