scholarly journals Behavioral Geography: an Ecoliteracy Perspective and Critical Thinking Skills in Men and Women

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Nadiroh Nadiroh ◽  
Uswatun Hasanah ◽  
Vania Zulfa

This study aims at explaining the behavior of students of the biology-Jakarta State University study program on environmental preservation in the perspective of ecoliteracy and critical thinking skills. Ecoliteracy is an understanding and behavior or the action of a person towards the environment. The results of the study show that there is no effect of the interaction between ecoliteracy and thinking Skills. In addition, there is also no interaction between ecoliteracy and gender. This study supports previous relevant research and provides new empirical information that ecoliteracy and critical thinking skills are the causes of someone contributing to preserving the environment. However, the influence of ecoliteracy interactions and critical thinking skills is not significant. In addition, the interaction in the ecoliteracy and gender perspective needs to be ignored because both of them make the same contribution. Therefore, the application of ecoliteracy must begin early. The application of ecoliteracy can also be integrated into the media that are currently developing rapidly. So that at the university level, the concept of ecoliteracy has emerged in a more creative and innovative form by initiating new innovations in the more advanced environment.

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 462
Author(s):  
Patahuddin Patahuddin ◽  
Syawal Syawal ◽  
Amri Amri

Learning that is oriented to the development of critical thinking skills is one of the main priorities of an educator in their learning activities. This study aims to analyze students' critical thinking skills in analyzing a descriptive paragraph. This study uses a descriptive method with a quantitative approach. This research will be carried out during the odd semester of the academic year 2021/2022. The subjects of this study were all 1st-semester students in the English language education study program FKIP UMPAR which consisted of 18 students. The research instruments are observation and interview which involves the descriptive paragraphs observation and the interview guide sheet. Data analysis using descriptive statistical analysis. Referring to the data gained in the study, the researcher found that the critical thinking ability of students to analyze a descriptive paragraph was still very low. It was discovered that students' critical thinking skills in analyzing descriptive paragraphs were in a low category, students achieving a score below the minimum graduation standard set by the university. The data is also reinforced by the results of interviews which show that students are not accustomed to doing English paragraph analysis.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-22
Author(s):  
Sania Salsabila ◽  
Abd. Kholiq

During the Covid-19 pandemic that swept the world including Indonesia, and to improve students' critical thinking skills, it is necessary to have supporting media in the learning process as an edutainment website. This study intends to determine the validity of the edutainment website developed in physics lessons to improve student's critical thinking skills. The research method used is development research with the DDD-E model. This research was only limited to media development, and no practicality and effectiveness tests were carried out. In this study, the validity data were obtained from the results of validation by expert and were analyzed by descriptive quantitative using the category of Likert scale percentage. If the percentage of each aspect is ≥ 61%, then the edutainment website developed can be declared valid. The results of this study are the percentage of validity in the learning aspect of 90.30%, the material aspect of 90.56%, the media aspect of 88.65%, and the critical thinking aspect of 84.70%. Based on this, it can be concluded that the edutainment website is very valid so that it can be used as a physics learning media to improve students' critical thinking skills. The edutainment website can be an alternative learning media by utilizing information technology and hopefully in further research, it can apply edutainment website and perform practicality and effectiveness tests for learning both in class and distance learning


2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-264
Author(s):  
Amelia Lestari ◽  
Elsa Lisanti ◽  
Rizhal Hendi Ristanto

This study aimed to develop guided discovery learning-based android learning media to improve critical thinking skills. The developed biology learning media was applied to the nervous system material. The discussion of the physiology of the nervous system is one of the difficult biological materials to understand because it includes the organization and structure of neurons and their functions, ion pump mechanisms when neurons are at rest, action potential mechanisms, mechanisms for neurons to communicate with other cells in the synapses, and organization of the nervous system. This study used research and development (RD) with a method developed by Thiagarajan, namely the 4D model with stages: define, design, develop and disseminate. The stages of this study are limited to the development stage. The results showed that the media was feasible with media, language, and a material expert validation of   3.5, 3.8, and 3.3, respectively.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-28
Author(s):  
Dedy Dwi Setyawan ◽  
Ali Mustadi

