scholarly journals Critical Thinking of Female Students in Solving Mathematical Problems

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 178-185
Author(s):  
Riny Arviana ◽  
Sufyani Prabawanto

Higher order thinking skill is a topic which attracts more attention of researchers in education field. Critical thinking belongs to higher order thinking skills. This kind of thinking should be had by everyone. Critical thinking belongs to 21st century skills Solving real world-mathematical problem regularly is assumed as one of ways encouraging one to grow and to enhance his critical thinking. A person who has good critical thinking skill in solving mathematical problems is considered to also think critically well in living his daily life. This study aims to investigate the critical thinking skill of female students consisting of ability in giving argument, drawing conclusion, and evaluating conclusion. A case study was carried out to four female students who were recruited based on their volunteering. Their critical thinking skills were evaluated by using essay test and interview. Participants’ critical thinking in solving mathematical problems is classified into high, medium, or low level. FS-1 and FS-4 are classified as low-level critical thinker. FS-2 and FS-3 are classified as high-level critical thinker. It is recommended to conduct similar study with larger sample involving both male and female students to compare their critical thinking in solving mathematical problems.

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-60
Author(s):  
Niken Dwiretno Galuh Agrikaltarini ◽  
Susanto Susanto ◽  
Ahmad Munir

This study aims to figure out how students implement their analyzing skill as seen from their activity in examining their peers’ narrative compositions posted in instagram. The researcher collected the data in the form of written expressions (sentences) by observing students’ analyzing skill processes when they examined their peers’ narrative compositions through comment feature in their peers’ captions. The findings showed that the activities of examining peers’ narrative compositions posted in instagram was belong to the real and meaningful transfer learning of near transfer. Next,  two students (middle and high achievers) could fulfill five out of eleven criteria of critical thinking skill. Furthermore, both students solved problems in their own compositions better than in their peers’ compositions. Unfortunately, the low achiever did not give any feedback comments to her peers’ compositions. Thus, she had not applied her analyzing skill yet. In short, the actual evidence of analyzing skill implementation when students analyze their peers’ narrative compositions posted in instagram is possible to justify. Keywords: examine, HOT skills, social media.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Diyas Age Larasati

ABSTRAKPembelajaran IPS SD menjadi pembelajaran yang membosankan, karena guru belum menerapkan model, metode, strategi pembelajaran yang inovatif. Guru juga hanya melatih siswa untuk hafalan-hafalan konsep IPS, belum melatih berpikir kritis. Discovery learning sebagai salah satu model pembelajaran memiliki keunggulan mengaktifkan siswa. Tahapan-tahapan model discovery learning mendukung siswa untuk berpikir kritis. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui pengaruh model discovery learning berbasis higher order thinking skill terhadap kemampan berpikir kritis. Penelitian ini berjenis eksperimen semu, dengan rancangan Non Equivalent Control Group Design. Kelas eksperimen menerapkan model discovery learning berbasis Higher Order Thinking Skill, sedangkan kelas kontrol menerapkan model penugasan dan diskusi berbasis Higher Order Thinking Skill. Penelitian ini menggunakan populasi kelas V SDN Banyu Urip IX Surabaya. Dua kelas dipilih secara random sampling sebagai sampel penelitian. Kelas V-A berjumlah 32 siswa sebagai kelas eksperimen. Kelas V-B berjumlah 30 siswa sebagai kelas kontrol. Intrumen penelitian ini menggunakan soal (pretest dan posttest) dalam bentuk essai berjumlah 4 butir soal. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan penskoran terhadap hasil pretest dan posttest. Uji T digunakan untuk menguji hasil data penelitian. Hasil data penelitian menunjukkan rata-rata gainscore kelas eksperimen sebesar 5,75 lebih tinggi daripada kelas kontrol sebesar 2,6. Hasil data yang menggunakan uji-t. Hal ini dapat dilihat dari nilai t= 7,986 dan signifikansi dua ekor 0,000, sehingga p< 0,05. Hal tersebut membuktikan bahwa terdapat pengaruh model discovery learning berbasis higher order thinking skill terhadap kemampan berpikir kritis.Kata Kunci : Discovery Learning, Higher Order Thinking Skill, Berpikir kritisABSTRACTElementary school social studies learning becomes boring learning, because teachers have not applied innovative models, methods, and learning strategies. The teacher also only trains students to memorize social science concepts, not to train critical thinking. Discovery learning as one of the learning models has the advantage of activating students. The stages of the discovery learning model support students to think critically. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of discovery learning models based on higher order thinking skills on critical thinking skills. This research is a quasi-experimental type, with a Non Equivalent Control Group Design. The experimental class applies the discovery learning model based on the Higher Order Thinking Skill, while the control class applies the assignment and discussion model based on the Higher Order Thinking Skill. This study uses a population of class V SDN Banyu Urip IX Surabaya. Two classes were chosen by random sampling as a research sample. Class V-A numbered 32 students as an experimental class. Class V-B totaling 30 students as a control class. The instruments of this study used 4 questions (pretest and posttest) in the form of essays. Data collection techniques used scoring of the results of the pretest and posttest. T test is used to test the results of research data. The results of the research data show that the average gaincore of the experimental class was 5.75 higher than the control class of 2.6. The results of data using the t-test. This can be seen from the value of t = 7.986 and the significance of two tails is 0.000, so that p <0.05. This proves that there is an influence of discovery learning model based on higher order thinking skills on critical thinking skills.Keywords: Discovery Learning, Higher Order Thinking Skill, Critical Thinking


