Beginning Critical Thinking Skills For V Elementary School Students In Bandung
The purpose of the study was to describe the initial critical thinking skills of elementary school students in Bandung city. Descriptive qualitative method was used in this research by involving 64 fifth grade students from three elementary schools in Bandung, West Java in learning natural science of air material. The data was collected using an instrument in the form of a description test that includes all critical thinking indicators assisted by Google form. The data were analyzed by calculating the percentage scores of the students' answers and categorizing them into very high, high, moderate, low, and very low. The results showed that in general, the students' initial critical thinking abilities were included in the low category. There were 27 students (42.19%) in very low category. Low category had 27 students (42.19%); moderate category had 9 students (14.06%); and there were only 1 student in high category (1.56%). Based on critical thinking indicators, the aspect of Advanced Clarification and Strategies & Tactics fell into very low category with an average percentage value of 21.25% and 33.44%, the aspect of Elementary Clarification fell into low category (46.34%), the aspect of Basic Support was in moderate category (58.77%), while the aspect of Inferring was in high category (79.17%). In general, the critical thinking aspect of several elementary schools students in Bandung is still in the low category (47.88%). These results indicate the need to improve the critical thinking aspects of students through habituation of these aspects in learning and the need for information on the impact of their effects through a follow-up study
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