Nur Azizah Tohiroh, Nur Aeni Ariyanti
The profile of the critical thinking ability of Public Senior High School students on respiration topic in class XI was observed. There were six schools divided based on upper, middle, and lower categories seen from the UN scores and the list of school graduates were used as the samples. There were 40 students as the model selected randomly in the science class at each school. The research instrument used description questions to measure five indicators: interpretation, analysis, inference, evaluation, and explanation. Meanwhile, the questionnaire measured one indicator, namely the self-regulation indicator. Critical thinking indicators used for observation are included how to interpret, how to analyze, how to inference, how to evaluate, how to explain, and how to organize themselves. The data was analyzed using a descriptive analysis technique based on the percentage of students' critical thinking ability. The research results on Public Senior High School students in Tulungagung Regency showed that all categories (upper, middle and lower) have good critical thinking ability. Furthermore, critical thinking ability based on the completeness of critical thinking indicators shows that regulation, explanation, interpretation, and inference indicators get a suitable category, while analysis and evaluation indicators get a low category. The low critical thinking ability on analysis and evaluation indicators are certainly a concern for teachers as educators this is because thinking ability is a means to achieve educational goals so that students can solve problems at high levels in their lives, so there must be learning innovations as an effort to improve it. © 2024 Author(s).
Department of Biology Education, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
