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An Assessment Of Post-Professional Athletic Training Students' Critical Thinking Skills And Dispositions, Jessica Marie Walter
An Assessment Of Post-Professional Athletic Training Students' Critical Thinking Skills And Dispositions, Jessica Marie Walter
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The need for outcome measures in critical thinking skills and dispositions for post-professional athletic training programs (PPATPs) is significant. It has been suggested that athletic trainers who are competent and disposed towards thinking critically will be successful in the profession. The purpose of this study is to assess critical thinking skills and dispositions of PPATP students who entered a program in either the summer or fall of 2012 utilizing the California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST) and the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (CCTDI). All PPATP first year students entering the program during fall or summer of 2012 and one …