Learning Environment for Improving Critical Thinking Skills Based on New Synthesis Theory

摘要

Critical thinking, thinking about one's own thinking processes, is a kind of meta-cognition. For advance of the quality of medical care, nurses must perform critical thinking processes to clarify the evidence of one's own decision-making explicitly and to validate it. To train critical thinking skills, we adopt a new synthesis theory as a base of our learning scheme. In this paper we propose a new synthesis theory based learning system for developing critical thinking skills in a nursing domain. Furthermore, we illustrate a scenario of a learner's system utilization to explain what functionaries are embedded in our system to encourage Critical Thinking learning.