Assessing the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory

Critical thinking dispositions in baccalaureate nursing students

“…His results were similar to ours in that respondents had a high truth-seeking score and low systematicity score, but different in that students produced high scores in maturity but low scores in analyticity. In a study by Yeh (2002) with Chinese and American nursing students, Chinese students scored lower on subscales such as truthseeking, systematicity and maturity. This finding was similar to ours in that our students had low scores on the systematicity and maturity subscales.…”

Translation and validation of the Nurses Self-Concept Instrument for college-level nursing students in Taiwan

“…This may lead to different definitions of professional self-concept in Taiwanese nursing students. Individual characteristics and cultural differences should be considered in the translation phase (Yeh, 2002). A future study will consider the translation validity of "be proud of" to achieve conceptual equivalence between cultures.…”

Critical Thinking among Post-Graduate Diploma in Education Students in Higher Education: Reality or Fuss?

“…Therefore a universal definition of critical thinking has not been established (Banning, 2006;Brookfield, 1987;Lai, 2011;Thurmond, 2001;Yeh, 2002). However, Watson and Glaser (1980) described critical thinking as attitude, knowledge, and skills necessary to engage in rational reasoning.…”

“…An interesting revelation by Yeh (2002) was that more emphasis in education should be to expose students to real life situations that can enable them to approach problems, take part in discussions as well as come up with solutions to the problems. No wonder Underbakke et al (1993) stressed the need to impart educators with the knowledge of teaching critical thinking skills as a priority in education.…”