The condition of the students’ critical thinking skills in the Kowangbinangun State Elementary School has impacted their learning results. Departing from this situation, a study for improving the students’ critical thinking skills and learning results by using hidrorium as the media should be conducted. Within the conduct of the study, the approach that had been adopted was the classroom action research. Then, the instruments that had been implemented were the test instrument, namely the test items for measuring the achievement of the students’ learning results, and the non-test instrument, namely the assignment assessment rubric for measuring the students’ critical thinking skills level. Furthermore, the data analysis method that had been adopted was the descriptive-comparativee method. Within the first cycle, 4% of the students belonged to the “Very High” category, 14% of the students belonged to the “High” category, and 82% of the students belonged to the “Low” category; as a result, 33% of the students met the passing grade while 67% of the students did not meet the passing grade. The research in the first cycle improved the students’ critical thinking skills and thus 14% of the students belonged to the “Very High” category, 57% of the students belonged to the “High” category, and 29% of the students belonged to the “Low” category. Following up the improvement, the learning results of the students showed that 64% of the students met the passing grade whereas 36% of the students did not meet the passing grade. In the second cycle, the students’ critical thinking skills also improved since 86% of the students belonged to the “Very High” category and 14% of the students belonged to the “High” category. Thus, the students’ learning results improved as well with 82% of the students met the passing grade and 18% of the students did not meet the passing grade.


Author(s):  
Mohan Rathakrishnan ◽  
Arumugam Raman

Trello online discussion has become one of the important strategies for the University Utara Malaysia Management Foundation Programme student to teach other students to think critically in conveying their ideas and become more proactive and creative in critical thinking subject. In a heutagogical approach, learners become highly autonomous and self-determined while learning online. They use Trello online discussion tool as self-determination learning. Trello enable the learners to use their capacity and capability with the goal of producing learners. Trello online learning was conducted to examine its effectiveness in enhancing macro critical thinking among active-reflective learning style. The students discuss and write their ideas in Trello. Ideas that are posted in Trello will be displayed in front of the class so that the entire learners in the class could see the given ideas. Paul's model was used to analyze learners' critical thinking in Trello online discussion.


Author(s):  
Sandra Murinska-Gaile ◽  
Sabahudin Hadžialić

The aim of this paper is to look on level of media literacy and activities in this field in two countries – Latvia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. People are exposed to a flow of diverse content of information and opinions, there it is important to discuss about media education and it`s outcome – the media literacy. Media literacy helps people to analyze, evaluate, and create messages thus develops people's critical and creative abilities. The survey about credibility of mass media, critical use of information, understanding of media literacy in each country, institutions promoting media literacy and the impact of media literacy on political decision making was carried out. The main hypothesis of this case study was that media literacy is basic presumption of the establishing the critical thinking of society of developed democratic consciousness.The comparative analysis showed that sociological aspect in the area of Bosnia and Herzegovina within the deep division in the society itself, with the lack of consensual awareness creates presumption trust completely into the mass media, while in the case of Latvia there is just few answers related to the existing media literacy.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nhung Thi Tuyet Pham

Over the past several years, various stakeholders have continued to express concerns about the quality of U.S. higher education. Under the accountability and transparency pressures, institutions must provide evidence of student learning, especially the value of general education programs upon graduation. Therefore, a case study at a U.S. comprehensive university was conducted to assess five general education competency skills (written, oral, quantitative literacy, critical thinking and information literacy). To facilitate “close the loop” conversations with faculty and committees, in addition to descriptive analysis, the university disaggregated the assessment data in a non-traditional way by examining the relationship of student factors (race, year and college) and student learning. The researcher used ANCOVA and ANOVA to identify significant differences. Results indicated year and race were related to student outcomes, except for critical thinking skills. The researcher provided suggestions for use of the study’s findings to close the loop in the general education program.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-254
Author(s):  
Deasy Rahmawati ◽  
Ike Annita