MATHEdunesa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 570-578
Author(s):  
TRI PUTIH LESTARI

Critical thinking skills are the ability to think individuals in managing information, finding solution, and evaluating the problems obtained based on six criteria, namely (1) Focus, (2) Reason, (3) Inference, (4) Situation, (5) Clarity and (6) Overview. HOTS questions are a type of question that can help hone students' critical thinking skills. This research is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach that aims to describe students' critical thinking skills in solving HOTS questions in terms of gender. The instrument used in this study was a math ability test and HOTS questions. The subjects used in this study consisted of two junior high school students, one male student and one female student with high math ability. The results of the research on male students' critical thinking skills in solving HOTS questions show that male students are able to understand and find the essence of the problem, can provide reasons that support the way male students use, and can draw conclusions using the method that male students have used, so that male students meet the indicators of critical thinking Focus, Reason, and Inference. The ability to think critically of female students shows that female students can understand and find the essence of the problem, can provide reasons that support the way female students use it, can draw conclusions using the method that female students have determined, female students can reveal important factors that support the method used , and can describe the term at every step of the completion, so that female students meet the indicators of critical thinking Focus, Reason, Inference, Situation, and Clarity. Keywords: Critical Thinking, Higher Order Thinking Skill


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-45
Author(s):  
Devi Apriliana Amesa Putri M. ◽  
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Maryani Maryani ◽  
Pramudya Dwi Aristya Putra ◽  
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...  

Critical thinking students can be improved by making questions in the test instrument categorized as Higher Order Thinking Skill (HOTS), because students are given HOTS category questions, it will train students in high-level problem-solving. This research develops a test instrument in the category of Higher Order Thinking Skill (HOTS) based on Wondershare Quiz Creator because it can train students to use the development of Science and Technology. The purpose of this development research to developing a test instrument based on Wondershare Quiz Creator to know the completeness of student learning outcomes and the critical thinking of students. This research used Research and Development (R & D) type and the sample as many as 35 students of XII MIPA 4 in SMAN 1 Tanggul. This design research used Plomp and Nieveen’s development style. Product testing is carried out online using the test instrument software that has been developed. The test instrument developed was declared valid and could be used in learning, from 35 students, there are 5 students who have completed their learning outcomes, and there are 2students who have very high critical thinking skills. Keywords: Completeness learning outcomes, Critical thinking skills, Higher Order Thinking Skill (HOTS), Test instrument


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-55
Author(s):  
Nahnu Robid Jiwandono

Abstrak: Dewasa ini, critical thinking atau yang lebih dikenal dengan keterampilan berpikir kritis menjadi topik yang sering dibahas karena merupakan kemampuan yang mutlak dimiliki di era milenial ini. Terlebih pada bidang pendidikan, mulai dari tingkat sekolah dasar, sekolah menengah, sampai di tingkat pendidikan tinggi. Pendidikan sudah tidak relevan lagi jika masih mengajarkan anak dengan sistem menghafal materi-materi sehingga pembelajaran hanya fokus pada mengingat saja. Padahal, yang lebih penting adalah peserta didik memahami, menganalisis, mengevaluasi, atau bahkan menciptakan berbagai macam pemecahan masalah dari berbagai masalah yang ada pada materi-materi pembelajaran. Kreativitas merupakan hal yang sangat penting di sini. Melatih anak untuk berpikir kritis terhadap sesuatu dan menawarkan solusi yang masuk akal perlu dijadikan titik fokus pembelajaran bahkan penilaian. Oleh karena itu, mengingat pentingnya keterampilan berpikir kritis ini, peneliti mencoba untuk memaparkan karakteristik keterampilan berpikir kritis pada pembelajaran Mata Kuliah Fonologi yang dilaksanakan oleh mahasiswa semester II. Karakteristik ini meliputi soal yang digunakan dalam evaluasi pembelajaran dan juga hasil evaluasi yang didapatkan. Dengan demikian, diharapkan dapat menghasilkan gambaran keterampilan berpikir kritis pada pengaplikasian pembelajaran di kelas.  Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan masih rendahnya keterampilan berpikir kritis mahasiswa ketika mengerjakan soal-sal HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills). Kata Kunci: berpikir kritis, evaluasi pembelajaran, HOTS   Abstract: Nowadays, critical thinking or better known as critical thinking skills is a topic that is often discussed because it is an absolute ability to have in this millennial era. Especially in the field of education, starting from the elementary school level, secondary school, up to the level of higher education. Education is no longer relevant if it still teaches children with a system of memorizing materials so learning only focuses on remembering it. In fact, what is more important is students understand, analyze, evaluate, or even create various kinds of problem solving from various problems that exist in learning materials. Creativity is very important here. Train children to think critically about something and offer solutions that make sense need to be the focal point of learning and even assessment. Therefore, given the importance of this critical thinking skill, the researcher tries to explain the characteristics of critical thinking skills in the learning of Phonology Courses conducted by the second semester students. These characteristics include the questions used in the evaluation of learning and also the evaluation results obtained. Thus, it is expected to produce a picture of critical thinking skills in the application of learning in the classroom. The results of this study indicate that students' critical thinking skills are still low when working on HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) questions. Keywords: critical thinking, evaluation of learning, HOTS


