...board exams. Time restraint is one factor why students failed in their academic performances Hypotheses The hypotheses for this study were as follows: H 1: There is a correlation between scores of associate degree nursing students on a general test of critical thinking skills, the CCTST, and a discipline specific critical thinking test, the Arnett CTOE tool, in the following ways: a. There is a positive correlation between the total scores of associate degree nursing students on the CCTST and the total scores of the Arnett CTOE tool. b. There is a positive correlation between the analysis subscale scores of associate degree nursing students on the CCTST and the combined analysis and interpretation subscale scores of the Arnett CTOE tool.5 c. There is a positive correlation between the evaluation subscale scores of associate degree nursing students on the CCTST and the combined evaluation and explanation subscale scores on the Arnett CTOE tool. d. There is a positive correlation between scores of associate degree nursing students on the inference subscale scores on the CCTST and the inference subscale scores on the Arnett CTOE tool. H 2: Intervening variables are associated with critical thinking in associate degree nursing students in the following...
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...Critical Thinking Application Paper MGT 350 April 10, 2011 Harry Derderian Critical Thinking Application Report Critical thinking is a term that we have all heard from our parents, teachers, managers or friends. However, I doubt that many of us have really taken the time to fully understand what it means and why it is so important. The purpose of this report is to gain an understanding of what critical thinking means and why it is so fundamentally important that we conscientiously practice and use critical thinking skills every day. This task will be accomplished by using a work place example and outlining the benefits of the critical thinking process. Critical Thinking Defined The quick and easy way to define critical thinking is to research it on-line. For instance, according to the website, Dictionary.com, critical thinking is defined as “the mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion”. This definition is a good start, but we must explore it on a deeper level to fully understand critical thinking. According to Facione (2011), an international group of experts were asked to define critical thinking. The team came up with a few conclusions. One conclusion is that critical thinking requires a purpose to the thinking and it can be done either independently or collaboratively. They decided critical thinking requires the following...
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...to Critical Thinking C onCepts and t ools By Dr. Richard Paul and Dr. Linda Elder The Foundation for Critical Thinking www.criticalthinking.org 707-878-9100 cct@criticalthinking.org LIMITED DOWNLOAD COPY Why A Critical Thinking Mini-Guide? This miniature guide focuses on of the essence of critical thinking concepts and tools distilled into pocket size. For faculty it provides a shared concept of critical thinking. For students it is a critical thinking supplement to any textbook for any course. Faculty can use it to design instruction, assignments, and tests in any subject. Students can use it to improve their learning in any content area. Its generic skills apply to all subjects. For example, critical thinkers are clear as to the purpose at hand and the question at issue. They question information, conclusions, and points of view. They strive to be clear, accurate, precise, and relevant. They seek to think beneath the surface, to be logical, and fair. They apply these skills to their reading and writing as well as to their speaking and listening. They apply them in history, science, math, philosophy, and the arts; in professional and personal life. When this guide is used as a supplement to the textbook in multiple courses, students begin to perceive the usefulness of critical thinking in every domain of learning. And if their instructors provide examples of the application of the subject to daily life, students begin to see that education is a tool for improving...
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...have in common? Critical thinking is required in each situation to adequately assess the situation and act accordingly. We may not be aware of the frequency with which we employ critical thinking, but it is vital to good decision making. Without critical thinking, managers can fall into the habit of reacting on impulse, responding to gut feelings alone, or relying only on the advice of others when making important decisions. Understanding the relationship between critical thinking and decision making is the first step towards making wise decisions. This week's focus is on critical thinking and how it relates to decision making. Topics include defining critical thinking, benefits of thinking critically, and the relationship between critical thinking and decision making. Week in Relation to the course Good decision making is the backbone of sound management. The University of Phoenix nine-step decision-making model requires a sequence of steps leading to a sound, defensible decision. Critical thinking is a vital component of making good decisions, defining the decision-making strategy by analyzing the thinking process involved. A firm grasp of the critical-thinking components will equip managers to make sound, considered decisions. Discussion of a Key Point, Thread, or Objective Critical Thinking Definition and Benefits "Critical thinking is that mode of thinking - about any subject, content, or problem - in which the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully...