ABSTRACT This aims of this study is to comprehend  the increase in the critical thinking skills of PGSD students through the implementation of social inquiry models in elementary social studies education courses. The population of this study were all 3rd semester students of the PGSD FKIP Unla study program. Sampling was carried out by using saturated sampling technique, where all members of the population were sampled, class A01 as a control class that applied conventional learning and class A02 as an experimental class that was treated with social inquiry learning models. The data in this study were obtained through the results of the pretest and posttest using the critical thinking essay test instrument. The results of this study indicate that there are differences in the increase in the critical thinking skills of PGSD students in the SD social studies course after the social inquiry learning model is applied. Beside that, the critical thinking skills of PGSD students in the Elementary Social Sciences Education course after applying the social inquiry learning model are better than the control class using conventional learning methods.   ABSTRAK Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui peningkatan kemampuan berpikir kritis mahasiswa PGSD melalui penerapan model inkuiri sosial dalam mata kuliah pendidikan IPS SD.  Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah seluruh mahasiswa semester 3 program studi PGSD FKIP Unla. Penarikan sampel dilakukan dengan teknik sampling jenuh, dimana seluruh anggota populasi dijadikan sampel, yaitu kelas A01 dijadikan kelas kontrol yang menerapkan pembelajaran konvensional dan kelas A02 dijadikan kelas eksperimen yang mendapatkan perlakuan model pembelajaran inkuiri sosial. Data yang dalam penelitian ini diperoleh melalui hasil pretes dan postes dengan menggunakan instrumen tes uraian berpikir  kritis. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa terdapat perbedaan peningkatan kemampuan berpikir kritis mahasiswa PGSD pada mata kuliah Pendidikan IPS SD setelah diterapkan model  pembelajaran inkuiri sosial. Selain itu, kemampuan berpikir kritis mahasiswa PGSD pada mata kuliah Pendidikan IPS SD setelah diterapkan model  pembelajaran inkuiri sosial lebih baik daripada kelas kontrol yang menggunakan metode pembelajaran konvensional.


2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Achmad Buchori ◽  
Rasiman Rasiman ◽  
Dina Prasetyowati ◽  
Kartinah Kartinah

ABSTRAKTujuan penelitian ini adalah mengembangkan Mobile Learning dengan pendekatan matematik realistik pada mata kuliah Geometri ditinjau dari kemampuan berpikir kritis. Adapun target khusus yang ingin dicapai dalam penelitian ini yaitu menguji efektifitas perangkat pembelajaran Mobile Learning dengan pendekatan matematik realistik pada mata kuliah Geometri ditinjau dari kemampuan berpikir kritis mahasiswa Program Studi pendidikan Matematika Universitas PGRI Semarang. Prosedur pengembangan perangkat pembelajaran menggunakan model yang dikembangkan Borg dan Gall yang meliputi 10 tahapan. Dalam penelitian ini tahapan yang dilakukan hanya sampai pada tahap kelima yaitu Main Product Revision.Analisis pada penelitian ini dilakukan dengan membandingkan antara data dengan kriteria-kriteria, yaitu praktis dan efektif. Pada kriteria praktis menunjukkan hasil evaluasi ahli media sebesar 93%, ahli materi sebesar 83%, dan mahasiswa sebesar 86%. Dalam kriteria efektif produk ditunjukan dari prestasi belajar kelas eksperimen lebih baik dibanding dengan kelas kontrol. Dari analisis menggunakan uji-t didapatkan  thitung > ttabel yaitu 5,98 > 1,71, maka Ho ditolak artinya pembelajaran dengan menggunakan media mobile learning dengan pendekatan matematik realistik lebih baik dibandingkan dengan pembelajaran konvensional. Jadi dapat disimpulkan bahwa media mobile learning dengan pendekatan realistik matematik ini efektif digunakan sebagai proses pembelajaran. Kata Kunci: Mobile learning, Geometri, Pendekatan Realistik Matematik. ABSTRACSThe purpose of this research is to develop a Mobile Learning with realistic mathematical approach to the subject geometry in terms of critical thinking skills. The specific targets to be achieved in this research is to test the effectiveness of the learning Mobile Learning with realistic mathematical approach to the subject geometry in terms of critical thinking skills of students in Mathematics Education Study Program University of PGRI Semarang. Learning software development procedures using the model developed Borg and Gall which includes 10 stages. In this research phase is done only until the fifth stage, namely Main Product Revision.The analysis in this study is done by comparing the data with the criteria, that is practical and effective. On practical criteria shows the results of the expert evaluation of media by 93%, amounting to 83% of material experts, and students by 86%. Effective products in the criteria indicated from experimental class learning achievement better than the control class. From the analysis using t-test obtained t count> t table ie 5.98> 1.71, then Ho is rejected it means learning using mobile learning media with realistic mathematical approach is better than the conventional learning. So it can be concluded that mobile learning media with realistic mathematical approach is effectively used as a learning process. Keywords: Mobile learning, Geometry, Mathematical Realistic Approach.


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