Inventory of high school students’ critical thinking skills in online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic on momentum and impulse material in Subang Regency

Abstract

This study aims to interpret the inventory of critical thinking skills of high school students in online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic on momentum and impulse materials in Subang Regency. This research is quantitative descriptive. The sample in this study amounted to 91 high school students who selected using purposive sampling technique. The data analysis technique used is descriptive statistics. The instrument used consisted of 10 multiple choice questions which were developed based on indicators of critical thinking skills according to Ennis. The results showed that students’ critical thinking skills in the elementary clarification aspect had a percentage of 47.99% in the medium category, the basic support aspect 32.42% in the low category, the inference aspect 39.93% in the low category, the advance clarification aspect had 23.08 % with low category and strategy and tactics aspect 43.96% with medium category. Overall, the percentage of critical thinking skills of high school students in Subang Regency when learning online is 37.48%. Statistical results show that the Asymp.Sig value is 0.893>0.05, which means that there is no significant difference between the critical thinking skills of male students and female students. The conclusion, the critical thinking skills of high school students towards momentum and impulse material in online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic in Subang Regency are still in the low category. Therefore, it is necessary to make efforts especially during the Covid-19 pandemic to improve the critical thinking skills of high school students regarding momentum and impulse materials.