Identifying scientific critical thinking skills of high school students on the static fluid

Abstract

Students as future generations need to be equipped with high-level abilities, such as creative thinking and critical scientific thinking. The purpose of this research is to know how much creative thinking skills and scientific critical thinking are possessed by high school students in Bandung. In this research, the instrument used is a test-shaped essay as many as 12 questions about static fluid topic. The appreciation instruments used in this study were Critical Thinking (ACTA) type instruments. Tests of students’ critical thinking skills were analyzed using the Rasch model. The research population is a grade XI student in one high school in Bandung City. Research samples were selected with a random sampling technique of 32 students. Research results show that students have not been able to analyze the arguments, assess or evaluate, make decisions or solve problems, and make conclusions using inductive or deductive reasoning. It is shown by the low percentage of scientific critical thinking ability on every aspect, Critical thinking ability of 1 26.5%, Critical thinking ability of 2 23%, Critical thinking ability of 3 13%. It was concluded that the student’s scientific critical thinking skill level in the static fluid is motionless very low.