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-134
Author(s):  
Mohammad Mulyadi Prasetyo ◽  
Nurhidayah Nurhidayah

This research is a descriptive study where data is collected with the aim of knowing the characteristics and obtaining information about the Higher Order Thinking Skill (HOTS) type of Final Exam questions. The subject of this research is the Biology Final Semester Examination for the 2020/202 Academic Year. This research has two stages, namely: Preparation and implementation stage to obtain documents in the form of school exam questions. Research data were collected through: (1) Problem Analysis, Researchers, biology education lecturers, and biology teachers analyzed each question from 3 characteristics that were fulfilled in each item, namely indicators consisting of stimulus, critical thinking skills, and solving abilities. problem. (2). Carry out FGD (Focus Group Discussion) to determine whether each item is included in the type of stimulus, critical thinking ability, and problem solving ability. (3) Tabulate the data for the results of the analysis of each question number. then the results of the analysis are tabulated on each indicator. The results obtained in this study are almost all HOTS type questions (95%), on the characteristics of almost all items (94.2%) in accordance with the provisions of competency achievement indicators. On the stimulus indicator, all HOTS type questions have a stimulus. Where "half" of the HOTS questions is stimulated by pictures, "less than half" is stimulated by case fragments and a small portion is stimulated by diagrams, tables, and examples. In critical thinking indicators, 91.86% of the "almost all" categories of HOTS questions have critical thinking characteristics, in addition that "a small part" (26.23%) of HOTS questions have problem solving characteristics including problem solving questions with indicators of identifying problems, identifying non-conforming problems, and solving problems based on data.


Author(s):  
Intan Permata Sari And Indra Hartoyo

This study is aimed at (1) analyzing reading exercises based Bloom’s taxonomy for VIII grade in English on Sky textbook. (2) Found the distribution of the lower and higher order thinking skill in reading exercises. (3) To reason for level reading exercises. After analyzed the data, the result of the data analysis also infers that the six levels of Bloom’s taxonomy in reading exercises weren’t applied totally. The creating skill doesn’t have distribution in reading exercise, and the understanding – remembering level more dominant than another levels. The distribution of the higher order thinking level was lower than the lower order thinking level and the six levels are not appropriate with the proportion for each level of education based Bloom’s taxonomy, such as the distribution of the creating level in the reading exercise must be a concern because no question that belong to the creating level. It was concluded that reading exercises in English on Sky textbook cannot improve students' critical thinking skills for VIII grade.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syahdiani Syahdiani ◽  
Soeparman Kardi ◽  
I Gusti Made Sanjaya

