scholarly journals Critical Thinking Skills in Elementary School Curricula in some Arab Countries—A Comparative Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raja Omar Bahatheg
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Inductive Reasoning ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Science Textbooks ◽  
School Subjects

This study aims to analyze and compare school subjects to determine the extent to which critical thinking skills are being engaged in school subjects’ questions and activities in public education. Five Arab countries are included in this paper; Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Arab Republic of Egypt, and The Tunisian Republic, in elementary school levels (first, second, and third grades.)The study found that all Arab countries focus on operating inductive reasoning skills in their subjects, followed by reasoning and observation, sequentially, while dismissing credibility and assumptions skills. Saudi Arabia focused on developing critical thinking skills in science textbooks for the past three academic years, while Kuwait had the same focus on their Arabic language classes. Both the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and Egypt have paid a measurable attention to engaging critical thinking skills in Mathematics and the Arabic language, as well as Tunisia in their science textbooks. The least effective subjects in operating critical thinking skills were the Arabic language in Saudi Arabia, science in Kuwait, Domestic Economics in Egypt, and Islamic education in Jordan and Tunisia.

scholarly journals Efektivitas Penggunaan Media Sains Flipbook Berbasis Kontekstual untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Berfikir Kritis Siswa

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-21
Author(s):  
Tika Aprilia
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Control Group Design ◽  
Science Textbooks ◽  
Critical Thinking Ability ◽  
Thinking Ability ◽  
Science Media

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui keefektifan media sains flipbook berbasis kontekstual dalam meningkatkan kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa kelas V Sekolah Dasar. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah penelitian kuantitatif dengan metode eksperimen. Desain eksperimen yang digunakan yaitu desain true-experimental berupa post-test only control group design. Sampel penelitian ini terdiri dari kelas V-1 SDN Mangkubumen Lor sebanyak 26 siswa sebagai kelas eksperimen, sedangkan kelas kontrolnya yaitu kelas VA SDN Cemara Dua sebanyak 26 siswa. Pemilihan sampel sekolah dasar tersebut dilakukan secara purposive sampling. Instrumen yang digunakan berupa butir soal tes untuk mengetahui kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa yang disusun berdasarkan integrasi antara indikator kemampuan berpikir kritis dengan domain kemampuan kognitif dalam taksonomi Bloom yang telah diuji validitas dan reliabilitas butir soal. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa nilai rata-rata hasil belajar siswa yang menggunakan media sains flipbook berbasis kontekstual (88,12) lebih tinggi dibandingkan dengan nilai rata-rata hasil belajar siswa yang menggunakan buku paket IPA pada umumnya (75,31). Hasil uji independen sample t-test diperoleh signifikansi 0,000 < 0,05 artinya H0 ditolak menunjukkan bahwa ada perbedaan nilai kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa pada kelas eksperimen yang menggunakan media sains flipbook berbasis kontekstual dengan kelas kontrol yang menggunakan media buku cetak atau paket IPA. Skor nilai kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa yang menggunakan media sains flipbook berbasis kontekstual lebih tinggi daripada skor nilai kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa yang hanya menggunakan media buku paket IPA. Namun dalam penggunaan media sains flipbook berbasis kontekstual ini sangat membutuhkan sarana prasarana atau fasilitas sekolah yang memadai. The Effectiveness of the Use of Flipbook Science Media Based on Contextual to Improve Critical Thinking Ability of StudentsThis study aims at determining the effect of flipbook science media base on contextual to enhance critical thinking skills for students of class V in elementary schools. This research is quantitative research by using the experimental method. The experiment design used is a true-experiment design in the form of a post-test-only control group design. The sample of this study is a V-1 class of Mangkubumen Lor state elementary school with as many as 26 students as the experiment class, while the control class was VA class of the Cemara Dua state elementary school as many as 26 students. The selection of the three elementary school samples was done by purposive sampling. The instrument used is a form of test items at determining students' critical thinking skills compiled based on the integration between indicators of critical thinking skills with the domain of cognitive abilities in Bloom's taxonomy that had been tested for validity and reliability of the items. The results of this study indicate that the average value of students learning outcome using flipbook science media base on contextual (88.12) is higher than the average value of students learning outcome using natural science textbooks (75.31). The results of the independent sample t-test obtained a significance of 0.000 <0.05, meaning that H0 is rejected, indicating that there is a value of students' critical thinking skills in the experimental class using flipbook science media base on contextual with the control class using science textbooks media or science packages. Scores the value of the critical thinking ability of students using flipbook science media base on contextual is higher than the value of the critical thinking ability of students only using the science textbooks media. However, the use of flipbook science media base on contextual really requires adequate school infrastructure or facilities.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Critical Thinking with Emotional Intelligence and Creativity among Elementary School Principals in Bojnord City, Iran

