Fostering student’ critical thinking skills in respiratory and excretory system classroom through 5E learning cycle in 11th grade SMAN 2 Malang

Abstract

Critical thinking skills must be part of student learning and the school must be responsible for developing and evaluating critical thinking skills through the teaching and learning process. Fostering of critical thinking skills can be done by applying appropriate learning in the classroom. One of them is learning based on constructivism. The 5E Learning Cycle can trigger students’ critical thinking skills because it involves prior knowledge, non-routine situations, reasoning, cognitive strategies, and involving students in discussions to carry out exploration. This study aims to determine how The 5E Learning Cycle model can improve critical thinking. The type of research used in this research is Classroom Action Research. Research data in the form of critical thinking test results by Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal. The results showed that the average value of critical thinking indicators in the first cycle was 82.806% and the second cycle was 90.016% with an increase of 7.21%. The conclusion is that The 5E Learning Cycle learning can improve students’ critical thinking.