Critical thinking in nursing students from two Brazilian regions
Diana Paula de Souza Rêgo Pinto Carvalhoa b, Allyne Fortes Vítora b, Ana Luísa Petersen Cogoc d, Greicy Kelly Gouveia Dias Bittencourte f, Viviane Euzébia Pereira Santosa b, Marcos Antônio Ferreira Júniora b
- aUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
- bUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
- cUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- dUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- eUniversidade Federal da Paraíba, Brazil
- fUniversidade Federal da Paraiba. Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To analyze the overall critical thinking and the development of each of the cognitive skills or attributes that compose it in students of the undergraduate program in nursing through the creation of concept maps in two Brazilian teaching institutions. METHOD: Before-and-after experimental study, randomized, performed in two universities of two Brazilian regions, with a sample of 21 subjects at the A school and 56 at the B school. Data were collected through sociodemographic questionnaire and the California Critical Thinking Skills Test. Intervention consisted in the creation of four concept maps. RESULTS: Scores measured for overall critical thinking do not differed between the groups of both schools; however, positive aspects among them were found for skills of evaluation, induction, and inference. CONCLUSION: We perceived validity as a facilitating teaching strategy of the use of concept maps in several aspects.
TL;DRThe overall critical thinking and the development of each of the cognitive skills or attributes that compose it in students of the undergraduate program in nursing through the creation of concept maps in two Brazilian teaching institutions were analyzed. (Semantic Scholar)