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...between Critical Thinking and Ethics Elijah Largesse University of Phoenix Foundations for University Success GEN/201 Suzann Connell December 20, 2015 Relationship between Critical Thinking and Ethics Definition of Critical Thinking The definition of critical thinking is the process of using multiple mental and physical ways to free us from nonsense and self-deception. “When we think critically, we can make choices with open eyes” (Ellis, 2015, p. 202). Critical thinking forces us to look at every aspect of what is wrote, spoken, or communicated to us through verbal or non-verbal methods. The Critical Thinking process is something that can be obtained overtime if applied correctly. Description of the steps in the Critical Thinking process The description of the steps in the critical thinking process can be labeled in six steps. The six steps are as follows based on Pyscologist Benjamin Bloom:(Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001, p. 55). 1. Remembering, this tool promotes you to recall key terms, facts, or events. 2. Understanding, this tool ensures that you can explain the idea in your own words. 3. Applying, this tool asks the question of “ how can I use a certain idea to have the result or results I desire”. 4. Analyzing, this tool ensures that you can divide all the ideas into parts, groups, or steps to come to your final conclusion. 5. Evaluating, this level is probably the most crucial in the Critical Thinking process...
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...CRITICAL THINKING APPLICATION VIRGINIA RACKINS MGT/350 JUNE 13, 2011 This paper will explain critical thinking and it will also explain the importance of a person’s ability to think critically. Also in this paper I will describe a personal experience that uses the critical thinking skill and how I benefited from using those skills Critical thinking is being able to make clear and rational decisions. A critical thinker must clear his or her mind to make a good sound decision. Critical thinking is a tool that people use in everyday life. Critical thinking is a tool that a person uses no matter what profession him or her is in. In the business world today critical thinking is an important tool to use because when an organization uses critical thinking he or she uses it to hire employees or for making decisions that will benefit the organization. People use his or her thinking skills for various reasons. He or she may use it to job search or try to figure out what to wear. Critical thinking is beneficial to the decision making process and everyone uses it in his or her life daily. Critical thinking can help us process information better and it also analyzes the information quicker. Critical thinking is a skill that a supervisor or an employee may use on the job. At work a person maybe faced with situations that need the skill of critical thinking. Using this skillful tool all the time a person will improve the quality of ones own thinking...
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...Critical Thinking as We See it In her 1999 work, Concepts and Tools in Critical Thinking, Linda Elder offers the following definition of critical thinking: “Critical thinking is self-guided, self-disciplined thinking which attempts to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way. People who think critically consistently attempt to live rationally, reasonably, and empathically. They are keenly aware of inherently flawed nature of human thinking when left unchecked. They strive to diminish the power of their egocentric and socio- centric tendencies. They use the intellectual tools that critical thinking offers- concepts and principles that enable them to analyze, access, and improve thinking. They work diligently to develop the intellectual virtues of intellectual integrity, intellectual civility, intellectual empathy, intellectual sense of justice and confidence in reason.” Critical thinking is taking a thought thinking about it, analyzing it, and then elaborating on it with facts and evidence. Based on Linda Elder’s argument critical thinkers use intellectual tools to improve their thinking through numerous skills. The numerous skills used such as intellectual empathy and rationale allow for critical thinkers to reason at a high level of quality. With Linda Elder’s definition in mind the following texts offer evidence to support her definition. In John Berger’s Ways of Seeing he offers the problem of people being subjective. In...
