scholarly journals Enhancing the Critical Thinking Skills of Grade 8 Chemistry Students Using an Inquiry and Reflection Teaching Method

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathaly FARAH ◽  
Zalpha AYOUBİ
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Chemistry Students ◽  
Grade 8

scholarly journals Validity of Multimedia Peat Swamp Forest Concept Based on Problem Solving to Practice Critical Thinking Skills of Chemistry Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Betty Agustina ◽  
Danang Biyatmoko ◽  
Aminuddin Prahatama Putra
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Multimedia Learning ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Design Flow ◽  
Swamp Forest ◽  
Peat Swamp Forest ◽  
Chemistry Students ◽  
Peat Swamp

The wetland learning system is still conventional and lecturer-centered so that students are not accustomed to doing problem solving activities that have an impact on the lack of students' critical thinking skills. This study aims to develop multimedia learning of problem solving based peat swamp forest concepts to determine the validity of multimedia to train students' critical thinking skills. The stages carried out following the ADDIE instructional design flow include analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation. Data collection techniques used a validation sheet instrument for two material experts from Lambung Mangkurat University and one multimedia expert from Politeknik Hasnur. Readability test was conducted on three active students who had taken a course to introduce the wetland environment in FMIPA ULM. The results showed that the multimedia learning concept of problem solving peat swamp forest to train critical thinking skills of chemistry students of FMIPA ULM Banjarbaru is very valid.AbstrakSistem pembelajaran lahan basah masih bersifat konvensional dan berpusat pada dosen sehingga mahasiswa tidak terbiasa melakukan kegiatan pemecahan masalah yang berdampak pada kurangnya keterampilan berpikir kritis mahasiswa. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan  multimedia pembelajaran konsep hutan rawa gambut berbasis problem solving untuk mengetahui bagaimana validitas multimedia untuk melatihkan keterampilan berpikir kritis mahasiswa. Tahapan yang dilakukan mengikuti alur desain instruksional ADDIE meliputi analisis, desain, pengembangan, implementasi dan evaluasi. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan instrumen lembar validasi terhadap dua ahli materi dari Universitas Lambung Mangkurat dan satu ahli multimedia dari Politeknik Hasnur. Uji keterbacaan dilakukan terhadap tiga mahasiswa aktif yang pernah mengambil mata kuliah pengenalan lingkungan lahan basah di FMIPA ULM. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa multimedia pembelajaran konsep hutan rawa gambut berbasis problem solving untuk melatihkan keterampilan berpikir kritis mahasiswa kimia FMIPA ULM Banjarbaru sangat valid.

Development and validation of an instrument to measure undergraduate chemistry students’ critical thinking skills

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-78
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Danczak ◽  
Christopher D. Thompson ◽  
Tina L. Overton
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Chemistry Education ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
Validity Testing ◽  
Chemistry Students ◽  
Undergraduate Chemistry

The importance of developing and assessing student critical thinking at university can be seen through its inclusion as a graduate attribute for universities and from research highlighting the value employers, educators and students place on demonstrating critical thinking skills. Critical thinking skills are seldom explicitly assessed at universities. Commercial critical thinking assessments, which are often generic in context, are available. However, literature suggests that assessments that use a context relevant to the students more accurately reflect their critical thinking skills. This paper describes the development and evaluation of a chemistry critical thinking test (the Danczak–Overton–Thompson Chemistry Critical Thinking Test or DOT test), set in a chemistry context, and designed to be administered to undergraduate chemistry students at any level of study. Development and evaluation occurred over three versions of the DOT test through a variety of quantitative and qualitative reliability and validity testing phases. The studies suggest that the final version of the DOT test has good internal reliability, strong test–retest reliability, moderate convergent validity relative to a commercially available test and is independent of previous academic achievement and university of study. Criterion validity testing revealed that third year students performed statistically significantly better on the DOT test relative to first year students, and postgraduates and academics performed statistically significantly better than third year students. The statistical and qualitative analysis indicates that the DOT test is a suitable instrument for the chemistry education community to use to measure the development of undergraduate chemistry students’ critical thinking skills.

scholarly journals The Effects of Applying the Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Theory on the 11th Grade Scientific Stream Students’ Acquisition of the Concepts of Physics and the Development of Their Critical Thinking Skills

