<div align="center"><table width="645" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="439"><p><strong>Abstract</strong>: Learning is an activity between educators, students and learning resources. Appropriate learning has a major impact on students, such as developing creativity, critical thinking skills. The research was conducted using a quasi-experimental method at the Dharma Acarya Faculty of IAHN-TP Palangka Raya to finding out how the effectiveness of the SCL learning approach on learning outcomes and critical thinking skills. The study sample was 36 students as a control group and 39 people as an experimental group. The results of thinking skills test and learning outcomes of students using the TCL and SCL learning approaches were analyzed by statistical paired sample t test, where the thinking skills test score TCL = 59.13 compared to SCL = 74.84. Learning outcomes score with TCL = 53.10 compared to SCL 61.38. So that SCL learning is more effective than TCL learning on thinking skills and student learning outcomes.</p><p class="Abstract"><strong>Abstrak:</strong><em> </em>Pembelajaran merupakan aktivitas antara pendidik, peserta didik dan sumber belajar. Pembelajaran yang tepat memberikan dampak besar bagi peserta didik yaitu mengembangkan kreatifitas dan kemampuan berpikir kritis. Penelitian yang dilakukan menggunakan metode <em>quasi eksperimental</em> di Fakultas Dharma Acarya IAHN-TP Palangka Raya dengan tujuan untuk untuk mengetahui bagaimana efektivitas pendekatan pembelajaran SCL terhadap hasil belajar dan kemampuan berpikir kritis. Sampel penelitian adalah peserta didik sebanyak 36 orang kelompok kontrol dan 39 orang kelompok eksperimen. Hasil uji keterampilan berpikir dan hasil belajar peserta didik menggunakan pendekatan pembelajaran TCL dan SCL dianalisis dengan statistik <em>paired sample t test</em>, dimana skor uji keterampilan berpikir TCL=59,13 dibandingkan SCL=74,84. Skor hasil belajar dengan TCL=53,10 dibandingkan <em>SCL</em> 61,38. Sehingga pembelajaran <em>SCL</em> lebih efektif dibandingkan pembelajaran TCL terhadap keterampilan berpikir dan hasil belajar peserta didik.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></div>