Open AccessContent analysis of critical-rand creative-thinking skills in middle-school science books on environmental pollution material
Author(s) -
Muhammad Muntaha,
Muhammad Masykuri,
Baskoro Adi Prayitno
Publication year - 2021
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 - 10.1088/1742-6596/1806/1/012138
Subject(s) - critical thinking , originality , creativity , fluency , mathematics education , creative thinking , psychology , pedagogy , social psychology
Critical- and creative-thinking skills are important competencies students must have to encounter the challenges of the 21 st century. The development of teaching materials that emphasize critical- and creative-thinking skills is very necessary for students to improve these skills. This research aims to analyze three middle school science books based on critical- and creative-thinking skills on environmental pollution material. The research procedure consisted of developing an instrument for assessing critical-0and creative-thinking skills, validating the indicators of the instruments using expert judgment, and conducting an assessment of middle school science book. The development of critical-thinking skill indicators refers to Facione while the indicators-of creatives thinking skills refer to Torrance. The results of the analyses show-that the average critical-thinking skill indicator achievement for the environmental pollution material on interpretation is 2.83%, analysis 2.75%, conclusion 3.16%, evaluation 2.83%, explanation 2.91%, and self-regulation 2.33%. The achievement of creative-thinking skill indicators on average is 2.66% for fluency, 2.66% for flexibility, 2.41% for originality, and 2.75% for elaboration. Students have low critical- and creative-thinking skills on the air pollution and pollution sub-materials.