Thinking Insight
Building Industry Leaders in College Programs
In a recent address, David Ricks, CEO of Eli Lilly and Co., called for an investment in education, one that would include a more rigorous …
Your Critical Thinking Saves Lives: Exercise for Strong Reasoning & Mindset
Being responsible for the health and safety of others and being called on to make optimal decisions when lives hang in the balance: these are constant demands for working health care providers and safety officers. Reflecting on these insights will help you maintain your reasoning and mindset strength, improve your competence, and help you connect well with other strong thinkers.
Building a Smart and Adaptive Workforce
In recent months, people who can see change as opportunity have been emerging as leaders in every network. When others are overwhelmed, these people are …
Strengthening the Essence of Clinical Reasoning
The Role of Critical Thinking in Clinical Reasoning Critical thinking drives the continued development of new knowledge and practice competence for every clinician, clinical scientist, …
Predicting Success in Health Science Professional Programs
Predicting student success via critical thinking assessment For several decades, health science educators have been working to train critical thinking in their students and clinicians. …
Resolve to Think Critically about COVID-19
Have you been trying to think well about how to protect yourself, your workplace, and your community during the pandemic? COVID-19 is a serious threat. …
Your Problem Solving Process for BIG Problems
Facing BIG problems? Our CEO’s insights on the problem-solving process Here are 6 insights on resolving BIG problems (plus an example of the problem-solving process), …
Truth-seekers Needed
Truth-seekers are vital We need our health care providers to be truth-seekers; following our evolving health status to be sure therapies are really working, and …
Looking at 15 Years of College Data
Evidence of gains in overall critical thinking skills Our cross-sectional data from the California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST), although uncontrolled by the many changes …
College Students and the Disposition Toward Using Critical Thinking
Has the critical thinking mindset of higher ed students improved? What do we know about college students’ critical thinking mindset? A search of publications using California …