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Sami Salameh Almasarweh ◽  
Mohammad Khudairat
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Problem Based Learning ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
11Th Grade

The current study explores the effects of applying the Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Strategy on the 11th-grade scientific stream Jordanian students' acquisition of the concepts of developing their critical thinking skills. This study's significance lies in its emphasis on the worldwide growing tendency to apply PBL teaching strategies that consider developing the students' mental capabilities and creative thinking skills and, consequently, help them solve status-de- facto educational problems face and solve problems in their lives. The researchers used the experimental method in their study, which is based on studying the relationship between the independent and the dependent variables. For this reason, three study student groups, equal in their age, intelligence, academic achievement, social and economic standing, were selected. Two experimental groups were exposed to the independent variable (PBL) method, whereas the third control group was not exposed to the independent variable. Instead, it was taught in the Motion Unit in Physics by using the traditional teaching method. The results of the study were analyzed statistically, applying for the SPSS program. The Arithmetic Mean, the Standard Deviation, the Torsional Modulus, and the T-Test were used for the study analysis. The study results revealed that the two (PBL) experimental groups have proved to be much more superior to the control group's third traditional teaching method.

scholarly journals Effect of Concept Mapping Teaching Method on Critical Thinking Skills of Medical Students

2020 ◽  
Vol Volume 11 ◽  
pp. 359-367
Author(s):  
Ghobad Ramezani ◽  
Azam Norouzi ◽  
Mohammadreza Dehghani ◽  
Maryam Aslami ◽  
Shirin Ghanavati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Concept Mapping ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills

scholarly journals Enhanced Critical Thinking Skills through Problem-Solving Games in Secondary Schools

10.28945/3677 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott D McDonald
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Future Research ◽  
School Students ◽  
Coffee Shop

[This Proceedings paper was revised and published in the Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Skills and Lifelong Learning (IJELL)] Aim/Purpose: Students face many challenges improving their soft skills such as critical thinking. This paper offers one possible solution to this problem. Background: This paper considers one method of enhancing critical thinking through a problem-solving game called the Coffee Shop. Problem-solving is a key component to critical thinking, and game-playing is one method of enhancing this through an interactive teaching method. Methodology: Three classes of Vietnamese high school students engaged in the Coffee Shop game. The method seeks outcome measurements through the use of analysis of multiple surveys to assess and interpret if critical thinking may have been improved. Contribution: The study may help to understand the importance of problem-solving in the context of an entrepreneurial setting and add to the variation of methods used to deliver the lesson to students in the classroom. Findings: The findings show that practicing problem-solving scenarios with a focus on critical thinking in a time limited setting results in a measured improvement of this skill. Recommendations for Practitioners : The findings suggest that educators could use games more as tools for problem-solving to contribute to their students’ learning outcomes around developing critical thinking. Recommendation for Researchers: More research could be devoted to developing problem-solving and critical thinking skills through game-play models. Impact on Society: Improved critical thinking skills in individuals could make a greater contribution to society. Future Research: A comparative study between different high school grades and genders as well as between different countries or cultures.

scholarly journals The impact of using the Marzano model in developing the critical thinking skills of the 10th grade students in the field of social education

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thuraya Taslam Hadi Al Othman
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Social Education ◽  
10Th Grade ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
The Impact

The study was designed to investigate the effect of using the Marzano model in developing the critical thinking skills of the 10th grade students in social education. The study sample consisted of (66) female students of the tenth grade, which included two groups: the experimental group and the number of female students (33) The officer (33) is a student. The study followed the semi-experimental approach to the application of the study to the tenth grade students. The researcher prepared a test to measure the skills of critical thinking. It consists of (10) paragraphs divided into three fields (analysis, evaluation, conclusion) In order to measure the tribal and remote performance in the two study groups.  The results of the study showed that there is a statistically significant difference at the level of (α = 0.05) in the critical thinking skills of the 10th grade students in the social education field in Jordan due to the teaching method according to the Marzano model.  Based on the results, the study came out with several recommendations, the most important of which are: encouraging teachers to use modern methods of education, holding workshops for teachers to teach them the importance of critical thinking, and the importance of modern models in education.

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