The Effectiveness of Inquiry Lesson-Based Immunity System Module to Empower the Students’ Critical Thinking Skill

Abstract

This research aimed to find out the effectiveness of inquiry lesson (IL)-based immunity system module product to empower the students' critical thinking skill. This study was quasi-experimental research with pretest-posttest control group design nonequivalent. The participant or subject of research consisted of 67 Senior High School students in Kediri in Academic Year of 2016/2017 distributed in two classes: 33 students in the 11 th Natural Science 2 Grade as experiment class and 34 students in the 11 th Natural Science 3 Grade as existing class. The instrument used to collect data on critical thinking skill was essay test. Experiment class was treated using inquiry lesson-based module, and existing class using module commonly used at school. Data analysis employed t-test at significance level with p-value = 0.000 (p<0.05). The gap between pre-and posttest scores was 20.99% for experiment class and 10.76% for existing class. From the result of research, it could be concluded that learning using inquiry lesson (IL)based immunity system in learning process is very significant to empower the students' critical thinking skill.

The Effectiveness of Problem Solving-Based Student Worksheet to Improve Students’ Critical Thinking Skills.

“…The result students' critical thinking skills in the experimental class are higher than those of the control class. This is in line with the research that states that the experimental class has higher critical thinking skills than the control class (Mundilarto & Helmiyanto Ismoyo, 2017;Elisanti et al, 2018). The improvement of students' critical thinking skills in the experimental class is influenced by the student worksheet based on problem solving while that in the control class is influenced by the conventional student worksheet (Qing et al, 2010;Nurita et al, 2017;Siew & Mapeala, 2016).…”

“…In other words, if students' critical thinking skills are high, the cognitive learning outcomes are also high (Fung, 2017;Cargas et al, 2017). Students' low critical thinking skills can be overcome by using learning models that can train higher-order thinking skills, one of which is the use of student worksheet based on problem solving (Gelerstein et al, 2016;Khasanah et al, 2017;Elisanti et al, 2018;Sutarto et al, 2018).…”

Inquiry-Learning-Based module: Improving students’ critical thinking skills in anatomy structure and bacteria physiology materials

“…Acknowledging the crucial role of critical thinking skills, scientists have conducted several researches to find out the methods to improve the skills. Some of them proposed learning model (Husamah et al, 2018;Wenning, 2011), module (Setyoko et al, 2017) which was designed to fulfil the inquiry syntax (Facione, 2011) to achieve better students' critical thinking (Elisanti, E, Sajidan, Prayitno, 2018), instrument (M. D. Wijayanti et al, 2019) to measure students' critical thinking, and so forth. However, low critical thinking skills are still orccured in some places, especially Indonesia.…”

Developing guided inquiry-based ecosystem module to improve students’ critical thinking skills

“…A learning module is a self-contained, formally structured learning experience with a coherent and explicit set of learning outcomes and assessment criteria (Rufii, 2015). Modules can improve critical thinking skills as the results of research by Elisanti, Sajidan, and Prayitno (2018) which states that learning to use modules in the learning process is very significant to empower students' critical thinking skills.…”

“…Guided inquiry-based learning contains learning activities that encourage students to analyze, solve problems based on facts found around them (Rusche & Jason, 2011) and involve the participation of students actively in a series of learning experiences to find answers to problems that exist around them so that students construct their knowledge. Guided inquiry-based learning has a significant and effective in improving students' critical thinking skills (Elisanti et al, 2018;Nisa, Koestiari, Habibbulloh, & Jatmiko, 2018;Zabit, 2010). Guided inquiry-based syntax namely: orientation, designing inquiry (formulating problems, formulating hypotheses, and collecting data) analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and communicating findings (Gengarelly & Abrams, 2009).…”