PENINGKATAN KEMAMPUAN BERPIKIR KRITIS MELALUI INTEGRATED LEARNING PADA MATA PELAJARAN IPS SMP
Abstract: The purpose of this
research is to improve students' critical thinking skillsthrough the
application of integrated learning and accompanied by
contextual-basedinstructional media on social studies subject in junior high
school. This research is aclassroom action research. The subjects were social
studies' teacher and students of 8Bclass in SMP N 11 Surakarta. Data collection
techniques in this study are observation,questionnaire, and test. The data
analysis technique used are the comparative analysistechnique, technique of
quantitative and qualitative analysis. This research was conductedin three
cycles. Based on the data obtained from cycle I to cycle III, the researchshows
that the implementation of the integrated learning can increase students'
criticalthinking skills. The third cycle shows the following condition: 71.79%
of students gavehigh responses to learning undertaken by teachers, 20.5% gave
medium responses, and7.67% gave low responses. Student's achievement in cycle
III shows that 76.92% of thestudents got grades above 70 and as much as 23.08%
obtained score below 70. Succesindicators in this study was reached at the
third cycle.
Penulis: Leny Noviani
Kode Jurnal: jppendidikandd100172