Effectiveness of Environment-Based Biology Instructional Model to Improve Students’ Critical Thinking skills in High School

In 21st century learning, critical thinking skills are the main choice that must be mastered by students. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of local wisdom-based science teaching materials in improving junior high school students’ critical thinking skills. Most science teachers still apply teacher-centered learning, so students tend to be passive. This type of research is quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest control group design. The study was conducted in the even semester of the 2019/2020 school year. The subjects of the research were grade VII students. Data collection techniques and instruments in the form of tests that include indicators of critical thinking skills. Data analysis used homogeneity test, Kolmogorov Smirnov normality test, independent sample t-test, and n-gain score. The results of the independent sample t-test are sig. (2-tailed) = 0,000<sig. α = 0.05. Students’ critical thinking skills in the experimental class were higher (N-gain score = 39.09%) than in the control class (N-gain score = 12.03%). Based on the study results, it can be concluded that there is a significant influence on the application of local wisdom-based teaching materials in improving the critical thinking skills of middle school students in the moderate category.

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Hubungan kecerdasan naturalis dan motivasi belajar dengan kemampuan berpikir kritis peserta didik pada materi pencemaran lingkungan

Florea Jurnal Biologi dan Pembelajarannya ◽

10.25273/florea.v5i2.3124 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 100

Author(s):

Nabilah Rahma Putri ◽

Mieke Miarsyah ◽

Diana Vivanti

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Critical Thinking ◽

Environmental Pollution ◽

Correlation Coefficient ◽

Thinking Skills ◽

Senior High School ◽

Critical Thinking Skills ◽

Statistical Hypothesis ◽

School Year ◽

Regression Test

The skills to think critically on environmental pollution material is the skills of the learners to understand a condition that involves the process of reasoning about environmental pollution. Student’s critical thinking skills is an interaction between various factors, namely naturalist intelligence and motivation learning. Student who possess critical thinking skills are as good as those naturalist intelligence and those who are motivated to learn. This study aimed to determine the correlation between naturalist intelligence and motivation learning with student’s critical thinking skills in Jakarta on environmental pollution. This research was conducted at 68 Jakarta Senior High School on semester II of 2017/2018 school year. The method that was used is descriptive quantitative through correlational study. The sample used amount if 115 students of class X MIA. The result of prerequisite test finds that the data are normally distributed and homogeneous. The statistical hypothesis was done by linier regression test, liniearity test, and correlation coefficient test at α = 0,05. Based on these results, it is concluded there is a correlation between naturalist intelligence and motivation learning with student’s critical thinking skills on environmental pollution.

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Identification of debriefing 21 st century skills on aspects of critical thinking skills and communication skills in Bengkulu high school students in physics subjects

Journal of Physics Conference Series ◽

10.1088/1742-6596/1731/1/012069 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1731 ◽

pp. 012069

Author(s):

Y Hanicza ◽

D H Putri ◽

D Hamdani

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

Critical Thinking ◽

Communication Skills ◽

Thinking Skills ◽

Critical Thinking Skills ◽

School Students

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Validation of Scientific-Based Physics Learning Modules to Improve Critical Thinking Skills in Dynamic Fluid Materials

Path of Science ◽

10.22178/pos.65-5 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (12) ◽

pp. 3007-3011

Author(s):

Alpi Zaidah ◽

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Ermila Mahariyanti ◽

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Critical Thinking ◽

Thinking Skills ◽

Development Stage ◽

Critical Thinking Skills ◽

Physics Learning ◽

Learning Modules ◽

Learning Module ◽

Validity Criteria ◽

D Model

This study aims to obtain a valid scientific-based physics learning module to improve critical thinking skills in Dynamic Fluid material for high school/MA students. This study uses a research development design and approach or is included in development research. In this study, a scientific-based physics learning module was developed. The development of this module refers to the development of the (4-D model) proposed by Thiagarajan. This model consists of 4 development stages, namely (Define, Design, Develop, and Disseminate). However, this study is only limited to the development stage, namely the validation stage. The validation test is a theoretical validation. Namely, assurance carried out by experts in their fields. The confirmation includes material, media, language, teacher and peer validation. The research results found that the physics-based learning module was scientifically based on improving critical thinking skills in Dynamic Fluid material for high school / MA students, which were developed to meet the validity criteria. In conclusion, the physics-based learning module to improve critical thinking skills in Dynamic Fluid material for high school / MA students is very well developed.

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