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Critical thinking skills of nursing students: Observations of classroom instructional activities
AIM: Critical thinking (CT) is vital for nursing practice. Nursing schools should provide learning experiences that enable nursing students to acquire CT skills. Yet, these authors are not aware of any study that has directly observed instructional activities related to CT skills acquisition in the...
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2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7024608/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32089855 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nop2.426 |
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author | Boso, Christian Makafui van der Merwe, Anita S. Gross, Janet |
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description | AIM: Critical thinking (CT) is vital for nursing practice. Nursing schools should provide learning experiences that enable nursing students to acquire CT skills. Yet, these authors are not aware of any study that has directly observed instructional activities related to CT skills acquisition in the classroom environment. The aim of this study was to explore instructional activities in the classroom environment in relation to acquisition of CT skills of students. DESIGN: Qualitative non‐participant observation. METHODS: Using a purposive sampling, 10 classroom teaching sessions were observed and mediating factors of CT skills acquisition of students noted. Data were analysed thematically. Data were collected from October–December 2017. RESULTS: Three key themes of instructional activities relating to acquisition of CT skills of students emerged, namely educators’ behaviour, students’ characteristics and university‐wide factors/administrative support. Class sizes ranged from 34–162 students with an average of 95. |
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spelling | pubmed-70246082020-02-21 Critical thinking skills of nursing students: Observations of classroom instructional activities Boso, Christian Makafui van der Merwe, Anita S. Gross, Janet Nurs Open Research Articles AIM: Critical thinking (CT) is vital for nursing practice. Nursing schools should provide learning experiences that enable nursing students to acquire CT skills. Yet, these authors are not aware of any study that has directly observed instructional activities related to CT skills acquisition in the classroom environment. The aim of this study was to explore instructional activities in the classroom environment in relation to acquisition of CT skills of students. DESIGN: Qualitative non‐participant observation. METHODS: Using a purposive sampling, 10 classroom teaching sessions were observed and mediating factors of CT skills acquisition of students noted. Data were analysed thematically. Data were collected from October–December 2017. RESULTS: Three key themes of instructional activities relating to acquisition of CT skills of students emerged, namely educators’ behaviour, students’ characteristics and university‐wide factors/administrative support. Class sizes ranged from 34–162 students with an average of 95. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-11-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7024608/ /pubmed/32089855 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nop2.426 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Nursing Open published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Boso, Christian Makafui van der Merwe, Anita S. Gross, Janet Critical thinking skills of nursing students: Observations of classroom instructional activities |
title | Critical thinking skills of nursing students: Observations of classroom instructional activities |
title_full | Critical thinking skills of nursing students: Observations of classroom instructional activities |
title_fullStr | Critical thinking skills of nursing students: Observations of classroom instructional activities |
title_full_unstemmed | Critical thinking skills of nursing students: Observations of classroom instructional activities |
title_short | Critical thinking skills of nursing students: Observations of classroom instructional activities |
title_sort | critical thinking skills of nursing students: observations of classroom instructional activities |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7024608/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32089855 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nop2.426 |
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