The Importance of Appropriate Instructional Methods for Training Students’ Thinking Skill on Environmental Learning

Ayu Lestari,Ashadi Ashadi,Maridi Maridi

doi:10.20961/ijpte.v2i0.19828

Abstract

<p class="Abstract">Instructional method is an important aspect of teaching and learning to determine the activities of teachers and students. Appropriate instructional methods influence many motivational variables of learners such as a tendency to think critically. This research aims to determine the effects of usage of instructional methods for training students’ thinking skill on environmental learning. This study is the quasi-experimental design of post-test only. Two equivalent student groups in secondary school were offered a topic on environmental learning with different instructional methods. The instructional methods were laboratory method and discussion method. The teacher was given to the first group using laboratory method, while the second group was given using discussion method. The effectiveness of different instructional methods was measured quantitatively by an achievement test. The analysis result of post-test showed that there was significantly different between the first group and the second group at a significance level of 0.05 for the interest of the first group. According to these findings, we suggest applying laboratory method instead of discussion method for training students’ thinking skill on environmental learning.</p>

Highlights

Developing students’ thinking skill is a major educational goal in societies around the world (Larsson, 2017)
This research generally aims to determine the effects of usage of instructional methods for training students’ thinking skill on environmental learning
The data were called having significantly different between the first group and the second group on students’ thinking skill if the value of the calculation of significance is smaller than the significance level used in this research is α = 5% (0.05)

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Developing students’ thinking skill is a major educational goal in societies around the world (Larsson, 2017). Thinking skill involves making judicious purposeful judgments as a result of engaging in a process of analysis, interpretation evaluation, inference, explanation, and reflection (Facione, 2013). Students who have good thinking skill will be finding a new experience of study to apply the information they got (Heong, 2011). Students could think systematically to express their taught/ideas, to analyze issues, and enhance their understanding skill. The teaching of thinking skill is important for all students in all subjects. Different disciplines are characterized by particular approaches to thinking skill, and a large part of studying those disciplines means learning to think like an expert of that discipline (Forawi, 2016)

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