Preliminary Study: Profile of Critical and Creative Thinking in Undergraduate Students of Biology Education Study Program, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta

Abstract

This research is a preliminary study conducted to describe the profile of critical and creative thinking of undergraduate students of biology education at Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta (YSU). This research was conducted on 59 students who have active status as undergraduate students of the biology education program at YSU. The instrument used was a habit of mind instrument of critical and creative thinking in the form of a Likert scale questionnaire. After obtaining the data, then the data were analyzed descriptively. The results showed that the students' critical thinking and creative thinking scores were in the fair category.

Construction of structural correlation of quantitative literacy and critical thinking, and factors affecting them in students of pre-service biology teachers

“…Saefi et al (2016) reported that most prospective biology teacher students at the State University of Malang, Indonesia, have moderate and low critical thinking. In line with this, Rasis and Paidi (2021) also reported that the critical thinking skills of biology students at Yogyakarta State University Indonesia were also in the moderate category, while Anwar's research results indicated that the critical thinking skills of firstsemester biology students at a number of Indonesian universities still show low indications (Anwar et al, 2020). This demonstrates the need for efforts to improve critical thinking skills in biology education students.…”