This study aims to describe the feasibility of interactive multimedia based inquiry on material Human Reproduction System to improve learning outcomes and practice students critical thinking skill. The feasibility product is measuring by validity, practically and effectiveness result. The validity product by looking expert media, and content expert valued. The practicaly instructional package showed by learning implementation, and students intrested . The effectiveness by looking at learning outcome and the diffrence between the scores of pretest and posttest achieved by the students. This research is design by instructional learning package design  based on  Dick  and Carey model , developing  design media based on ASSURE model and involved XI Science grade  at SMA Negeri 1 Batu Sopang. Data from the expert of media, content, design and  students intrested were obtained by using observation and test.The data was obtained analyzed by descriftif analyzes technic. The result of research show that the validity of learning material is valid category, implementation  is very good category . Aspect of the student response individual user is good, with 32,13 % very agree and 55,3 % agree at the real implementation. The students intrested on lerning model is good category. Learning achievment of cognitive, psychomotoric and sosial spiritual attitude  aspect than increasing critical thinking skill. N (gain scores) analyses showed that there are  average gain score increasing 0,8(high gain). This study thus showed that interactive multimedia base on inquiry developed feasible to improve learning outcome and practice students critical thinking skills Penelitian ini bertujuan mendeskripsikan kelayakan  multimedia interaktif berbasis inkuiri materi sistem reproduksi manusia untuk meningkatkan hasil belajar dan melatih keterampilan berpikir kritis siswa SMA. Kelayakan perangkat diukur dari  validitas, kepraktisan dan efektivitas. Validitas perangkat dilihat dari penilaian ahli media dan ahli materi. Kepraktisan perangkat dilihat dari keterlaksanaan pembelajaran, respon dan minat siswa. Efektivitas perangkat dilihat dari hasil belajar siswa serta perbedaan antara skor pretest dan posttest yang dicapai siswa. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain  pengembangan perangkat pembelajaran dengan  mengadaptasi  model Dick and Carey, desain pengembangan media menggunakan model ASSURE dan melibatkan para siswa kelas XI IPA SMA Negeri 1 Batu Sopang sebagai sampel pengujian. Data uji ahli media, isi,  desain,  dan respon siswa  dikumpulkan dengan menggunakan angket,  sedangkan  uji coba  kepada siswa diperoleh dengan menggunakan lembar observasi dan tes. Data yang didapatkan selanjutnya dianalisis menggunakan teknik analisis deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa validitas perangkat pembelajaran berkategori  valid,  keterlaksanaannya berkategori  terlaksana dengan  baik. Ditinjau dari aspek  tanggapan siswa pengguna, media  hasil pengembangan berkategori baik, dengan persentase 32,3 % sangat setuju dan 55,3 % setuju  pada implementasi di  lapangan. Minat siswa pada model pembelajaran yang diterapkan berkategori baik Ketuntasan hasil belajar kognitif, psikomotor dan sikap spiritual sosial tercapai, serta peningkatan keterampilan berpikir kritis. Analisa N(Gain Scores)  menunjukkan bahwa  terdapat peningkatan gain skor rata-rata 0,8 (kategori tinggi). Dengan demikian, penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa multimedia interaktif berbasis inkuiri yang dikembangkan layak digunakan untuk meningkatkan hasil belajar dan melatih keterampilan berpikir kritis siswa.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Karim Karim ◽  
Taufiq Hidayanto ◽  
Kamaliyah Kamaliyah ◽  
Maulana Fatiehurrizqie Arrasyid

Pembelajaran yang berorientasi pada Higher Order Thinking Skill (HOTS) dapat dirancang guru untuk kegiatan proses pembelajaran atau dalam penyusunan soal evaluasi. Soal yang berorientasi pada HOTS diperlukan agar siswa terbiasa dan terlatih untuk menyelesaikan soal yang tidak hanya bersifat hafalan dan pemahaman, maupun penerapan konsep. Banyak penyuluhan atau pelatihan yang telah diperoleh guru dalam membuat soal matematika. Meskipun demikian, pelatihan yang secara spesifik untuk membuat soal matematika yang berorientasi HOTS sangat kurang bahkan belum pernah mereka ikuti. Oleh karena itu, perlu diadakan pelatihan untuk membuat soal matematika yang berorientasi HOTS. Tujuan dari kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat (PKM) adalah membimbing guru matematika SMP dalam menyusun soal matematika yang berorientasi HOTS. Kegiatan yang dilaksanakan bekerjasama dengan MGMP Matematika Kabupaten Banjar. Jumlah peserta yang hadir pada saat kegiatan ada 46 orang. Secara ringkas, tahapan kegiatan meliputi menyiapkan materi sebagai bahan pembimbingan pembuatan soal berorientasi HOTS dan melaksanakan pembimbingan. Kegiatan PKM ini telah menghasilkan 50 buah soal matematika yang berorientasi HOTS. Kategori soal berdasarkan level HOTS, 39 buah (78%) termasuk soal analisis dan 11 buah (22%) termasuk soal evaluasi.The Learning that orienting to the Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) can be designed by the teacher for the learning process activities or in the preparation of evaluation questions. HOTS-oriented problems are needed so that students are accustomed and trained to solve problems that are not only memorizing, understanding, and applying concepts. Teachers have obtained much training in making mathematical problems. However, the training specifically in making HOTS-oriented mathematics problems is lacking. Therefore, the training needs to be held to cause HOTS-oriented mathematics problems. The purpose of community service activities is to guide junior high school mathematics teachers in preparing HOTS-oriented mathematics problems. The activity has been carried out in collaboration with the Mathematics MGMP of the Banjar District. The number of participants who attended the activity was 46 people. In summary, the stages of activities include preparing material as guidance material for making HOTS-oriented problems and implementing mentoring. This community service activity has produced 50 HOTS-oriented mathematics problems. The problem categories are based on the HOTS level; 39 items (78%) included analysis problems, and 11 items (22%) included evaluation problems. 


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