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...Thinking Critically Simulation Paper This paper will frame the problems in which Credenhill Industry is experiencing, and evaluate the decisions made in focusing on framing the problems and making decisions regarding the effectiveness of the decisions made. Credenhill Industry's systematically operates a $750 million company today. They accomplished this by amalgamating the distinguishing circumstance of running a triad of subsidiaries, rejecting to go public and appointing Linda James, who is considered by colleagues as one of the leading entrepreneurs of the times. The company uses a comprehensive program to discover and guide bright green managers to fast track career opportunity in a five month. This program entails a challenge to three of the coworkers respectively overseeing one of the three subsidiaries and mentored by Linda James. The challenge began with the news of taking over controls as Store Manager of a Credenhill consumer electronics store in Dallas Texas. The sheer excitements of the brand-new position weakened as the results of long lists of ongoing problems were determined. A new store has opened up recently close by severely reducing the revenue for Credenhill. This issue produced a snowball like effect to the department store and its employees. The new store carried a bigger inventory, competitive pricing and was allegedly to pay their employee a higher salary. If this were not enough it was divulged that we were in legal trouble because of neglecting...
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...University of Phoenix Critical Thinking: Strategies in Decision Making MGT/350 Critical Thinking Critical thinking is a way to process information that can be developed by people to gain a better sense of their own position in relation to their environment and the actions of those around them. It can be used to either clarify or cloud the information being processed depending on the level of development of the critical thinking skills. It can be said that everyone uses critical thinking but the degree which it is used will vary depending on the individual. A comparison between weak sense thinkers who do not have well developed critical thinking skills and fair minded thinkers that do illustrates this point. A weak sense thinker will ignore, rationalize, manipulate and sometimes lie to establish that their view is the correct one. This is because the individual does not utilize all of the tools to develop a more refined ability to process information and as a result they will not consider all of the viewpoints, questions and subsequent challenges that will arise. This is exemplified by radio talk show hosts who use rhetoric and in some cases insults and sheer volume to disparage and diminish their opponent’s views or politicians who will resort to cheating to win at any cost. These types of thinkers are also referred to as sophists. “Sophistry is the art of winning arguments regardless of whether there are problems in the thinking being used, regardless of whether relevant...
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...quarters of losses and recently incurring a huge expense as a part of a lawsuit filed by the US government, the bank is looking for innovative ways to get as much money as possible. The first and most important thing that the team decided to look into was the collection of money from delinquent borrowers. The bank is trying to improve its collections efforts to gain more money from the numerous delinquent borrowers. The collection efforts fall into First Mortgage, Home Equity Line of Credit, Consumer Loans, CD Secured Loans and Overdraft Line of Credit categories. The team decided to use a few Critical thinking methodologies in the process of solving the problem. According to Richard Paul and Linda Elder “Critical thinking is the art of thinking about thinking to make thinking better. It involves three interwoven phases: It analyzes thinking, it evaluates thinking and it improves thinking”. The team first decided to identify the problem at hand. We saw that one of the first problems faced by the banks were the number of times customers missed the payment dates due to lack of knowledge of due dates. There were a few borrowers who could not pay their mortgage due to reasons like job loss, loss of an earning person in the family or a bad personal experience resulting in loss of any disposable income. The collection agents failing to recognize inherent problems in a specific loan, was identified as another problem. The teams next task was to define the goals to be achieved through...
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...Critical Thinking Today’s society is so caught up in the day-to- activities that individuals tend to forget how one thinks. We make choices, create ideas, come up with conclusions, and make decisions based on other people’s opinions. Everyone thinks but much of our thinking can be bias, unclear, partial, and uninformed. These often need careful thought and that is where critical thinking comes in. Thinking is often casual and informal, whereas critical thinking purposely evaluates the quality of thinking. Critical thinking is the ability to think for oneself and being able to make decisions that affect one’s life. Critical thinking is being able to use information, experiences, observation, and reasoning to guide one’s decisions, actions, and beliefs. According to Luke Muehlhauser there are sixteen techniques to critical thinking: “clarify, be accurate, be precise, be relevant, know your purpose, identify assumptions, check your emotions, empathize, know your own ignorance, be independent, think through implications, know your own biases, suspend judgment, consider the opposition, recognize cultural assumptions, and be fair not selfish” (2007, para. 8). These techniques are very helpful but sometimes can fall between the cracks. “Even when using tools and techniques to help with this, we tend to think about specific techniques of 'decision making' or 'idea generation' rather than the wider process of thinking” (Anonymous, 1995-2010, para. 2). If someone uses...
