scholarly journals Critical Thinking Dispositions and Self-esteem among Nursing Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-16
Author(s):  
Hng Siew Hong ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Nursing Student ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Thinking Skill ◽  
Critical Thinking Skill ◽  
Critical Thinking Disposition ◽  
Thinking Dispositions ◽  
Critical Thinking Dispositions ◽  
Thinking Disposition

Critical thinking skill is an important skill for nurses to make a better clinical decision in providing safe care. Critical thinking dispositions development is supported with sufficient self-esteem. The present study aimed to measure the level of critical thinking disposition and self-esteem among undergraduate nursing students in a public university in Malaysia. A cross-sectional study was carried out in a university involving 99 students. Data were collected by self-report questionnaires and analysed quantitatively. A total of 97% of the nursing student had a high level of critical thinking dispositions. Almost¾3/4 of the students had a moderate level of perceived self-esteem (74.7%). The critical thinking dispositions were significantly related to perceived self-esteem (p<0.044). Overall, the nursing student of this study had high critical thinking disposition and moderate self-esteem, which is very important for them to become a good nurse with critical thinking skill in the future.

scholarly journals Relationship Between The Student Nurses’ Critical Thinking Dispositions and Autonomy Levels

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehmet Günay Uyar ◽  
Şefika Dilek Güven
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Student Nurses ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Critical Thinking Disposition ◽  
Critical Thinking Dispositions ◽  
Thinking Disposition ◽  
Number Percentage

INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between nursing students’ critical thinking disposition and autonomy levels. METHODS: The descriptive-relationship seeking study was conducted with 288 nursing students in the nursing department of a state university. Data were collected by using the Descriptive Characteristics Information Form, which included socio-demographic characteristics, California Critical Thinking Disposition Scale and Sociotropy-Autonomy Scale. Data were analyzed by number, percentage, mean, standard deviation and Pearson correlation tests. RESULTS: It was found that the students’ mean autonomy subscale of Sociotropy-Autonomy Scale score was 87.43±11.27 and the overall mean score of critical thinking disposition was 232.52±23.30. There was a statistically significant positive correlation between the students› overall mean scores of California Critical Thinking Disposition Scale and autonomy subscale scores of Sociotropy-Autonomy Scale (r = 0.526, p <0.010). DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: In the study, the autonomy levels of the students were above the middle level; critical thinking disposition levels were low; There was a positive relationship between critical thinking disposition and autonomy levels. The results of the study suggest that nursing education curricula should be revised and restructured in order to raise students’ critical thinking and autonomy levels in nursing education.

scholarly journals A prospective study on the development of critical thinking skills for student prosthetists and orthotists in Hong Kong

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Man Sang Wong
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Thinking Skill ◽  
Critical Thinking Skill ◽  
Critical Thinking Disposition ◽  
Positive Tendency ◽  
Thinking Disposition

Critical thinking skill is considered to be one of the important attributes to nurture students to cope with the challenges coming from this ever-changing world. The training of critical thinking skill could be quite different from the conventional education. Thus, special arrangements should be considered in the curriculum design and effective assessment method should be employed to test the subsequent learning outcome. This study was to evaluate prospectively the development of critical thinking disposition of the student prosthetists and orthotists in Hong Kong and a validated instrument, the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (CCTDI) was used. The results showed that there was significant improvement in 5 out of the 7 domains, namely Truthseeking, Open-mindedness, Systematicity, Analyticity, Critical thinking self-confidence, Inquisitiveness and Maturity of judgment in 3 years' time. Further curriculum enhancements were suggested as the sum of all the domains was just slightly above the threshold of positive tendency.

Relationship Between Critical Thinking Disposition and Self-esteem in Bachelor Nursing Students

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 973-978
Author(s):  
Motahare Pilevarzadeh ◽  
Fatemeh Mashayekhi ◽  
Motahare Faramarzpoor ◽  
Malihe Beigzade
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Critical Thinking Disposition ◽  
Thinking Disposition

scholarly journals THE RELATION BETWEEN TEACHERS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES AND CRITICAL THINKING DISPOSITIONS

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 717-731
Author(s):  
Gokhan Guven ◽  
Nevin Kozcu Cakir
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Critical Thinking Disposition ◽  
Thinking Dispositions ◽  
Critical Thinking Dispositions ◽  
Thinking Disposition

In this research, it was aimed to explore the relation between attitude towards renewable energy sources and critical thinking disposition. For this purpose, relational survey model was used in the research. The research group consisted of 468 prospective teachers studying in faculty of education in a public university in the fall semester of 2018-2019 academic year. Renewable Energy Sources Attitude Scale in order to evaluate prospective teachers' attitudes towards renewable energy sources, and Critical Thinking Disposition Scale for evaluating critical thinking dispositions were used. In the research, the relation between the data set for attitude towards renewable energy sources comprising of variables which are application request, importance of education, country interest, environmental awareness and investments and the data set for critical thinking disposition comprising of variables which are metacognition, flexibility, systematicity, tenacity-patience, open-mindedness by the canonical analysis. As a result of the canonical correlation analysis, a significant relation was found between the attitudes towards renewable energy sources and the critical thinking dispositions and it was found that the common variance shared between the data sets was 22.23%. Keywords: renewable energy, critical thinking disposition, prospective teachers, relational survey model.

