A Literature Review: Critical Thinking Skills for Int'l Students

This literature review analyzes critical thinking skills among international students in higher education, drawing on two key studies. The first study investigates engineering master's students in the UK, revealing that their conceptual understanding and information-seeking strategies differ from domestic students, with a preference for guided solutions over independent critical analysis. The second study explores critical thinking development in nursing and clinical students through virtual interactive case studies, highlighting the importance of decision-making skills in healthcare practices. Both studies identify limitations, including a focus on outcomes rather than underlying causes and a lack of concrete recommendations for educational improvement. Desklib offers access to similar solved assignments.

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Critical Thinking Skills if International Students
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Bramhall, M. D., Gray, L., Corker, C., Garnett, K., & Hill, R. (2012). Analysis of Critical
Thinking Skills in an International, Cross-Institutional Group of Engineering Master's
Students. Industry and Higher Education, 26(4), 323-327.
The purpose of this study is to analyse the underlying causes behind the lack of critical
thinking skills of engineering master’s students in UK course, who are from another cultural or
national background. This report followed the primary data collection by interviewing Master’s
engineering students from two universities in the UK to assess their conceptualization of critical
thinking. The study found that, due to their previous learning experience and procedure, the
conceptual and international ability of international students are lower. The study has also found
that foreign students prefer to guide by the supervisors instead of finding the solution which
critical thinking. According to Bramhall et al. (2012), the students from different culture or
nationality collect the required information from conventional search engine rather than their
educational search engine or provided search engine by their universities.
The report is very helpful to analyse the learning practices of Engineering Masters
students from different cultural or national background. The report has successfully presented the
data regarding the learning process and understanding strategy, the learning preference of the
targeted sample size with evidence and explanations.
There are some major limitations in this report concerning the data analysis and the
interpretation. The report was aimed to find the original cause behind the dilemma. However, the
report focused more on the outcomes rather than focusing on the underlying causes behind these
issues. The research did not execute a detailed exploration on the impact of cultural background
on the learning practice and the consequences of the existing learning practices they have.

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Burke, S. M. (2017). Cultivating critical thinking using virtual interactive case
studies. Journal of Pediatric Nursing: Nursing Care of Children and Families, 33, 94-96.
The aim of this study is to analyse the critical thinking and diagnose its essential
components with its implementation in healthcare practices. The study focused on underlying
factors behind the critical thinking skills of clinical and nursing students. This report followed
the primary data collection by executing an online graduate level program and simulation for
nursing and clinical students with an open ended interview session. The data was collected with
certain intervals complying three critical areas of decision making process namely Assessment,
Diagnostic reasoning and interventions plan. The study found that, due to their previous learning
experience and procedure, the decision-making ability and innovative idea of clinical and
nursing students are lower than expected. Burke (2017), concluded that the amplified
requirements for advanced practice providers some nursing and health care schools expanding
their graduate nursing programs to online education in order to successfully deliver more
convenient educational opportunities to the students.
The report is very valuable to find the most appropriate possible approach for the
Introductory Academic Program for nursing and clinical students to develop their decision-
making skill. The report has successfully presented the feedback collected from the nursing
students regarding their challenges and experiences in crucial situation where innovative
planning and effective decision-making is highly required. The focus of this paper was to
describe the process and outcomes of incorporating virtual interactive patients into the clinical
courses through a online based nurseling practice program.

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The minor boundaries of in this report covers its intangibility and lack of outlined
direction towards suggesting the educational and training organisations for betterment of their
course plan. The report focused more on the possible causes rather than focusing on the
development of nursing students in the real critical situations.

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Reference:
Bramhall, M. D., Gray, L., Corker, C., Garnett, K., & Hill, R. (2012). Analysis of Critical
Thinking Skills in an International, Cross-Institutional Group of Engineering Master's
Students. Industry and Higher Education, 26(4), 323-327.
Burke, S. M. (2017). Cultivating critical thinking using virtual interactive case studies. Journal
of Pediatric Nursing: Nursing Care of Children and Families, 33, 94-96.