Critical Thinking Skill of Students on Food Chain Topic and Its Relation to Their Interest

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the interest of students in science and their capability to think critically on food chain learning on pre-service teacher classroom in an integrative science course. Data were collected using a questionnaire and the essay questions. Rank Spearman correlation test was used to observe this relation. The result showed that there was no significant correlation between the interest of students and their critical thinking on the food chain learning (sig. 0.519) and the relationship of them was weak (r = 0.081). Many factors may influence the critical thinking of the students in food chain learning.

The Course of Biology Learning Methodology: Are Concept-Based Learning and Drill Method Effective in Enhancing Higher-Order Thinking Skills of Students?

“…Furthermore, students were stimulated to improve their higherorder thinking skills when they were exposed by the higher-order thinking skills strategies such as class discussion and dealing the real-world problems to answer the question in the answer sheet [9]. However, higher-order thinking skills, such as critical thinking, are not influenced by their interest in studying the subject [10]. Further information to support the data was the respond of the students which was captured by a psychological respond questionnaire.…”