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...Thinking Critically: BENEFITS OF CRITICAL THINKING Thinking Critically: BENEFITS OF CRITICAL THINKING Danelle Neal South University BENEFITS OF CRITICAL THINKING Abstract This paper explores the benefits of thinking critically in the academic or educational setting, professional workplace, and everyday life. Each was examined to showcase the benefits of critical thinking. Research found that applying Six Sigmas, 5 “Whys” and Critical thinking together, business professionals are able to effectively examine and evaluate participants thoughts, sharing’s and ideas to collectively establish working principles. Six Sigma and the “5 Whys” is an approach used by mangers to conduct “root cause analysis” in business process...
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...Synopsis This essay attempts to analyze the theories and underlying models with regard of critical thinking. Firstly the essay examines different theories about critical thinking and relevant evaluations and discussions are followed. Then there are paragraphs demonstrate how critical thinking is linked to real problem thinking and why critical thinking is essential to problem solving especially the management practice. Finally a brief conclusion is drawn at the end of the essay. Diverse materials and references are utilized to cross examine the topic of critical thinking under a reasonably large contextual circumstance. As a project manager, it is of great importance to use critical thinking to understand new information, to evaluate and solve problems and to make sound decisions. Making decisions using critical thinking skills in today's world - a world with increasing number of conflicts, pressure and uncertainty is more imminent than ever before. Organizations and businesses today are confronted with multiple challenges including increasing conflicts brought by economic globalization, fast-paced developing technology and growing diversity. All of these highlight the importance of critical thinking in nowadays society. Critical thinking is the process of collecting and evaluating resources in order to make the most appropriate decision. By adopting critical thinking theory and inferred practice, decision makers such as project managers can effectively deal with these challenges...
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...Running head: CRITICAL THINKING Critical Thinking Application Paper University of Phoenix MGT/350 Critical Thinking: Strategies in Decision Making Richard E Botelho Sr. Bruce A. Fanger Sr. 06/27/11 There are many benefits and specific characteristics as well as important aspects to critical thinking and it has a direct impact on decision-making. In making decisions, the critical thinking process is important and your success and happiness in life will be increased by your ability to think critically. The process in which facts, information, and theories are gathered and analyzed is critical thinking. Effective decisions are made by using the critical thinking process. Critical thinking separates facts from opinions and also evaluates options, and is a valuable process which should be used by everyone. Critical thinkers demonstrate some characteristics such as courage, humility, empathy, integrity, and fair-mindedness. A critical thinker uses these characteristics to help them to make positive decisions that they will be happy about in the future. Critical thinkers know the limitations of their decisions when they are humble. Critical thinkers are also courageous enough to trust their own reasoning skills and they are empathetic enough to comprehend the weight of their decisions on others. Critical thinkers also hold integrity, which demonstrates honesty and realistic perception of end results. An important characteristic of critical thinkers is fair-mindedness...
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...Essays are an essential element of learning, particularly at an undergraduate level. With a well-written essay comes the power to change minds, to influence thinking and create new perspectives. When evaluating the claims presented by a source in an academic essay, a critical and reflective thinker does not simply accept arguments as ‘fact’. Nor do they create arguments based on innuendo and bias. This essay will contend that for students at university level to be taken seriously they must use critical and reflective thinking to write an effective academic essay. The following points will be addressed; what constitutes a credible essay, what is critical thinking and reflective practice, what is the importance of these skills in developing arguments, the benefits of thinking critically and reflectively, the use of critical reflective thinking in evaluating sources and the importance of recognizing those sources correctly for the work to be considered credible. So what constitutes a credible essay? The purpose of the essay is to forward knowledge, to tackle an already existing argument and build on it using sound evidence and research. “Essays are a document of your learning; they show proof of your understanding of the topic and your ability to communicate that understanding convincingly” (Germov 2011, 2). An essay must put forth an argument then break it down to prove or disprove the thesis. The statement needs to be dissected and the main points need to be analysed. What...
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