The Implementation of HOT Lab Activity to Improve Students Critical Thinking Skills

Abstract

Critical thinking as part of 21st century skills is important to be mastered by students in preparing them to compete in real life challenge.However, verificative lab activity implemented in physics class, is ineffective to provide opportunity to develop the skills. Under those need, a quasi experiment study with pretest postest Verificative Lab Implemented group design was conducted to investigate how is implementation of Higher Order Thinking (HOT) Lab design in improving students critical thinking skills compare to those who conducted verificative lab. The result shown that there was significant improvement of student critical thinking skills in HOT Lab Implemented Group compare to those in Verificative lab group.