The Effect of Problem-Based Learning and Critical Thinking Skills on Students’ Learning Outcomes of Vocational Schools
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200218.044How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- problem-based learning, critical thinking skills, learning outcomes
- Abstract
Critical thinking skills are one of the important 21st century competencies. Vocational High Schools should develop critical thinking skills of their students in every learning process. Its graduates do not only require hard skills which are generally easily obsolete. More important skills are soft skills, including the ones to collaborate, communicate, think critically and creatively. This study aimed to analyze the effect of learning models and critical thinking skills on learning outcomes. This type of research was experimental, using a pretest-posttest control group design. The research subjects were students of class XI culinary 1 and class XI culinary 2 SMK YPM 2 (a vocational high school) Taman, Sidoarjo, East Java. The data collection instruments used was achievement tests and observation sheets on learning outcomes of critical thinking skills. The data analysis technique used was Anova. The results showed that there was an influence of the students’ critical thinking skills on the learning outcomes, no effect of the application of learning models on the learning outcomes, and there was an influence of interactions between the critical thinking skills and learning models on the learning outcomes.
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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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TY - CONF AU - Luthfiyah Nurlaela AU - Nur Badriyah AU - Euis Ismayati AU - Ita Fatkhur Ramadhani PY - 2020 DA - 2020/02/21 TI - The Effect of Problem-Based Learning and Critical Thinking Skills on Students’ Learning Outcomes of Vocational Schools BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social, Applied Science, and Technology in Home Economics (ICONHOMECS 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 275 EP - 279 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200218.044 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200218.044 ID - Nurlaela2020 ER -