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Teaching critical thinking (CT) to the prospective teacher has garnered attention for a while, and the teaching conduction to trained it is important to develop. This study aims to find out the effect of teaching implementation of scientific creativity in inquiry learning to promote the CT ability of prospective teachers. Scientific creativity in inquiry learning is apellation as the inquiry creative process (ICP) learning model. This study is a experimental research conducting with the randomized pretest-posttest control group design. Samples were chosen to be treated as experimental and control group. Two sample groups were prospective teacher of physic (PTP) in the faculty of teacher training and education (FKIP), Mataram University, Indonesia. The data of CT ability collected by instrument refer to Ennis-Weir Critical Thinking Essay Test. The data analysis descriptively and statistically were done to process the data of research result. Generally, the results shown that ICP learning model had a significant effect on the improvement of CT ability of prospective teacher of physic. The description of the research findings are described in this article.

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This study aimed to investigating the effect of problem-based learning with char-acter emphasis toward the students’ higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) and characters. This study an experimental research using the single factor independ-ent group design which conducted on secondary school in Mataram - Indonesia. The treatment was given to three independent randomly selected groups, namely Problem-Based Learning with Character Emphasis (PBL-CE), Problem Based-Learning (PBL), and Regular Learning (RL). The data of the students’ HOTS were collected through essay tests and the data of the students’ characters were collected through self-assessment sheets, and analyzed using MANOVA. The results showed that the highest mean score for HOTS was found in the PBL-CE group, its was significantly different with RL group, and not significantly differ-ent with PBL group. Meanwhile, for the average score of student characters, the PBL-CE group scored higher and was significantly different from the other two groups (PBL and RL). The generalization of the study results has shown that there is an effect of problem-based learning with character emphasis on students' higher order thinking skills and character.

This study aim to explore the effects of presenting anomalous data on improving student’s critical thinking ability. This study is an experimental research conducting on one-group pretest-posttest design. Purposive sampling was used in this study, where one class group was used as a sample of the study, namely 36 students of senior high school at MA Hidayaturrahmah NW Menggala, North Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. The data of CT ability collected by instrument refer to Ennis-Weir Critical Thinking Essay Test. The data analysis descriptively and statistically were done to process the data of research. Path analysis was used to evaluate the contribution of presenting anomalous data on improving student’s critical thinking ability. The results of this study indicate that the presenting anomalous data at initial learning have an effect and contribute on improving student’s critical thinking ability. Further reviews are described in this article.