Background Enhancing students' critical thinking (CT) is an essential goal of higher
education. Although there are many instruments to assess its cognitive dimension, this is not …

This article describes the development and psychometric evaluation of a Critical Thinking
Disposition Scale (CTDS). Items for the scale were generated using taxonomies of important …

The aim of this research is to examine the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the
Critical Thinking Disposition Scale (CTDS; Sosu, 2013). Participants were 212 university …

Although many conceptualisations of critical thinking (CT) exist, the vast majority
acknowledge the importance of both skill-based and disposition-based components. There …

Critical thinking disposition (CTD), the facet of critical thinking, regarded as the basis to
activate critical thinking skills, is the inclination to think critically. Previous studies on the …

Introduction. The present work reports the characteristics of an instrument measuring the
degree of motivation that people possess to think critically. The Critical Thinking Motivation …

The aim of this research is to determine whether education faculty students' critical thinking
disposition differ according to academic achievement or not. The data were collected …

A comprehensive current educational innovation aims to teach 21st-century skills, which
invariably include critical thinking (CT). The implementation of CT requires some mastery of …

Background: The importance of critical thinking disposition in educational system and
curricula at levels prior to higher education is indicative of the need for a short-form tool to …

This study presents and validates the psychometric characteristics of a short form of the
Critical Thinking Self-assessment Scale (CTSAS). The original CTSAS was composed of six …