Disposition towards critical thinking: a study of Chinese undergraduate nursing students

Disposition towards critical thinking: a study of Chinese undergraduate nursing students The purpose of this study was to explore empirically whether undergraduate nursing students at a selected university in Hong Kong display a disposition towards critical thinking. The California Critical Thinking Dispositions Inventory (CCTDI) was used to measure the key theoretical aspects of the overall dispositional dimension of critical thinking. A cross‐sectional descriptive design was used to examine 122 Chinese students who were completing their 1st, 2nd and 3rd year of a university baccalaureate nursing programme. In the majority of sub‐scales of CCTDI, students showed a negative disposition towards critical thinking. A one‐way ANOVA indicated that year 3 students scored significantly lower than their junior counterparts (P