The Ease of Information through Internet – Does it Affect Students’ Motivation to Think Critically?

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10.2991/assehr.k.220404.268How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Critical Thinking Motivation; Expectancy; Values

Abstract

The internet has become a major part of human life, including campus life, especially since COVID-19 pandemic arises. Students are doing the learning process online and the information they need during studying is provided mostly by the internet. Therefore, interaction between students and the internet may have an impact on their cognitive processes. This study aims to reveal whether the length of time students interact with the internet and the ease of information they perceived can affect their critical thinking motivation. Critical thinking motivation is a disposition that activates critical thinking skills which describe how a person thinks rigorously. 202 students from several universities in Jakarta, participated in this study. Critical Thinking Motivation Scale (CTMS) were applied to reveal the expectancy and value dimension of critical thinking. The results showed that there was no difference in critical thinking motivation based on the length of time interacting with the internet (p>0.05) as well as based on the ease of information obtained from the internet perceive by the student (p>0.05) All respondents showed high critical thinking motivation, but 82% of the students participated in this study, perceived the ease of information for academic purposes through the internet as not easy. This indicate that students’ critical thinking motivation was not affected by the ease of information obtained through the internet because students perceived that the internet doesn’t provide enough information that they need for academic purposes.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ira Puspitawati
AU  - Praesti Sedjo
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/21
TI  - The Ease of Information through Internet – Does it Affect Students’ Motivation to Think Critically?
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd Tarumanagara International Conference on the Applications of Social Sciences and Humanities (TICASH 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1657
EP  - 1662
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220404.268
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220404.268
ID  - Puspitawati2022
ER  -