Improving students' critical thinking skills through the application of a contextual STEAM-based electricity kit ; Peningkatan kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa melalui penerapan KIT listrik berbasis STEAM kontekstual

The nation's current generation must master 21st-century skills, including critical thinking skills, to face today's world competition with rapid technological advances. This contextual STEAM-based electrical KIT aims to describe students' necessary thinking abilities and discover the differences in critical thinking abilities between the experimental and control classes. The design used in the study, namely the post-test-only control group and the type of quasi-experimental research. This study included all class IX students of SMP Muhammadiyah Kuok TA.2022/2023 as a population. A sample of 47 students consisted of class IX.1 as the experimental group and category IX.2 as the control group. Posttest critical thinking skills in dynamic electricity material comprised 12 multiple choice questions previously tested for validity and reliability as a data collection instrument. The average posttest results of students' critical thinking skills were used for descriptive analysis with SPSS version 25, and normality, homogeneity, and hypothesis tests were used for inferential analysis. This study shows that students' critical thinking skills regarding dynamic electricity material can be improved by applying contextual STEAM-based electricity KIT contextual learning. This can be seen in the average value obtained in the experimental class is better than the control class. ; Generasi bangsa saat ini dituntut untuk dapat menguasai kemampuan abad ke-21, salah satunya adalah kemampuan berpikir kritis yang diperlukan untuk menghadapi persaingan dunia saat ini dengan kemajuan teknologi yang pesat. Penggunaan KIT listrik berbasis STEAM kontekstual ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan kemampuan berpikir kritis siswa dan mengetahui perbedaan kemampuan berpikir kritis antara kelas eksperimen dan kelas kontrol. Desain yang digunakan dalam penelitian, yaitu post-test-only control group dan jenis penelitian kuasi-eksperimental. Penelitian ini mengikutsertakan seluruh siswa kelas IX SMP Muhammadiyah Kuok TA.2022/2023 sebagai populasi. ...