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 33-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamid Saremi ◽  
Sosan Bahdori
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Elementary School Principals ◽  
Deductive Reasoning ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Inductive Reasoning ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
The Relationship

This study aimed at investigating the relationship between critical thinking with emotional intelligence and creativity among elementary school principals in Bojnord. The research method was descriptive. Simple random sampling method was used and the sample included 47 public elementary school principals in Bojnoord. Critical thinking skills were measured in five subgroups by California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST), emotional intelligence was measured by Shering's emotional intelligence questionnaire and creativity was measured by using Rand Sip creativity questionnaire. Data was analyzed by SPSS software and descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation and t-test. The results indicated that there is a positive significant correlation between critical thinking and emotional intelligence among principals (r=385%, p=0.008%) suggesting that by increasing every dimensions of evaluation, inference, inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning, emotional intelligence increases too. It was also found that among five subscales of critical thinking, only analysis didn't have a significant correlation with emotional intelligence. The findings also indicated that there was a significant positive correlation between critical thinking and creativity among principals (p=%47, r=%294) suggesting that by increasing every dimensions of analysis, evaluation, inference, inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning, creativity increases too.

scholarly journals The Impact of Online Mentoring in Implementing RADEC Learning to the Elementary School Teachers’ Competence in Training Students’ Critical Thinking Skills: A Case Study During COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 346-356
Author(s):  
H. Lestari ◽  
W. Sopandi ◽  
U. S. Sa'ud ◽  
B. Musthafa ◽  
D. Budimansyah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Elementary School Teachers ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Online Mentoring ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
The Impact

This study aims to describe the impact of online mentoring activities in implementing the RADEC (Read, Answer, Discuss, Explain, and Create) learning model on the competence of elementary school teachers in training students’ critical thinking skills. The method was a pre-experiment with a one-group pretest-posttest design involving 25 elementary school teachers in Indonesia. The teachers received online mentoring in implementing RADEC learning model. The research instrument was a questionnaire to measure teachers’ knowledge and skills in training critical thinking. The data processing technique was carried out by calculating the mean and the percentage of each item to obtain a description of the teachers’ knowledge and skills in training students’ critical thinking before and after treatment. The data were analyzed inferentially with a paired sample t-test using SPSS version 22 software to see the impact of the treatment on teachers’ competence in training critical thinking. Based on the results of the paired-sample t-test, for both the knowledge and skills aspects, the probability value (sig) was 0.00 <0.05. This result means that there was a significant difference in the knowledge and skills of teachers in training students’ critical thinking skills before and after mentoring activities. The study results indicate that the online mentoring in implementing the RADEC learning model improved teachers’ competence in training elementary school students’ critical thinking skills. 

scholarly journals The Development of Science Learning Tool Oriented Toward Guided Inquiry to Improve Students’ Critical Thinking Skills

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 1394-1402
Author(s):  
Rahmi Nur Habibah ◽  
jandra Kirana ◽  
Raharjo .
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Elementary Students ◽  
Science Learning ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Guided Inquiry

This study aims to produce science learning tools that are valid, practical, and effective which consists of syllabus, lesson plan, teaching material, student activity sheets, and test sheets to improve the critical thinking skills of elementary students. This research was carried out using the 4-D model of adaptation Ibrahim, M., which is define, design, developing, disseminate and tested in class V of Jiken Elementary School, Kedondong I Elementary School, Sudimoro Elementary School, school year 2019/2020 with One-Group Pretest-Posttest Design. Data analysis techniques used are quantitative and qualitative descriptive. The results shows: 1) valid, according to the validity of the three validators with valid categories, 2) practical, in accordance with the level of observers seen from the activity of students increasing at each meeting and implementation of RPP, 3) effective, seen from appearing significantly different from the pretest and posttest test students' critical thinking and positive student responses. Based on the results of data analysis, it can be concluded that the development of science learning tools oriented in guided inquiry is valid, practical, and effective for improving critical thinking skills of elementary students.

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