The Effect of Experimental Skills toward Senior High School Students’ Critical Thinking Abilities through Discovery Learning Model

DOI

10.2991/esic-18.2019.5How to use a DOI?

Keywords

experimental skills, critical thinking skills, discovery learning, senior high school

Abstract

The experimental skill is an ability in which students are able to do the experiment, observe the processes, and write the result of their experiment. Critical thinking is skillful in thinking deeply about the problem or something, such as knowledge about methods, investigation and rational thinking, and such an ability to apply those methods. Discovery learning is a learning model that given the students a chance to search and find out by their selves, using problem approach, whereas teachers only give instruction and direction. This study aimed to know the effect of experimental skills by using discovery learning toward Senior High School students’ critical thinking skills. The subject in this study were 29 students of XI IPA 2 Class. This study conducted at SMAN 14 Samarinda in the Academic Year of 2017/2018. The data collected using experimental skills observation form and critical thinking skills test. The result showed that the mean score of students’ experiment skills was 68, and the mean score of students’ critical thinking skills was 72. Those data were analyzed by simple linear regression and revealed that there was an effect between students’ experiment skills and their critical thinking skills, i.e. 67,8%.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Laili Komariyah
AU  - Mira Karimah
PY  - 2019/06
DA  - 2019/06
TI  - The Effect of Experimental Skills toward Senior High School Students’ Critical Thinking Abilities through Discovery Learning Model
BT  - Proceedings of the Educational Sciences International Conference (ESIC 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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