DEVELOPING SCIENCE LEARNING INSTRUMENTS BASED ON LOCAL WISDOM TO IMPROVE STUDENT’S CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
Abstract: This research aims
to develop learning instruments of science i.e. textbook, student worksheet,
syllabus, and lesson plan based on local wisdom that can improve critical
thinking skills of junior high school students. Indicators of student's
critical thinking skills include interpretation, analysis, evaluation and inference.
This study is a Research and Development by using analysis, desaign,
development, implementation and evaluation (ADDIE) method. Expert validation
was conducted with the expert test related to the format, content/material, and
language. The instruments ware used on the collection data are documentations,
validation sheets, observation sheets, and tests. The result of the instrument
in the 7th grade of junior high school at Bustanul Ulum Panti Jember showed
that there are the improvement of critical thinking skills of student based on
the data from test and observation. According to indicator of critical thinking
skills, the n-gain value is around 0.47, means moderate interpretation. The
conclusions of this research are the learning instruments of science based on
local wisdom which develope in the valid category is quite effective to improve
students' critical thinking skills.
Author: S. Wahyuni
Journal Code: jpfisikagg150010
