Analysis of Critical Thinking Skills of Senior High School Students in Biological Learning

Abstract

This study aims to describe the critical thinking skills in students of XI (eleventh) grade. The type of this research was descriptive. This research was carried out on students of XI grade (N = 108) by working on tests of critical thinking skills with instruments adapted from Facione including interpretation, analysis, evaluation, explanation, conclusion, and self-regulation. The results showed that students' critical thinking skills in interpretation were in the high category 77%, while in analysis was 46%, evaluation was 51%, explanation was 45%, conclusion was 54%, and self-regulation was 57%, which were classified as low category. For an average of all indicators, it was 55%. The conclusion of this study showed that students' critical thinking skills were still in the low category, so that the development was needed in the learning process to be able to improve several indicators of critical thinking skills.