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Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the critical thinking tendencies and learning styles of midwifery and nursing students.  Materials and Method: The sampling of the study consisted of a total of 364 students from Health College including 230 nursing and 134 midwifery students. A personal information form, the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory, and the Kolb Learning Style Inventory were used to collect the research data. Results: There was a significant difference in terms of gender in some of the sub-dimensions of the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory, however that the difference was not significant with regard to department and class. The analyses revealed that 43.7% of the students had diverging, 22.3% had assimilating, 19.0% had accommodating, and 15.1% had converging learning styles. A statistically significant difference was found between critical thinking dispositions based on learning styles. Converging learning style received the highest mean score, whereas diverging got the lowest among the critical thinking dispositions according to the learning styles that the students had. While analyticity, open-mindedness and being inquisitive had the highest mean scores in both sub-dimensions, systematicity received the lowest mean score. Conclusion: The students employed diverging sub-dimension most according to the learning styles they had, and that they had analytic thinking style regarding critical thinking dispositions. However, when the sub-dimensions of the two inventories were compared, there were differences between their learning styles and critical thinking dispositions.

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