“…It was determined that the mean preeducation score of the students from the total CCTDI (220.36 ± 24.72) was "low" and that the mean post-education score (311.74 ± 32.06) was "high". Recent studies on nursing students' critical thinking dispositions in Turkey have mostly been descriptive cross-sectional studies and found moderate or low critical thinking disposition scores (Karadağ et al, 2018, İskender andKaradağ, 2015;Ciftci et al, 2021;Oktay et al, 2019;Özdil et al, 2019;Sözen and Karabulut, 2021;Çalışkan et al, 2020;Bingöl et al, 2012). In their study on the effect of critical thinking courses on critical thinking disposition of nursing students, Caliskan et al ( 2020) found pre-education (220.52 ± 21.51) and post-education (224.55 ± 22.86) total CCTDI scores as low, with the difference between pre-test and post-test scores being insignificant.…”