Abstract
This research was conducted to obtain a Free Inquiry Learning Implementation Profile assisted by PhET and Critical Thinking Skills of Senior High School Students on Light Material. The type of this research is descriptive preliminary research and does not test the hypothesis. The research subjects consisted of 111 students. Data collection techniques in a form of questionnaires, teacher interviews, and written tests which has been tested for validity and reliability. Then the data that has been obtained will be analyzed descriptively qualitatively. Based on the study results, findings in the form of 1) The ability of critical thinking skills of students in the low and medium category. The low category with a range of grades from 0 to 45 as many as 44 students where male 15 students, and 29 female students, the medium category with a range of grades from 46 to 75 as many as 63 students where male 4 students and 59 female students, and high category with a range 75 to 100 as many as 4 female students; 2) Criteria for the lowest critical thinking skills is “evaluation” with an average value of 1.00, 3) The implementation of the free inquiry model has the potential to improve student’s critical thinking skills. It can be concluded if the critical thinking skills possessed by students are low, so it is necessary to increase student’s critical thinking skills, namely by the implementation of free inquiry assisted by PhET.
Highlights
The obligation of the State of Indonesia in the shade of the education of its citizens is based on law No 39 of 1999 on Human Rights Chapter 12 that Everyone has the right to protection for their personal development, for obtaining an education, self-prosperous, and improving to become a noble person, responsible, happy and prosperous after prosperity is a human right
Students' Critical Thinking Ability in Light Materials Based on the evaluation with the above criteria, a critical thinking skill score varies between students is obtained
To determine the level of critical thinking skills, students are conducted by testing questions with critical thinking aspects such as interpretation, analysis, inference, and evaluation
Summary
The obligation of the State of Indonesia in the shade of the education of its citizens is based on law No 39 of 1999 on Human Rights Chapter 12 that Everyone has the right to protection for their personal development, for obtaining an education, self-prosperous, and improving to become a noble person, responsible, happy and prosperous after prosperity is a human right. The Government of Indonesia held a mandatory 12-years learning program aimed at improving the quality of human resources to compete globally. For human resources to be able to develop and compete globally, the application of an education system that is a transfer of knowledge from teacher to student, but students are allowed to solve problems that require observation, search, experimentation, analysis, thinking and conclude independently to a concept or theory. For example (1) students are involved with scientific questions, events, or phenomena; (2) students are accustomed to digging ideas, testing hypotheses, solving a problem and presenting observations; (3) students are involved in the analysis and achievement of data, and clarify the concepts previously described by the teacher; (4) Rohmah & Prahani. Free inquiry emphasizes learners learn independently, ranging from asking questions to finding solutions to a problem, so it is important to learners’ independence (Putri et al, 201 5)
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