Analysis of Students' Critical Thinking Skills as an Effort to Implement STEM-based PBL

Abstract

Advances in science and innovation affect the progress of education in Indonesia. The current situation in Indonesia is characterized by a lack of competent human resources (HR). A quality education helps students develop the values they need to live. The purpose of this study is to describe students' critical thinking skills so that efforts to apply the STEM-based PBL approach can provide maximum results of research that will be carried out in grade VII of SMP IT Ibnu Sina. A quantitative descriptive approach is used in this study. Description of 10 questions based on critical thinking is the instrument used in this study. The instrument to be used has been validated. The results of expert validation of the questions received an average score of 91.55%. The results of the data analysis showed that the students' critical thinking skills in the interpretation indicator obtained an average score of 64% so that it could be interpreted in the good category. In the analysis indicator, an average score of 64% was obtained, which can be interpreted in the good category. In the conclusion indicator, an average score of 64% was obtained, which was included in the good category. Similarly, in the evaluation indicator, the average score obtained by students is 60% which is included in the sufficient category. As well as in the elaboration indicator, the average score obtained by students is 60%, which can be interpreted in the sufficient category