The Use of Discovery Learning in Improving Students’ Critical Thinking Ability

Ida Ayu Made Trisna Dwi Jayanti

doi:10.36663/tatefl.v1i2.100

Ida Ayu Made Trisna Dwi Jayanti

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https://doi.org/10.36663/tatefl.v1i2.100

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Abstract

Critical thinking ability is an essential ability that students need to compete in the 21 century. It is an ability to think carefully using reason and logic and being able to consider all the consequences of decisions taken to solve a problem. By having an ability to think critically, students are able to analyze and find solutions to any problems given by the teacher or problems they face in the real world. Students' critical thinking ability in Indonesia is still categorized as poor. Hence, teachers must find out the appropriate learning methods and models to train and improve students' critical thinking ability. This paper aims at identify the effectiveness of discovery-based learning model in improving students’ critical thinking ability. By then, teachers are expected to have an overview of how effective discovery-based learning is in improving students’ critical thinking ability.

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Critical thinking is one of the 4C skills that students need to compete in a 21st century
Primary resources mean the data were collected related to the use of discovery learning in improving students’ critical thinking ability, while the secondary resources mean the data were collected from some related books and articles in order to support the current study
The second step was classifying the data related to the use of discovery learning, in improving the students’ critical thinking ability

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Critical thinking is one of the 4C skills that students need to compete in a 21st century. According to Wang (2017), critical thinking is one of the 21st century skills that must be possessed by students from an early age. Padmanabha (2018) saw critical thinking as a way of thinking to assess the information that students read, heard, and saw to make the objective and reasonable judgments. Critical thinking is essential for daily life. Students can make a good decision in solving the problems. This way of thinking makes the students as the active learners

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