Purpose: The purpose of the present research is to review the effectiveness of philosophy education program for children on critical thinking and its components in elementary fourth-grader girl students. Material and method: This was a semi-experimental study with designing pretest and posttest and the control group with following-up phase. Findings: This statistical population consists of elem...

Background and objective: Identifying factors affecting students' academic achievement and paying attention to them is a step toward sustainable development. The aim of this study is predicting academic achievement through components of critical thinking and some sociodemographic variables. Materials and Method: 114 first-year medical student of Tehran University of Medical Sciences participat...

Introduction: Patient safety is one of the main components of health service quality, and patient safety culture is considered as one of the necessary factors in promotion of the patients’ safety. On the other hand, the application of critical thinking skills, by developing evidence-based practices, leads to positive outcomes in patients. This study aims to determine the relationship between c...

the present study aimed at exploring cognitions of iranian english teachers within the context of english for academic purposes (eap). to this end, the cognitions of two groups of eap teachers with respect to their pedagogical content knowledge (pck) and their sense of professional identity (pi) were probed. two language teachers and two content instructors who had at least five years of eap te...