Two-workshop, 40-hour critical thinking faculty development intervention

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Evidence · 3 claims (2 for, 1 mixed) · 1 study (1 causal), q3 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 3 claims rest on one study

Description

A faculty development program of two workshops (total 40 hours of direct contact) held 14 weeks apart, developed by a multidisciplinary team of nursing, basic sciences, and English language educators. It targeted knowledge, skills, and attitude dimensions of critical thinking, using Bloom's taxonomy for writing objectives and generating higher-order questions, plus active strategies such as "group work, games, concept maps, debate, and reflections". Between workshops, participants submitted reflections on applying their learning, and the second workshop critiqued participants' course grids for curriculum alignment.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• Participants teach in BSN programs and attend both workshops; between workshops they reflect on and attempt to apply workshop learning in their teaching practice

Constraints

• The article notes cultural and institutional barriers such as limited resources and expectations to complete content, which participants initially believed prevented active strategies

Target Learners

• full-time nursing and non-nursing faculty teaching in BSN programs in Pakistan

Learning Goals

• educators' ability to ask higher-order questions
• use of active teaching strategies
• facilitation skills for promoting student critical thinking

Claims

• Ct Workshop Increases Higher Order Questions [+M]
• Ct Workshop Improves Facilitation Items [+M]
• Ct Workshop Active Strategies Not Significant [~M]

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Key Sources

• Gul, R. B., Khan, S., Ahmed, A., Cassum, S., Saeed, T., Parpio, Y., Profetto-McGrath, J., & Schopflocher, D. (2014). Enhancing Educators' Skills for Promoting Critical Thinking in Their Classroom Discourses: A Randomized Control Trial. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 26(1), 37-54. http://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/

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id	ct-two-workshop-faculty-development-intervention
title	Two-workshop, 40-hour critical thinking faculty development intervention
description	A faculty development program of two workshops (total 40 hours of direct contact) held 14 weeks apart, developed by a multidisciplinary team of nursing, basic sciences, and English language educators.
status	review
generated	by process:settle-candidates on 2026-11-02
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sources	1 — gul-2014

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