The Effectiveness of Discovery Learning to Improve Critical Thinking Skills College Student on Mastery of Arrhenius Acid Base
<p class="Abstract">The Effectiveness of Discovery learning to Improve Critical Thinking Skills college student on Mastery of Arrhenius Acid-Base. This research was aimed to describe the effectiveness of discovery learning to improving critical thinking skills on mastery of Arrhenius acid-base. The renewal of this research is the integration of discovery learning models, The 2013 curriculum structure, Arrhenius acid-base material with aspects of critical thinking skills according by Ennis.This research used quasi-experiment with pretest-postest non-equivalent control group design. The population in this research is all college students of Master Program of Chemistry Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Lampung University Academic year 2017/2018. The sample is taken by cluster random sampling technique and obtained sample that is class A as experiment class were 31 students and Class B as control class was 30 students. The results showed that the effectiveness of discovery learning by n-Gain value had high criteria and effect size had large criteria. Based on the result of this research shown that discovery learning effective and have a high effect size in improving critical thinking skills on mastery of Arrhenius acid base.</p>