Teaching and measuring critical thinking.
Nurse educators are under pressure to show critical thinking as a program outcome. Many different strategies have been suggested for developing critical thinking among nursing students. It is easy to believe these strategies increase critical thinking, but not all have actually been measured for reliability or validity. Based on an exhaustive literature search, the author attempted to identify teaching strategies that are being used to increase critical thinking and how effective those strategies have been.
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Ohio University Zanesville, Zanesville, Ohio 43701, USA. staib@oak.cats.ohiou.edu
D002983:Clinical Competence; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006801:Humans; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009736:Nursing Process; D013338:Students, Nursing; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*; D013850:Thinking