Development Needs Analysis of Teaching Materials for Improving Critical Thinking Skills Students in Century 21

Abstract

Critical thinking is a skill students need in 21st century learning. These skills will be useful for students to solve problems and lead to lifelong learning. Therefore, it needs teaching materials that fit the needs and demands of the curriculum. This study aims to analyze the need for developing teaching materials to improve critical thinking skills. Teachers, students and documents become subjects in research. The method of research used qualitative research. The findings show that the teaching materials used have not led to improve students’ skills. Therefore, it is necessary to develop teaching materials based on the results of needs analysis in this research.