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The purpose of this study is to develop and to apply the program for the improvement of critical thinking ability which is using cognitive apprenticeship model and student-generated rubrics. To achieve the goal of research, I examined the literatures review on critical thinking. Based on the literature review, I found out the factors of critical thinking skills and dispositions. The list of core critical thinking skills includes analysis, evaluation, inference, judgement, decision-making. And the list of core critical thinking dispositions includes healthy skepticism, intellectual honesty, open-mindedness, intellectual courage, and intellectual sympathy. I developed the program to improve those critical thinking skills and dispositions for college students. All 42 first and second grade students in P university were selected and randomly divided into experimental group and control group. For 8 sessions were held and the whole intervention was completed during 2 months. The conclusions of this research are as follows. First, there is a significant difference between experimental group and control group for critical thinking skills test. Second, there is significant difference between experimental group and control group for critical thinking dispositions test. According to this results, we have known that students are enabled to become critical thinkers as a result of participating in the program to improve the critical thinking. In this way students can learn the skills, dispositions and understanding of critical thinkers.