Open AccessEnhancing critical thinking skills and information literacy of students through integrated science teaching materials
Author(s) -
Tariza Fairuz,
Ida Kaniawati,
Parlindungan Sinaga
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1280/3/032045
Subject(s) - mathematics education , critical thinking , class (philosophy) , test (biology) , information literacy , matching (statistics) , control (management) , psychology , literacy , computer science , pedagogy , mathematics , artificial intelligence , paleontology , statistics , biology
Critical thinking and information literacy are skills that need to be developed to deal with the challenges of the 21 st century. This study aimed to enhance critical thinking skills and information literacy of secondary school students through developed integrated science teaching materials in theme interaction of light with organisms. This study used quasi-experimental methods and the matching-only pre-test – post-test control group design. Subjects of this study were eighth-grade students. This research used two classes selected purposely with experimental class using developed teaching materials and control class using teaching materials commonly used in school. There were two instruments applied in this study, critical thinking skills test and information literacy test. Data was analysed by normalized gains, Cohen’s D, and t-test. Based on the results of data analysis, it could be concluded that, the used of developed integrated science teaching materials was effective in enhancing critical thinking skills and information literacy.