Students' Analytical Thinking Profile Based on Reflective Cognitive Style in Solving Mathematics Problem

Abstract

The objective of this study is to describe students' analytical thinking profile based on reflective cognitive style in solving a mathematics problem, especially in two-dimension materials. This research is a qualitative descriptive study that elaborates the characteristics of analytical thinking including; pre-analytical, analytical-partial, semi-analytical, and complete analytics. Data collection is employed through task-based interviews and data validation is done by time triangulation. The participants of this study are two students at the eleventh grade of State Senior High School (SMAN) 1 Kedungwaru, Tulungagung. They are selected based on the results in answering matching familiar figures test. The results reveal that the subjects have partial analytical thinking characteristics in solving the problem.