background: the aim of this study was to investigate the ability of iranian medical and dental students in thinking critically and to assess their ability in using definite components of critical thinking (ct). methods: multistage cluster sampling was utilized to recruit 125 preclinical (1st, 2nd and 3rd year of study) students in yazd shaheed sadoughi university of medical sciences in yazd, ir...

The present study attempted to discover whether there is a significant relationship between EFL teachers' critical thinking ability and their teaching success.To this end, 113 Iranian male and female English teachers were required to fill out Watson Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal. Besides, their students were asked to answer the Characteristics of Successful EFL Teachers questionnaire. The ...

the present study aims to determine the psychometric characteristics of the watson–glaser critical thinking test among employees in the iranian national oil company. for this purpose, 380 employees referred to ‘the assessment center’in 1390-91 were selected through random sampling method  . the research method is a descriptive – instrument maling one. in which two tests were used:  1)watson–gla...

we studied the effects of using reflective action approach (raa) on critical thinking of students and teachers. the research method was a semi-experimental and factorial design (2×2). the subjects were 93 students from tabriz teachers education colleges of which 46 students and teachers (24 female and 22 male) formed the experimental group to receive raa and 47 students and teachers (25 female ...

the purpose of this research is to evaluate students’ critical thinking at ferdowsi university of mashhad. a total of 144 questionnaires were sent to undergraduate students to assess their critical thinking skills. in this research, the watson-glaser critical thinking appraisal has been used as of critical thinking’s tool that contains 80 item questions across a series of five test exercises an...

A study was conducted to assess the relationship between critical thinking and belief in the paranormal. 180 students from three departments (psychology, arts, computer science) completed one measure of reasoning, the Paranormal Belief Scale (Tobacyk & Milford, 1983), and a scale of paranormal experiences. Half of the subjects filled out the Cornell Critical Thinking Test (Ennis & Millmann, 198...

CAI patient care simulations provide an opportunity for students to make clinical decisions without the anxiety experienced in a clinical setting or the risk of harm to clients. The investigators used CAI for one semester with 26 third year students as an adjunct to a clinical course in a baccalaureate nursing program. Student attitude and critical thinking skills were measured using the Allen'...

While districts striving to build citizenries of critical thinkers require leaders who possess and model thinking skills (Sherblom, 2010), popular research in the field has established that even in professionals, skilled critical thinking only develops through deliberate practice and in predictable stages (Elder & Paul, 2010). Therefore, emerging education leaders are expected to hone their cri...