How to teach critical thinking: an experimental study with three different approaches.

The aim of this study was to examine the effects of critical thinking (CT) teaching involving general, immersion, and mixed approaches on the CT skills and dispositions of high-school students. The study, which had three experimental groups (EG) and one control group, employed a pretest-posttest control-group quasi-experimental design. CT teaching was initiated with a general approach in EG I, an immersion approach in EG II, and a mixed approach in EG III. The Critical Thinking Skill Test and UF/EMI Critical Thinking Disposition Instrument were used to collect the data. General, immersion, and mixed approaches improved CT skills and dispositions, with a large effect size for the improvement of CT skills. CT teaching with general, immersion, and mixed approaches had large, moderate, and small effects, respectively, on improving CT dispositions. In terms of improving CT skills and dispositions, the most effective approach, respectively, was the general, mixed, and immersion approach.

Research on the cultivation of sustainable development ability of higher vocational students by creative thinking teaching method.

Education for sustainable development (ESD) is an important guideline for United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Students' creative thinking can be applied to various disciplines, promoting sustainable learning. Most of Taiwan's beauty and hairdressing technical education teachers mainly teach students to imitate, and students' works lack creativity and thinking. A total of 43 higher vocational college students participated, 23 of whom were in the experimental group using the creative thinking teaching method and 20 of whom were in the control group using the traditional teaching method. The results show that the creative thinking teaching method can effectively improve students' learning outcomes in the multimedia material creation course, including breaking through the limitation of thinking, putting forward different ideas and answers, and constantly innovating, to make the presented results more creative and meaningful. The creative thinking teaching methods solve students' trouble in creative problem solving, enhance students' problem solving and critical thinking skills, and improve students' involvement in the study.

[Using Creative Thinking Teaching to Improve Abdominal Drainage Tube Care Integrity Among Two-Year Post Graduate Nurses (PGNs)].

BACKGROUND & PROBLEMS: The abdominal drainage tube is an important device used in disease treatment and life maintenance. Drainage tube slippage leads to complications that increase both length of stay and costs of care. Four and seven cases of drainage tube slippage were reported, respectively, in 2018 and 2019 in our trauma wards. Among these, 9 cases were under the care of nurses in their post graduate year (PGY) training program. PURPOSE: To increase to 94% the abdominal drainage tube care-completeness rate of nurses in the PGY program. METHODS: Methods used included: establishing a standardized care module for abdominal drainage tube in the trauma wards, using the "drainage tube model" and multimedia teaching material in education to enhance skill proficiency, flexibly adjusting education schedules, using a creative-thinking teaching model in education, employing direct observation to evaluate PGY nurses' abdominal drainage tube skills; and establishing a drainage tube skill proficiency audit mechanism. RESULTS: After the intervention, the rate of care completeness for the abdominal drainage tube rose to 98.1%, participant awareness rose to 100%, and the rate of abdominal drainage tube slippage reduced to 0%. CONCLUSIONS: This project achieved good outcomes that may be expanded horizontally to other surgical wards. The use of the creative-thinking teaching model in training activities received good feedback from the nurse participants and will be incorporated into in-service education standards along with the computerized direct observation of procedural skills in the PGY e-learning passport to strengthen the completeness of learning processes.

Referenciais teóricos e instrumentos para avaliação do pensamento crítico na enfermagem e na educação / Referencias teóricas e instrumentos para la evaluación del pensamiento crítico en la enfermería y en la educación / Theoretical frameworks and instruments for evaluation of critical thinking in nursing and education

Resumo OBJETIVO Identificar referenciais teóricos e instrumentos para a avaliação do pensamento crítico a fim de embasar estudos na enfermagem e educação. MÉTODO Revisão integrativa, com busca de artigos científicos nos idiomas português, inglês e espanhol, nas bases de dados LILACS, SCIELO, IBECS, MEDLINE/PubMed e SCOPUS, utilizando os descritores: "pensamento", "ensino" e "enfermagem" ou os respectivos termos em inglês. Encontraram-se 3147 artigos; foram selecionados 23 artigos publicados entre 2010 e 2015. RESULTADOS 14 (60,2%) estudos analisados utilizaram o referencial de Facione para o embasamento das pesquisas. Identificaram-se 8 (34,4%) estudos utilizando diferentes instrumentos de avaliação do pensamento crítico, aplicados na enfermagem e educação. CONCLUSÕES A maioria dos estudos analisados utilizou o referencial de Facione. Dos instrumentos de avaliação, houve destaque do California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST) e Watson - Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal; em relação às habilidades de pensamento crítico, ambos concentram a avaliação nas habilidades cognitivas de pensamento crítico.

Resumen OBJETIVO Identificar referencias teóricas e instrumentos para la evaluación del pensamiento crítico a fin de basar estudios en la enfermería y educación. MÉTODO Revisión integrativa, con búsqueda de artículos científicos en los idiomas portugués, inglés y español, en las bases de datos LILACS, SCIELO, IBECS, MEDLINE/PubMed y SCOPUS, utilizando los descriptores: "pensamiento", "enseñanza" y "enfermería" sus términos en inglés. Se encontraron 3147 artículos; se seleccionaron 23 artículos publicados entre 2010 y 2015. RESULTADOS 14 (60,2%) estudios analizados utilizaron el referencial de Facione para el embasamiento de las investigaciones. Se identificaron 8 (34,4%) estudios utilizando diferentes instrumentos de evaluación del pensamiento crítico, aplicados en la enfermería y educación. CONCLUSIONES La mayoría de los estudios analizados utilizó el referencial de Facione. De los instrumentos de evaluación, hubo destaque de las pruebas de rendimiento de las pruebas de California (CCTST) y Watson - Glaser Crítical Thinking Rate; en relación a las habilidades de pensamiento crítico, ambos concentran la evaluación en las habilidades cognitivas de pensamiento crítico.

Abstract OBJECTIVE To identify theoretical frameworks and instruments for the evaluation of critical thinking to base studies in nursing and education. METHOD Integrative review, with a selection of scientific articles in Portuguese, English and Spanish, in the LILACS, SCIELO, IBECS, MEDLINE/PubMed and SCOPUS databases, using the descriptors "thought", "teaching" and "nursing" in Portuguese and English. The search resulted in 3,147 articles, and 23 papers published between 2010 and 2015 were selected. RESULTS Fourteen (60.2%) studies used the Facione framework and eight (34.4%) resorted to different critical thinking assessment tools applied in nursing and education. CONCLUSIONS Most studies used the Facione framework. Among the evaluation tools, the California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST) and the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal stood out as the most common instruments; both focus on cognitive skills in critical thinking.