scholarly journals Critical Thinking Disposition: The Effects of Infusion Approach in Engineering Drawing

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norazlinda Mohd Darby ◽  
Abdullah Mat Rashid
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Treatment Group ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Engineering Drawing ◽  
Higher Order Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Disposition ◽  
Thinking Dispositions ◽  
Critical Thinking Dispositions ◽  
Thinking Disposition

Critical Thinking Disposition is known as an important factor that drives a student to use Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) in order to solve engineering drawing problems. Infusing them while teaching the subject may enhance students’ disposition and higher order thinking skills. However, no research has been done in critical thinking disposition while teaching engineering drawing. The current study is to evaluate how critical thinking disposition infused in Engineering Drawing affected students’ thinking disposition. Quasi-experimental with non-equivalent control group design was conducted on the groups from two different Technical Matriculation College for 8 weeks. Two teaching methods, which are Conventional approach and Infusion Approach, were used while teaching Engineering Drawing for control group and treatment group. Control group with 29 students and treatment group consist of 31 students were selected as samples. Pre-test shows that there is no significant different in critical thinking dispositions between control group and treatment group. However, the result in post-test shows that treatment group was significantly higher in critical thinking dispositions compared to control group.

scholarly journals DEVELOPING AN ARGUMENT-BASED SCIENCE TEXTBOOK FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO IMPROVE STUDENT’S CRITICAL THINKING DISPOSITION AND CRITICAL THINKING SKILL

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
I Ketut Sudiana
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Thinking Skill ◽  
Critical Thinking Skill ◽  
Text Book ◽  
Critical Thinking Disposition ◽  
Thinking Disposition

This study was aimed at producing an argument-based science teaching textbook for junior high school students to improve student’s critical thinking disposition and critical thinking skill. This text book was produced by following Borg and Gall’s (1983). Research and development model for three years. The first year research collected information (need analysis) used to design the draft of the product in the form of argument-based science text book for junior high school to improve student’s disposition and critical thinking skill. The product of the first year research was in the form of a draft of the argument-based science textbook. The second year research tried out the argument-based science text book for junior high school in a limited scope, conducted in three SMP’s in Bali province. This try-out used pretest-posttest one group design. The number of students involved in the second year research was 88 students. The result of the second year research showed that the argument-based science text book for junior high school could improve students’ disposition skill by 21.48% and critical thinking skill by 57.22%. The third year research tried out the argument-based science text book for junior high on a large scale in three SMP’s in Bali province. The study used the pretest--posttest one group design. The number of students involved was 194 students, the control group and experiment group had 97 students respectively.  As the comparison the text book entitled Buku Ajar IPA SMP Kurikulum 2013 was used. The data obtained from this third year research were in the form of scores for critical thinking disposition and critical thinking skill. These data were analyzed using multivariate covariance analysis at 5% level of significance. The large scale tries out in the third year was aimed at determining the effectiveness of the argument-based science teaching textbook for junior high school to improve student’s disposition and critical thinking skill. The results showed that there was a significant effect of the argument-based science teaching text book for junior high school students to improve student’s disposition and critical thinking skill on the student’s critical thinking disposition and critical thinking skill both simultaneously and partially or individually. Based on the test of means difference, the argument-based science teaching text book for junior high school students was better than Buku Ajar IPA SMP Kurikulum 2013 in improving the student’s critical thinking disposition and critical thinking skill both simultaneously and partially.

Translation and Validation of a Turkish Version of the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gökhan İskifoğlu ◽  
Ali Sidki Ağazade
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Turkish Version ◽  
Critical Thinking Disposition ◽  
Thinking Dispositions ◽  
Cross Cultural Comparison ◽  
Critical Thinking Dispositions ◽  
Turkish University Students ◽  
Thinking Disposition

In this study, we translated into Turkish and carried out a validation process of the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (CCTDI; Facione, 1990), a multidimensional inventory of students' evaluation of critical thinking dispositions. The goals were to translate the CCTDI into Turkish, assess the psychometric properties, and examine the factorial validity of the hypothesized 7-factor model through confirmatory factor analysis, with a view to using this instrument for assessment in teacher education programs in Turkey. Based on data from 583 Turkish university students, the translated Turkish version of the CCTDI displayed positive psychometric properties, thus supporting the applicability of the CCTDI in the Turkish educational context. However, analysis of the factorial structure produced a poor fit of the hypothesized multidimensional model of the CCTDI to the observed data. The results of further analysis, based on the modification indices, provided support for the use, for cross-cultural comparison, of a 4-factor model with a reduced number of items.

Critical Thinking Dispositions: Their Nature and Assessability

1996 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert H. Ennis
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Critical Thinking Disposition ◽  
Thinking Dispositions ◽  
Critical Thinking Dispositions ◽  
Subject Specificity ◽  
Thinking Disposition

Assuming that critical thinking dispositions are at least as important as critical thinking abilities, Ennis examines the concept of critical thinking disposition and suggests some criteria for judging sets of them. He considers a leading approach to their analysis and offers as an alternative a simpler set, including the disposition to seek alternatives and be open to them. After examining some gender-bias and subject-specificity challenges to promoting critical thinking dispositions, he notes some difficulties involved in assessing critical thinking dispositions, and suggests an exploratory attempt to assess them.

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